ATLANTA – NACS announced the election of its 2013-14 Executive Committee during its Board of Directors meeting at the NACS Show in Atlanta.

Brad Call, general counsel and executive vice president of adventure culture at Utah-based Maverik Inc., was named the association's 2013-14 chairman of the board. Call also chairs the NACS Executive Committee, which provides strategic direction and financial oversight to the association.

Also named to the NACS Executive Committee were the following NACS retail members:

• NACS Vice Chairman-Treasurer: Steve Loehr, vice president of operations support at LaCrosse, Wisconsin-based Kwik Trip Inc.;
• NACS Vice Chairman of Government Relations and of NACSPAC: Peter Tedeschi, president and CEO at Rockland, Massachusetts-based Tedeschi Food Shops;
• NACS Vice Chairman of Convention: Jack Kofdarali, president at Corona, California-based J&T Management Inc.;
• NACS Vice Chairman of Research: Joseph Sheetz, president and CEO at Altoona, Pennsylvania-based Sheetz Inc.;
• NACS Vice Chairman of Member Services: Rahim Budhwani, CEO at Hoover, Alabama-based 6040 LLC;
• NACS Vice Chairman of International: Frank Gleeson, retail director at Dublin, Ireland-based Topaz Energy Group Limited; and
• NACS Vice Chairman: Tony Kenney, president, at Enon, Ohio-based Speedway LLC

Also on the NACS Executive Committee are 2012-13 NACS Chairman Dave Carpenter, president and CEO at J.D. Carpenter Companies Inc. (Urbandale, IA), and 2011-12 NACS Chairman Tom Robinson, president of Robinson Oil Corp. (Santa Clara, CA).

The NACS Show, which ran through Oct. 15 at the Georgia World Congress Center, is ranked as the 47th largest trade show in the United States and is ranked fourth in the country for attracting attendees responsible for buying plans. More than 23,000 attendees from 60-plus countries were at the NACS Show, which featured three days of general sessions, more than 50 educational sessions and 1,050 exhibiting companies in a 392,000 net-square-foot exposition.