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Speakers

Speakers

 
 
Charles Young, III 
CIO & General Manager 
Impact 21 Group, LLC 

Chief Information Officer and General Manager for Impact 21 Group, Chuck has over 20 years of experience in the petroleum/convenience retail industry supporting large and small retail chains and solution providers to automate and integrate technologies and processes.

From strategic planning to deployment, Chuck has supported the industry’s key initiatives including business alignment gap analyses, building and implementing pricebooks and scanning, functional requirements analyses and RFI/RFPs for merchant services credit processing and POS/ Home Office hardware and software, credit network transitions, management of retailer pricebooks during store acquisitions, and category and pricing modeling/analysis programs.

Chuck also supports the industry through participation in the PCATS EB2B Working Groups for Retail and Lottery under Impact 21 Group’s Class A membership, and as a facilitator of the Basic and Advanced Category Management Seminars offered by NACS.

Chuck was formerly POS Coordinator and Retail Automation Manager with SuperAmerica Group, a division of Ashland, Inc. He was responsible for coordinating product rollouts and development for Bennett POS, pay at the pump, and back office systems, time keeping and payroll systems, various Branded Fast Food units, VSAT communication technologies, and electronic credit and check verification. He began his career with SuperAmerica as a Store Manager. Chuck has a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University.