Gus Olympidis
CEO | Family Express
Kalen Frese
Food Service Director | Warrenton Oil Co.
Margaret Dinneny
Vice President, Chief People Officer | Wawa Inc. Margaret is the Vice President, Chief People Officer for Wawa, a chain of more than 800 convenience stores located in six states across the eastern United States and the District of Columbia. Wawa is known for their fresh food selection, award winning […]
Paul Crozier
Category Manager for Cigarettes & Tobacco | Sheetz Inc.
Richard Crone
CEO and Founder | Crone Consulting LLC Richard K. Crone leads Crone Consulting LLC, helping financial institutions, billers, merchants, payment networks, processors, start-ups and investors transform payments from a cost of business to revenue-producing new lines of business. In his 30-year career in financial services, he has focused on harnessing […]
Jon Cox
Senior Director of Food & Beverage | GetGo Jon Cox began his food journey working in a grocery store through high school and college. His varied supermarket experiences brought him to Giant Eagle Inc. five years ago, where he’s spent the past 18 months interrupting the convenience store space by […]
David Caruso
Director | Stewart’s Shops President | Lakeside Business Advisors David Caruso retired April in 2018 as Senior Vice President for Stewart’s Shops. Throughout his 32-year career with Stewart’s he was instrumental in its development into one of the nation’s largest family and employee owned convenience store chains. He remains on […]
Jim Calvin
President | New York Association of Convenience Stores For the past 20 years, Jim Calvin has been President of the New York Association of Convenience Stores (NYACS), an award-winning trade organization representing 8,500 neighborhood convenience stores statewide. Founded in 1986, NYACS is a private, not-for-profit trade association dedicated to unifying, […]
Tom Briant
Executive Director | National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO) For the past twenty-nine years, Tom Briant has concentrated his efforts on retail, wholesale, and manufacturer tobacco-related issues on the local, state and federal levels. Since the National Association of Tobacco Outlets was formed in 2001, Tom has served as NATO’s […]
Joy Almekies
Director of Food Services | Global Partners