Ryan Oettinger is no longer CEO at Chestnut Market.
Oettinger (pictured below) joined the New Paltz, New York-based convenience-store chain in January. As of April, he had ended his tenure there, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Chestnut Market confirmed to CSP on Monday that Oettinger was no longer employed by the company but would not comment further. It was not immediately clear who is acting CEO or what the process would be to fill that position.
Oettinger was the first CEO to succeed Chestnut Market’s four founding brothers—Mickey, Sal, Sam and Cal Jamal.
- Chestnut Market is No. 89 on CSP’s 2025 Top 202 ranking of U.S. convenience-store chains by total number of company-owned retail outlets.
Prior to Chestnut, Oettinger worked at Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Greensboro, North Carolina, as vice president and general manager of retail solutions for North America. He spent three years at Pilot Co., Knoxville, Tennessee, where he rose to senior director of enterprise and IT service delivery. He also had a 16-year career at Houston-based Chevron where he ended as head of retail fuel sales for Southern California, Las Vegas and Arizona.
Founded in the early 1980s by the Jamal brothers, Chestnut Group has expanded to 80 locations across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. It is also a petroleum marketer, distributing fuel to more than 250 sites in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Fuel brands include Exxon, Mobil, Shell, bp and Gulf.
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