As an evangelist for green technologies, life for Marie-France Van Heel, known as Frankie, is frequently ‘organised chaos’.
Formerly a high-flying brand consultant, the Dutch-born 56-year-old says she came on board as a senior executive at a thriving Manchester electric car start-up after its growth prospects had been ‘cemented’ by a lucrative local authority deal.
Hundreds of public EV chargers in the city and beyond now bear the appropriately green livery of the fast-growing firm, Be.EV.
But it is the crucial seven-year contract awarded to the business – worth £5.4 million to date – which has led to renewed scrutiny over the past
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