Frank Gleeson Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at Empire State Bank. Everything on their to-do list were the things I was good at: computerisation, branding, training, category management.

We’ve caused enough disruption of our own but in doing so, we’ve never lost sight of our customers: Exceeding their expectations before they even know what they need and continuing to be innovators in our stores.”Having started his convenience store career with Statoil Ireland and then Topaz Energy Group, Gleeson joined Aramark in 2014 and is now the president of the company’s Northern Europe operations, leading operations of Aramark’s convenience stores in hospitals, universities, leisure spots, and off highways like most traditional convenience stores today.“In Northern Europe alone, we serve over one million meals a day,” said Gleeson of Aramark’s foodservice offer, which he describes as “foodvenience” in the company’s innovative food hall concepts.Whether it’s Aramark Northern Europe changing food concepts at its food halls, other convenience retailers throughout the world continue to innovate and transform their operations.Copyright © 2018.

He uses social media very effectively to promote his recipes, his menus and his ideas around sugar, salt and health," he says.Gleeson says the partnership is based on similar values around healthy food and on Aramark's ability to have access to many sectors and places where Oliver could not open restaurants.

The 2018 NACS Show took place October 7-10 in Las Vegas. "Who wouldn't want to run Avoca?" It was an amazing place to work. So when I go to a client who wants a cafe I can give them any of the branded concepts - Starbucks, Costa, Nero or concepts we have already developed internally or that we can develop just for them.

“It’s a long way from my home in Dublin, Ireland, to Las Vegas” for the 2018 NACS Show, said Gleeson, who accepted the gavel to become the new NACS Chairman during the conference’s closing general session from Joe Sheetz, president and CEO of Altoona, Pennsylvania-based Sheetz Inc., a convenience retail company with more than 575 stores in six U.S. states.Gleeson began his retail career as a teenager in his family’s general goods store in Ireland, selling everything from clothing to food, and progressing into coffee shops and restaurants.


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Prior to Aramark, he served as vice president of retail for Statoil Ireland, and in 2005 became the retail director for Topaz Energy Group, the largest importer and distributor of transport fuel in Ireland.

Stephen resides in North County Dublin with his wife and 2 children.As part of a major growth plan, Carolyn is the newest member to join Aramark’s leadership team, as Marketing Director for Northern Europe.

He joined Aramark in 2007 from Delaware North having played a pivotal role in launching the New National Stadium at Wembley in his capacity as Retail Director.He has provided executive leadership to our Front Line teams as the Managing Director of our UK Defence Business, then latterly as a Regional Managing Director, before being promoted in 2018 to Managing Director Food Services UK.

"In 2008, the Topaz brand didn't exist and we worked with an American company to roll it out. He helped Statoil put the first American-style convenience store into Ireland at its Bray forecourt.