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Mr. Wetzel has been Senior Vice President, Lubricants, of the Company and the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company’s subsidiary, H & W Petroleum Company, Inc. (H & W), since the acquisition of H & W in October 2005. Prior to that time and since 1980, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of H & W, of which he was also the co-founder in 1974. Under Mr. Wetzel’s leadership, H & W came to be recognized as one of the top ten distributors in the ExxonMobil (Lubricant) Network of Distributors. From 1974 to 1980, he served in various operating, sales and management positions with H & W. From 1966 to 1974, Mr. Wetzel served in positions of increasing responsibility with Harkrider Distributing Company, Inc. (HDC) an entity related to H &W by some common shareholder ownership. He became the Executive Vice President of HDC in 1979, a position that he also held after the formation of H & W and until the acquisition of the operating assets of HDC by H & W in September 2005. During his career, Mr. Wetzel has served on numerous lubricant industry advisory boards and councils, including the National Lubricants Distributors Advisory Council. He also served three years in the U. S. Army, including one tour in Vietnam with the First Air Calvary. | 