CONVENTIONS: Executive Leadership Conference, January 22-25, 2006
Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, Colorado

Beaver Run Resort is a ski-in ski-out facility with 500 guest rooms.

SIGMA, National Petroleum News (NPN) and Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) will team up to present the 2006 Executive Leadership Conference at Winter Management (formerly known as the Winter Management Conference) in Breckenridge, Colorado, January 22-25. This conference, the first of 2006, is your opportunity to learn amongst industry leaders and prepare for the issues you’ll face in the year ahead.

“We’re keeping all of the fun of the Winter Management Conference,” said Executive Vice President Kenneth Doyle, “while enhancing the education by collaborating with NPN and OPIS to deliver a better meeting for marketer leadership.”

Maintaining industry tradition, this meeting is open to a broad-based group within the petroleum industry and will include SIGMA’s signatures: education, networking and lively social events. Educational sessions will include an Executive Roundtable series, as well as OPIS-, NPN- and SIGMA-branded workshops on everything from “closely-held” business relations to strategy fundamentals that will carry your business through a new year.

Following last year’s popular format, Executive Roundtable participants will tell you how they run their business and how their business segment affects the overall petroleum industry. These informative and interactive sessions are your opportunity to learn how industry segment’s business strategies affect you and your business most!

Confirmed executives include:
• Gilbarco Veeder-Root President, Martin Gafinowitz.
• Hot Stuff Foods (formerly Orion), President/CEO Des Hague.
• Royal Buying Group, President/CEO Mike Zielinski.
• Ryko Manufacturing Co., President Scott Clawson.
• VeraSun CEO, Don Endres.

“We’re networking with the executives at major companies and we’re providing educational sessions that support their strategic goals for the year,” said Todd Phillips, President of Fuel Managers, Inc., and Executive Leadership Conference at Winter Management chairman. “We think the new conference name reflects the focus of the conference — an emphasis on excellence and education through a new collaborative effort among the industry’s best organizations and publications.”

Other confirmed educational workshops include:

• The U.S. retail market is undergoing some very dynamic changes that Energy Analysts International’s (EAI) President Joe Leto will address during two educational workshops. First, “Retail & Hypermarts Dynamics” will tackle continued advancements in the Hypermarts fuel retailing and other ancillary businesses. Second, “Refining, Logistics and Markets: The New Era” will address the U.S. reliance on foreign crude and product supply. Domestic refining is running at maximum capacity and foreign markets are expanding at a rate that will compete for U.S. incremental supply sources.

• Are you a third-, fourth- or fifth-generation marketer? Dr. Mark Green, Director for the Austin Family Business Program at Oregon State University, will discuss how to transition your family business into an effective closely-held business.

The Executive Leadership Conference at Winter Management will take place at the Beaver Run Resort, a ski-in ski-out facility with 500 guest rooms, which range from single hotel rooms to four-bedroom condos with full kitchenettes. Check out its facilities online.

Fast Facts

Event: 2006 Executive Leadership Conference at Winter Management

Dates: January 22-25

Hotel: Beaver Run Resort

Location: Breckenridge, Colo.