Business Development
Onega Ulanova
After the graduation, Onega joined the American Petroleum Institute as a Lead Auditor.
In search of an entrepreneurial environment, she co-founded the LA New Product Development Team to combine her love for innovation, brand development and people.
How this role fits the work
LA NPDT runs as one team rather than a chain of vendors. Research, industrial design, mechanical and electronic engineering, prototyping and the manufacturing hand-off all happen inside the same group, so a decision made during concept design is carried by the people who will later have to build the part — and challenged early if it will not survive tooling.
In practice that means every project has a named lead who stays with it from the first call to the final file release. You are not reintroduced to a new team at each stage, and the person who understands why a wall thickness or a component choice was made is still reachable when a factory asks about it six months later.
The team works from Ruston, Louisiana, entirely within the United States. Engineering hours land in the same time zone as most of our clients, prototypes ship domestically, and questions about intellectual property are answered under US law rather than through an offshore intermediary.
Have a product idea to discuss?
Tell us what you are building and we will reply within one business day.