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Shameek Konar serves as Pilot Company’s chief executive officer. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Pilot Company is the 10th largest privately held company in the United States and employs 28,000 team members. Founded in 1958, Pilot Company has grown to become one of the leading suppliers of fuel and is the largest operator of travel centers in North America. The company supplies more than 11 billion gallons of fuel per year and has an industry-leading network of more than 1,000 fueling locations. With the third largest tanker fleet in North America, Pilot Company also provides end-to-end logistics solutions, clean and crude hauling, and water disposal in the nation’s busiest basins. Shameek previously served as Pilot Company’s chief strategy officer, leading the company’s energy division, including business and asset development, supply, distribution and sales. His leadership was instrumental in growing Pilot Company’s energy business, innovating the platform and executing several acquisitions since his tenure at Pilot Company began in 2017. Prior to joining Pilot Company, Shameek served as chief investment officer and executive committee member at Castleton Commodities International and Mercuria Energy Trading in Houston. He oversaw mergers, acquisitions and operations of physical assets across the firm’s commodities merchant platform spanning Asia, the Americas, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He also was managing director and global co-head of commodities principal investments at Goldman Sachs, where he focused on growing the company’s physical natural gas and crude oil businesses. Shameek served in several senior roles at Constellation Energy, including senior vice president of corporate strategy and development. Shameek earned a Ph.D. in economics and finance from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and a Bachelor of Arts in economics and mathematics from St. Stephen’s College in India.

Guidara was previously with Au Bon Pain for five years. Guidara led an extraordinary turnaround of the Au Bon Pain business through a chain-wide remodel program, expanded menu offerings and upgrades to the food and operational systems. The ''new Au Bon Pain'' harkens back to the concept's French roots with an urban marketplace format, abundant displays of food, and sophisticated stylish décor. Guidara joined Au Bon Pain from the Wolfgang Puck Food Company, a national, multi-concept food service organization, where he served as President and CEO from 1996. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing the operations of both the restaurant and packaged food divisions of the company. Guidara successfully doubled the size of the chef-driven company during his tenure. In his ten years as President of the Restaurant Division of Restaurant Associates in New York, the post he held prior to joining the Wolfgang Puck Food Company, Guidara developed and managed a host of fine dining and foodservice concepts including Savories, The Sea Grill, Tropica and Café Centro. In addition, Guidara oversaw dining services for such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House and the United Nations, and for corporate clients that included Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Frank Guidara received a BS in Restaurant and Hotel Management in 1968 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Guidara serves as an advisor on the UMass HTM Board (Hospitality and Tourism Management), a trustee for the Boston Children's Museum, a director for the National Restaurant Association, a director for the Massachusetts Restaurant Association and a member of the Nutrition Roundtable for the Harvard School of Public Health.