MEDIA ADVISORY

ATTN: NEWS/BUSINESS EDITORS

WHAT:    Women’s Electric Vehicle Forum

Theme:     She’s In Charge (see flyer attached)

Hosted by JPS Foundation in collaboration with IDB

WHO:   – Kelly Tomblin, Keynote Speaker, President & CEO – El  Paso Electric, former President & CEO of JPS

– Zahra Oliphant, Director – Corporate Planning &  Performance Management, Ministry of Science,  Energy & Technology

–Aradhana Gahlaut, Program Associate – Rocky Mountain Institute

–Eleanor Jones, Chairman and CEO – Environmental Solutions

–Ethnie Miller Simpson – President – Women Entrepreneurs Network of the Caribbean

–Jacqueline Stewart Lechler, Director – Stewarts Auto Sales

BACKGROUND:     

Electric Vehicles are not only growing in popularity – they may one day become the dominant vehicle type – given that manufacturers are increasingly going in this direction. This forum is designed to help prepare for it, examine opportunities for women entrepreneurs, and help them navigate in a male dominated sector.