Katie Boozer
Marketing Manager

Katie Boozer grew up in Chapin, South Carolina and went to college at Clemson University, where she earned a BA in Early Childhood Education. After graduation in June 2005, Katie joined the Ruff & Tuff team as a sales representative. Currently, she is the marketing manager for RTEV and is still involved in many other aspects of the company. Katie now resides in Irmo, South Carolina with her husband, Chad and their yellow lab, Belle. She enjoys playing softball, tennis, and gardening in her spare time.

Charles Hebert
Vice President of Sales

Louisiana native Charles Hebert attended Southeastern Louisiana University on a football scholarship and received a BA in Marketing in 1985. In 1986 he started a custom wholesale framing business that marketed to local furniture stores in Louisiana, and evolved that into becoming one of the largest producers of custom artwork in the Southeast.

From 1993 to1999 Charles worked in the construction business for several companies handling their marketing and advertising, and in 2000 became the owner/operator of a construction remodeling company.
In 2004, Charles opened a stand alone golf car and accessory business in Baton Rouge called Cart Dynamics. A year later he bought his first Ruff & Tuff vehicle and became a dealer. Shortly thereafter, his success as a dealer led him to become first Ruff & Tuff Distributor in the country. In 2006, Charles secured the national distribution rights for Ruff & Tuff. In 2007, his company merged with Ruff & Tuff, he became the Vice President of Sales.

Bo Huff
President

Bo Huff has worked 21 years in the electric car industry. After refurbishing used golf carts as a lucrative hobby, he launched a retail store, The Golf Car Center in Columbia, South Carolina. It was one of the first stand-alone retail golf car sales facilities in the country, and a year later it became an E-Z-GO dealership.  During this time he came to believe that there was a better way to make golf carts and accessories than what the three major producers were offering. He parlayed that belief with some relationships in China to develop the first Ruff and Tuff branded line of aftermarket “bolt on” accessories for the major cart manufacturers in 2000.

In 2005, after five years of design and testing, Bo introduced the first line of Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles, with substantially better power and quality than the competition. Bo is currently the president of RTEV.

Carren Hutto
Sales Manager

Carren Hutto grew up in the rural town of McBee, South Carolina. For as long as she can remember she worked on her family’s peach farm, McLeod Farms (www.macspride.com). Carren graduated from the College of Charleston in 2003 with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a Concentration in Marketing. Before joining RTEV in 2006, she served in a variety of sales, marketing, and agri-tourism positions. Since joining the RTEV team, she has worked in several areas, and currently she is the RTEV sales manager focusing on accessory sales and LSV certification.

In her spare time, Carren enjoys going back to her family’s farm and occasionally helping out. Carren also likes spending time with her husband, Jason, their dog, Cooper, family and friends. She also loves the outdoors, especially fishing and working in the yard.

Jill Lominick
Logistics Manager

Jill Lominick is originally from Newberry, South Carolina, a small town outside of Columbia. She graduated from the University of South Carolina with a BS in Sports & Entertainment Management in 2002. That same fall Jill started working for Bo Huff at his retail store, The Golf Car Center in sales, and began learning about the golf car industry. In early 2003 she moved to Ruff & Tuff and worked in all aspects of the business. Jill is currently the logistics manager for the Ruff & Tuff team. Jill lives in Irmo, South Carolina, enjoys watching Gamecock football, and spending time with family, friends & her Jack Russell Terrier, Petey.

Mike McQuary
CEO

McQ is a partner in the merchant banking firm of Ellis, McQuary, Stanley and Associates www.ellismcqstanley. Prior to joining RTEV, McQ was focused on the music business as the CEO of Brash Music www.brashmusic.com. Before that he was the president of the ISP EarthLink after its merger with MindSpring in February 2000. McQ developed the concept behind MindSpring with Charles Brewer, and was the president and COO of MindSpring. Prior to MindSpring, McQ served for 9 years in a variety of sales, marketing, operations, and management positions with a division of Mobil Corporation.

McQ was on the varsity wrestling team at the University of Virginia and managed to receive a bachelor's degree in psychology while missing few (if any) parties. He did the nights and weekends thing to get a masters degree in business administration from Pepperdine University.
McQ serves on the Board of Governors for the Atlanta chapter of the Recording Academy (NARAS, also known as The Grammys), is on the Board of Inner Strength - an at risk youth education program, and the Chastain Park Conservancy Advisory Board.

Dara Williams
Controller

Dara Williams grew up in Rock Hill, South Carolina.  She graduated in 2003 from Clemson University with BS in Accounting and graduated from the Masters of Accountancy program at Clemson in the summer of 2004.  After graduate school, Dara worked for 3 years as an external auditor for Grant Thornton, an international public accounting firm.  She passed the CPA exam in January 2005.  In the fall of 2007, Dara joined RTEV as the Controller performing the Company’s accounting and human resource functions.  She currently lives in Columbia, South Carolina with her husband, Joey.  In her spare time, Dara enjoys watching Clemson football, decorating/remodeling her home, and spending time with her family and friends.

Preston Wrenn
VP Engineering & Product Development

Before joining RTEV, Preston Wrenn was involved in the marine industry as the principal of Tidewater Boats (www.Tidewaterboats.net).  He ran the company from start up through the ramp up to a production level of eight boats per week prior to selling his interest in August 2006. Prior to Tidewater Boats, he worked in various roles in the manufacturing industry for 15 years, including jobs in sales, management and application solutions. While committing his collegiate life to the ‘Land of the Midnight Sun’ (Lee Hall) Preston managed to secure a Bachelor of Science degree in Design from Clemson University.

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