CrossAmerica Partners LP has named Maura Topper as its new president and CEO, effective immediately, the fuel distributor and convenience-store operator said on Monday.
Topper (pictured above), who previously served as CFO, succeeds Charles Nifong, who has served as president and CEO of Allentown, Pennsylvania-based CrossAmerica since Nov. 19, 2019.
Nifong will move to the executive management team of Dunne Manning Holdings LLC, which is an affiliate of the general partner and of related entities controlled by Joseph V. Topper, Jr., founder of CrossAmerica and chairman of the board.
“I appreciate the trust that the board has placed in me to lead CrossAmerica as its president and CEO,” Topper said. “I sincerely thank Charles for his leadership, and for his mentorship of me and our entire team.”
Before her appointment as president and CEO of CrossAmerica, Topper had served as its CFO since Aug. 11, 2021. From 2014 to her appointment as CFO, she was vice president and CFO of Dunne Manning.
She served as a member of the board from the partnership’s initial public offering in 2012 until October of 2014, and again from November of 2019 to the present.
Jonathan E. Benfield, chief accounting officer of the partnership’s subsidiary entities, has been appointed as interim CFO of CrossAmerica, effectively Monday.
- CrossAmerica is No. 24 on CSP’s 2025 Top 202 ranking of U.S. c-store chains by store count.
CrossAmerica is a leading wholesale distributor of motor fuels, convenience-store operator, and owner and lessee of real estate used in the retail distribution of motor fuels. Formed in 2012, CrossAmerica Partners is a distributor of branded and unbranded petroleum for motor vehicles in the United States and distributes fuel to approximately 1,600 locations and owns or leases approximately 1,000 sites.
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