CHICAGO -- NRC Realty & Capital Advisors LLC has announced that two convenience store industry professionals have joined the firm as managing directors.
Jeff Kramer brings to NRC more than 30 years of experience in petroleum and convenience store retailing, as well as extensive experience in refining, wholesaling and distribution. Thomas H. Wilky similarly has nearly 30 years of marketing, operations and leadership experience, most recently with Southwest Pacific Partners, an investment advisory and marketing consulting firm.
Both Wilky and Kramer will focus primarily on new-business development.
"We are extremely pleased to have both of these well respected industry professionals join NRC," said Dennis Ruben, executive managing director. "Given their combined knowledge of real estate, finance, the petroleum retail and convenience store industries, and their relationships with people in these industries, we believe they will add significant value both to NRC and to our clients and prospective clients."
Wilky's career has taken him through several corporate engagements, more than 15 years of which involved providing marketing and business consulting services to a client base in a broad range of industries, including multi-branch retail, convenience store, hospitality, consumer products, energy, and telecommunications.
His most recent engagement was as founder of Southwest Pacific Partners, an investment advisory and marketing consulting firm which was formed to make strategic investments and facilitate financial transactions in the retail convenience store, energy and the outdoor apparel industries. His business consulting practice has spanned more than 25 years, and he has provided marketing consulting and financial services to companies such as Gentry Capital Advisors, Koch Industries/Ventures and Giant Industries Inc. in the energy and retail convenience store space.
Wilky began his career in the hospitality industry where, as director of marketing for Motel 6 LLP, he was instrumental in repositioning this national lodging company as the director of marketing and was responsible for directing and implementing the Tom Bodett national advertising campaign.
Kramer is known in the petroleum marketing and convenience store industries both through his management positions and his longstanding active membership in the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) and the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America (SIGMA), having served on the board of SIGMA. His most recent experience has been as managing member and CEO of Prima Marketing LLC, owner and operator of 89 7-Eleven convenience stores in the eastern United States. Most of these locations were sold to 7-Eleven in 2012, with the assistance of NRC. Kramer's background in refining, wholesale and distribution came at Total Petroleum and as CEO at Frontier Refining.
Chicago-based NRC Realty & Capital Advisors provides real estate and financial advisory services to the convenience store and petroleum industries and specializes in the accelerated sale of commercial and residential real estate. NRC’s breadth of experience in the convenience-store arena includes portfolio evaluation and analysis; refinancing, recapitalization and sale-leaseback financing options; and merger and acquisition advisory services.
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