Our Strategic Partners
CREATING SYNERGY WITH STRATEGIC PARTNERS
Haskel Thompson & Associates recognizes and pursues qualified firms in aligned fields to enhance the recruiting process. Our executive recruiting team has many years of experience and many industry contacts. Selected firms represent time-tested and/or association-tested partners that provide leadership and quality services within their own industry sectors.
These values-based relationships permit client companies and/or candidates to confidently utilize services not offered by HT&A. Our strategic partners permit us to provide support, wrap-around services, increase market visibility while concentrating our expertise. Please feel free to confidently contact those listed below.
AEC Services
AEC Services, Inc. is a fully turn-key design/build company founded in November 1996 offering a full range of services to our present customer base. We offer competitive pricing and quality work. AEC Services, Inc. can help you in meeting new Design-Build, Engineering and Construction Objectives through out the Southeastern United States. [read more]
AMBEST
Founded in 1988, AMBEST is a member-owned network of more than 645 independent truck stops and service centers nationwide. Built on a foundation of independent, family-owned businesses, AMBEST provides its members with the purchasing power, marketing support, and strategic partnerships needed to compete and grow while maintaining the personalized service [read more]
Business Accelerator Team
Business Accelerator Team has one goal: Improving your profitability. Specifically, we will increase revenue and operating margins through our customized approach.With 400 plus years of combined experience in strategy, financial analysis, growth development, operations, local store marketing, and trend interpretation and forecasting. Business Accelerator Team brings relevant expertise and connections to improve your [read more]
Connor+Gaskins
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Naples, Florida, Connor+Gaskins is a national general contracting company known for its commitment to quality, collaboration and innovative spirit. The company operates through four integrated divisions: Vertical (condominiums & resorts), Homes (luxury residential), Studio (boutique commercial) and Transportation (travel centers, commercial fueling, marinas, and [read more]
Food Forward Thinking
Food and beverage menu development is our specialty. Our mission is to support retailers in their efforts to improve each marketing window, introduce new items, and elevate quality and profitability. We offer category management optimization, menu development, and innovative platforms and line extensions to help grow food and beverage sales. Great [read more]
IMST
IMST Corp. is an independent market research firm specializing in retail site selection, analysis, and sales forecasting. Our firm is a national leader in single site studies for convenience stores and fuel stations. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, IMST provides reliable data that convenience and fuel retailers need to make profitable development [read more]
Kressner Strategy Group
With over 40 years knowledge and experience cultivated by strong relationships, Myra Kressner brings value to the marketplace by developing and facilitating strategic engagement for suppliers and retailers in the consumable retail industries. Myra Kressner co-founded Retail Insights, the food retail industry’s first b-b video publishing company in 1983, which was sold to Progressive [read more]
NATSO
NATSO empowers truck stops, travel centers and transportation energy providers; uniting members, staff, and suppliers to fuel profitability, foster community, and champion political progress. Christine Schoessler COO Ms. Schoessler leads the NATSO teams that develop and deliver information and business services that drive the profitability of travel centers, truck [read more]
Paragon Solutions Inc
Paragon Solutions Inc Austin Burns | President & CEO, Paragon Solutions Austin Burns leads award-winning design firm Paragon Solutions, bringing distinctive leadership to the convenience retail industry. With 39 years of specialized experience, Paragon serves convenience stores, travel centers, and petroleum companies from its Fort Worth headquarters, earning recognition as an industry design and [read more]
PEI
Founded in 1951, PEI represents more than 1,500 member companies in all 50 states and more than 80 countries. Members include manufacturers, sellers and installers of equipment used in service stations, terminals, bulk plants, fuel, oil and gasoline delivery, and similar petroleum and energy marketing operations. PEI mission PEI is the [read more]
Shea Capital Group
Shea Capital Group, LLC Kevin Shea Founder - Shea Capital Group, LLC Kevin Shea kevin@shea.capital 860-537-0366 Corporate Real Estate and Financing professional with expertise in the Convenience Store and Petroleum industry. The bulk of my career was spent at Getty Realty Corp. and its predecessor company, Getty Petroleum Corp. In [read more]
SIGMA
SIGMA: America’s Leading Fuel Marketers is the national trade association representing the most successful, progressive, and innovative fuel marketers and chain retailers in the United States and Canada. SIGMA: America's Leading Fuel MarketersFounded in 1958, SIGMA: America’s Leading Fuel Marketers has become a fixture in the fuel marketing industry. After more [read more]
Taste Strategy
Taste Strategy We decode taste so you don’t have to guess. Taste Strategy is a sensory and consumer research consultancy that partners with Convenience Retailers, QSRs, and their suppliers to make confident, consumer-driven decisions about taste and product quality. We specialize in product research that informs new launches, vendor selection, cost [read more]
Your Path Coaching and Consulting
Dorian Cunion Executive Coach | Executive Leadership Development Professional Summary A highly accomplished and results-oriented Executive Coach with a proven track record of partnering with executive leaders to unlock their full potential and drive organizational success. Dorian has 21 years of experience in retail, having held executive roles in operations, franchise [read more]
What Our Strategic Partners Say
“Consummate professional: if I was asked which is the most descriptive phrase that best describes Haskel Thompson, that is what it must be. Our companies’ strategic relationship enjoys an elevated status for both of us because of the simple fact that I know that for whatever company or whomever candidate of which (or whom) Haskel represents has the “consummate professional” on their side. Though our relationship has existed for several years, it continues to grow in importance each and every year. I am proud that Haskel Thompson and Associates is a strategic partner of IMST Corp.”
“I have had the opportunity to know Haskel both professionally and personally for a number of years. He has always displayed the highest integrity and ethics in business and in life. It is my privilege to recommend Haskel and his company”