RRMEA March Meeting

Red River Manufacturers & Engineers Association was created to elevate, promote, and celebrate manufacturing and engineering by providing advocacy, education, networking and programs to enhance the success of members and their communities.

RRMEA Meeting on March 28! Presentation by Mike Henke, Tour of Vanna Adventure Vans. Come and check out their new facility in West Fargo. 

Strategies to retain employees continue to change. The new Keys to Retention will be shared in this presentation, along with strategies for implementation. Explore why "pay" did not make the list, understand why you think it should, and learn how pay really affects retention. Hear why the relationship to the immediate supervisor is very important. Learn surprising information about employees wanting to stay with the right employer, and how to keep employees from all generations! 

About the Speaker: Mike Henke

Vanna builds custom camper vans that are entirely off-grid functional and true four-season operational. Using the most advanced systems on the market, giving you true four-season use, full off-grid functionality, and purpose-built vehicles. Core technologies include Victron Energy power systems, and Eberspaecher Airtronic & Hydronic heaters.

Vanna works with customers in the design process to craft the perfect van for their use, lifestyle, and budget. Vanna was founded in November 2020 in Moorhead, Minnesota, by North Dakota natives Ben Gleason & Jason Gilbraith and are currently based out of West Fargo, ND. 

STORY
Jason Gilbraith spent years researching off-grid and four-season camper van technology before building his own. He lived full-time out of his Mercedes Sprinter in Colorado, while running his drone videography company out of the van, and skiing the Rocky Mountains.

It was in February 2020, at a snow-kiting event in Garrison, MN, that Ben Gleason first saw Jason’s van winter camping on the middle of a lake in -20 degrees actual temp. With Gilbraith’s technical expertise and Gleason’s business acumen, Vanna Adventure Vans was launched with the goal of building the next generation of camper vans and bringing the worlds most advanced off-grid technology to the mobility industry and camper van market.