AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY VETERAN GEORGE ARRANTS JOINS NGVi

Las Vegas, NV – Natural Gas Vehicle Institute (NGVi) is pleased to announce the addition of George Arrants to the company’s Customer Solutions team. Arrants has over 20 years of experience in the automotive industry as both a business program developer and instructor. He holds degrees in automotive technology, business management and marketing and is an ASE Master Certified technician. As Customer Solutions Manager at NGVi, Arrants will be responsible for developing partnerships with national and major fleet accounts, truck manufacturers and distributors, and other industry suppliers. Arrants has a long and impressive career in the automotive industry. Since 2004, he has served as the voluntary Chair for SuperTech, the American Trucking Association Technology and Maintenance Council’s prestigious annual national technician skills competition. He will continue in that role after joining NGVi. In his tenure at Snap-on Tools, Arrants developed collaborations that led to industry certification for hundreds of schools. He served on the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF) board of trustees and was Snap-on’s liaison to Automotive Youth Educational Systems (AYES), securing funding and developing programs that generated a pipeline of entry-level technicians from over 1,000 schools for the OEM dealer network. As Vice President of Industry Relations for Corinthian Colleges, Arrants’ main focus was on program partnership development with BMW, Ducati, Triumph and Volvo/Mack. “George brings specific knowledge and extensive experience in creating and building industry partnerships to our company,” said Leo Thomason, Executive Director of NGVi. “We are confident his expertise will keep NGVi at the forefront of training in the natural gas vehicle industry.” As a guest of the government of Oman, Arrants evaluated the automotive programs in that country and recommended improvements. He also worked closely with U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration under President George W. Bush where he led the automotive strategic development team that advised the agency’s High Growth Job Training Initiative. In addition, he was selected by the agency to help improve the curriculum and training facilities of nationwide Job Corps programs in automotive services.  Rounding out his technical and business development experience, Arrants also is the co-author of the book “Preparing for NATEF/ASE Evaluation.” ### ABOUT NGVi: NGVi is North America’s leading provider of technical consulting and training on natural gas vehicles and fueling technologies. Established in 1989, NGVi has worked with hundreds of companies and government agencies throughout the U.S. and worldwide to help successfully integrate natural gas into their transportation mix. NGVi’s training team is comprised of CSA and ASE certified instructors, each with more than 20 years’ experience in technical consulting and training on natural gas vehicles and fueling.