The SIGMA Nominating Committee officially offers this slate of Membership Nominations for SIGMA’s Board of Directors. Members nominated to serve three-year terms include Doug Hartley, President, The Hartley Company, Cambridge, Ohio; Jeff Lykins, President & CEO, Lykins Energy Solutions, Milford, Ohio; Max McBrayer, Chief Supply Officer, RaceTrac Petroleum, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. and Brian Young, Vice President, Young Oil, Inc., Piedmont, Ala.
The committee also nominated the following officers: Tom Gresham, President & CEO of Double Quick, Inc. Indianola, Miss., for SIGMA President; David Baker, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Warrenton Oil Company, Warrenton, Mo., for SIGMA First Vice President; William Bradford Puryear, General Counsel of Mansfield Systems, Gainesville, Ga. for SIGMA Second Vice President; and David Collins, Vice President of Wilson Fuel Co., Ltd. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for SIGMA Secretary-Treasurer. The Board of Directors will be confirmed by a membership vote on November 12, 2014, at the Annual Business Meeting in Nashville, Tenn.

Tom Schmidt, Executive Chairman of the Board of U.S. Venture, Inc. in Appleton, Wis., will serve as SIGMA’s Immediate Past-President.

Other continuing Board members include Robert Coleman, President, Coleman Oil Company, Lewiston, Idaho; Erin Graziosi, Vice President of Supply & Transportation, Robinson Oil Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif.; Richard Guttman, President, Guttman Energy, Inc., Belle Vernon, Pa.; David Hutchinson, President, Hutchinson Oil Company, Elk City, Okla.; Jeffrey LeBeouf, President, E.R. Vine, Inc., Ceres, Calif.; Jack Pester, Chairman, Pester Marketing Company, Houston, Texas; Kerry Oliver, SVP, Land N. America & President, CarterEnergy, World Fuel Services, Inc., Overland Park, Kan.; and Joseph Zietlow, Petroleum Buyer, Kwik Trip, Inc., Lacrosse, Wis.

SIGMA extends its sincere thanks to these individuals for contributing their time, money, and expertise to better the association.