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Alera Group

In the business of increasing life expectancy through employee benefits.
Alera Group is your dedicated partner committed to helping you unlock the full potential of your employee benefits program, driving success for both your shareholders and your employees.

BandyWorks

Improve C-Store Operations.
BandyWorks solutions provide c-store operations improvement in three focus tracks – Growth, Control, and Tobacco. We value simple, direct, motivating, and impactful insights.

Capital One

Convenience & Gas Banking
Leverage the resources of a Top 10 Commercial Bank that gives you custom solutions you can bank on—and a dedicated team that knows your industry.

FleetPanda

Fuel dispatch software built by fuel distributors, for fuel distributors.
Fuel dispatch software for fuel marketers who want to digitize operations and automate busywork to get paid faster and scale their operations in order to hit their growth goals. It's cloud & smartphone based, customizable, integrates with your existing tech stack and brings all your business lines into 1 platform.

J & J Gaming

Leader in Distributed Gaming.
J&J Gaming, including its subsidiaries and affiliates, is the largest distributed gaming operator in the United States. We provide gaming-as-a-service to non-casino locations in various regulated jurisdictions.

Marsh McLennan Agency

Leader in risk, strategy and people.
Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) provides business insurance, employee health & benefits, retirement, and private client insurance solutions to businesses and individuals.

Matrix Capital Markets Group

M&A, Capital Raising and Valuation Advisory.
Matrix’s Downstream Energy & Convenience Retail Investment Banking Group is recognized as the national leader in providing advisory services to companies in the convenience retailing, petroleum marketing, motor fuels, propane, heating oil and lubricants distribution, petroleum logistics, terminaling and car wash services industries.

McClaskey Excellence Institute

Take Operations to the Next Level.
Your products are not right because your employees are not consistently following your processes? Your processes need upgrading? Your employee turnover is too high? Solve these problems through our proven path to extraordinary operations.

Paragon Solutions

Design Done Right.
Since 1986, Paragon Solutions has transformed convenience retail with award-winning designs through consulting, integrating strategic planning, innovative design, and branding to create customer-focused environments that drive success and build loyalty.

PIX Payments

Better Payments for the Petroleum Industry.
PIX is a payment technology company that serves Oil & Gas marketers and convenience stores. Our customers benefit from reduced fees, clean and clear reporting, and caring support for their processing needs.

Powerhouse

The Power of Price Protection.
POWERHOUSE works with jobbers, retailers, and end-users to help them protect profit margins and grow their businesses by designing and implementing hedging strategies.

ROC Associates

Aligning your People and Technology so you can Perform.
We help you make technology and operational improvements, from mobile apps to merchandising and everything in between. And we do it in a way that leaves your business more aligned and ready to perform!

RowLogic

Apps and Analytics for Energy Marketers.
At RowLogic, we don't just connect people, process, and data. We engage, mobilize, and empower them so that your organization is fueled with apps for peak performance.

Strategies

Shift. Focus. Evolve. Business continuity. Lasting liquidity. Your legacy.
Hundreds of companies have entrusted Strategies with guiding their business growth, navigating succession, preserving and protecting wealth, and safeguarding relationships for the future. We work in close partnership with family-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and partnerships.

The Pitts Group

Teaming Up to Refine and Improve Petroleum Company’s Credit Department Strategies.
The Pitts Group works with petroleum companies on step-by-step processes to refine and improve credit processes impacting the accounts receivable asset class. Results come from amending processes and policy, uncovering blind spots, changing antiquated systems, and training credit staff.

Winthrop & Weinstine

Turn Energy into Outcomes.
Winthrop & Weinstine offers a comprehensive suite of legal services to owners, distributors, and others in the downstream energy industry. Our extensive industry knowledge and depth of experience in the multi-unit retail and fuel distribution spaces gives us a full appreciation of the issues facing your business and the insight to resolve them quickly.