NETWORK
EV Professional Network is a consortium of the very best EV talent available for short to long term consulting and contract assignments. Our network is vast with decades of experience working with a multitude of low-volume, exotic and EV companies throughout the world. Our team can offer everything for the startup alternative-fuel company from legal and government certification requirements to financial and engineering expertise.
The business models that we have created will ease the worry and financial burden of startup companies or those wishing to launch new products in the alternative fuel vehicle industry. We accomplish this by presenting you with a well thought out proposal and by working within your means. Before you begin creating a team to bring your products to market, consider contacting EV Professional Network for a no-obligation proposal.
The founding executive members keep up with the latest US federal and state laws as well as news and developments in the industry globally and will guide your company throughout product development and launch. All members are located within the continental US and are available for consulting and contractual work anywhere in the US and abroad.
Heading up EV Professional Network is:
VICKI NORTHRUP
Ms. Northrup has over fifteen years experience in the automotive, recreational product and marine industries in the United States and over twenty years in the sales, advertising and marketing fields. Her focus has been primarily in the electric vehicle field, launching start-up companies for both low speed and highway-capable EVs. She is credited for the success of the Clean Commute Program, a joint effort between Ford Motor Company and several New York state agencies from 2001-2004, which resulted in the largest EV project of its day in the US. Ms. Northrup has extensive knowledge and training of dealership practices, consumer behavior, trends, public relations and media, marketing and advertising and sales. She has held numerous positions with the American Advertising Federation, including President, in Florida.
Her extensive career background encompasses small startup and large corporations in both field sales and research laboratory environments, along with dealership and consumer-facing functions. Her strengths lie in results-oriented and fiscally-responsible practices, competitive research, spearheading trade and consumer shows and developing distribution, marketing and public relations plans.
Ms. Northrup is a gifted writer and speaker and has received numerous awards for her work in advertising as well as receiving the Henry Ford Operational Excellence Award in 2006. She sits on several boards and is an active member of many Clean Cities organizations throughout the United States as well as a member of the Electric Automobile Association and the National Defense Transportation Association. She graduated magna cum laude from both Barry University in Miami, Florida as well as her MBA from Baker College in Michigan. Ms. Northrup's consulting company is based in Central Florida.
The remaining members are located across the US and specialize in every aspect of alternative fueled vehicles. All members bring a plethora of experience and high-level contacts to the table. All members maintain the highest integrity and conscientious work ethic.
Specialties:
• Business Plans
• Financial Guidance
• Strategy
• Sales
• Marketing
• Public Relations
• Events/Shows
• Copywriting
• Management, senior level and middle-management
• Electrical Engineering
• Battery Configuration Consulting
• Supplier recommendations
• Service procedures
• Service Manuals
• Federal and State Certification
• Guidance approaching VCs or Economic Development Councils for funding including preparing presentations
• Homologation to meet FMVSS in the US
Contact Vicki Northrup at vnorthrup@comcast.net.