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south gasoline marketers -rsb- , claremont mckenna college , boston college jersey high school , -lsb- http://www.trinitycatholicacademybrockton.org/ trinity catholic -rsb- industries , -lsb- http://www.sigma.org/ society of independent brockton , massachusetts joseph petrowski petrowski in november 2013 wellesley , massachusetts thumb joseph petrowski
 joseph h. petrowski founder and managing partner of mercantor partners
joseph petrowski

joseph petrowski is the founder and managing partner of mercantor partners , an investment firm and management team working with arclight capital of boston to undertake investments in downstream energy and retail convenience stores .
petrowski is a member of the board of south jersey industries -lrb- nyse ticker symbol : sji -rrb- , a publicly traded natural gas utility and national energy merchant .
petrowski also serves as a board member for the society of independent gasoline marketers , claremont mckenna college , boston college high school , trinity catholic and on the advisory council of the boston federal reserve .
he graduated cum laude from harvard college in 1976 .
prior to forming mercantor partners , petrowski served as chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors for gulf oil l.p. and cumberland farms , inc. from 2005 through 2013 .
during his time as ceo , the company achieved record earnings and increased the cumberland farms retail store count to 700 and gulf branded locations to 3,500 .
when petrowski left the the cumberland gulf group , the company was ranked by `` forbes '' magazine as the 13th largest privately held company in the usa with $ 15 billion in annual revenue and over 7,000 employees .
