Board of Directors

Thomas N. Trkla is one of the founders of Yesway and has served as Yesway’s Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, and as a member of the Company’s board of directors since its formation. He is also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brookwood, which he founded in May 1993, as well as Chairman of Brookwood’s Executive and Investment Committees. Mr. Trkla currently serves as an Advisory Committee member of the Massachusetts Campaign for Children, a non-profit statewide child advocacy organization, a Director of the Princeton Association of New England, a Director of the Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education, a Director of the Land Conservation Assistance Network (LandCAN), a member of the Advisory Council for the James Madison Program at Princeton University, and a member of the Urban Land Institute. In 2021, Mr. Trkla was named an Entrepreneur of The Year® 2021 Southwest Award winner by Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Trkla holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. In 2004, he completed the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.

Thomas W. Brown serves as Yesway’s Chief Real Estate Officer and has served as a member of Yesway’s board of directors since the Company’s initial public offering. Mr. Brown is responsible for all real estate activities of Yesway, including the construction of new-to-industry stores and raze and rebuilds, existing store remodels, fuel expansions, and upgrades to store fixtures and equipment, as well as overseeing the Company’s build-to-suit program. Mr. Brown is also a member, President, and Director of Real Estate Acquisitions for Brookwood since 2015, where he is also a member of Brookwood’s Executive and Investment Committees. He was previously a Senior Managing Director at Brookwood from 1994 to 2015. Prior to joining Brookwood in 1994, Mr. Brown was a Vice President of Winthrop Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Winthrop Financial Associates, a Boston-based real estate investment and management firm. Mr. Brown also previously served as President of a publicly-held national real estate firm. Mr. Brown is currently a member of the Urban Land Institute, the National Association of Office and Industrial Parks and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance from the University of Texas and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Dallas. In 2018, he completed the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.

Shauna J. Clark has served as a member of Yesway’s board of directors since the Company’s initial public offering. Ms. Clark is the Chair and Head of Employment for Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, a global law firm with over 4,000 attorneys located in over 55 cities worldwide. As a member of the firm’s global and US management committees, Ms. Clark is actively involved in setting and overseeing the firm’s strategic direction, profitability, and governance. In addition to her management responsibilities, Ms. Clark handles high-stakes litigation and provides strategic advice to global corporations in a variety of industries including energy, real estate, retail, telecommunications, and healthcare. Ms. Clark partners with clients on a broad array of complex labor and employment, regulatory, business, and enforcement matters to help manage their risk around the world through robust governance and compliance strategies. Ms. Clark currently serves on the Baylor College of Medicine Board of Trustees as well as other non-profit boards. Ms. Clark holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Louisiana State University and a Juris Doctorate degree, cum laude, from Tulane Law School.

Ronald C. Lewis has served as a member of Yesway’s board of directors since the Company’s initial public offering. Mr. Lewis is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Rockwell Fund, Inc., a private philanthropic foundation focused on providing grants to non-profit organizations in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining Rockwell, Mr. Lewis served as City Attorney for the City of Houston, Texas, a $5 billion-dollar municipal corporation with more than 20,000 employees, from 2016 to 2020. Before serving as City Attorney, Mr. Lewis was a partner at Marshall & Lewis, LLP from 2006 until 2016, where he focused on litigation for businesses and individuals in the energy, real estate, construction, financial and manufacturing industries. Mr. Lewis was also previously a partner at Baker Botts L.L.P. from 1991 to 2006. Mr. Lewis currently serves as a Director of Philanthropy Southwest and had held director positions with several other nonprofit boards. Mr. Lewis holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in public policy from Princeton University and graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.

Greg M. Papazian has served as a member of Yesway’s board of directors since the Company’s initial public offering. Mr. Papazian is a member and former Chief Investor Relations Officer of Brookwood, and Managing Director and Director of Sales for Brookwood Securities Partners, LLC, Brookwood’s wholly owned broker-dealer. Mr. Papazian also served on Brookwood’s Executive and Investment Committees. In these capacities, Mr. Papazian directed all institutional and retail equity offerings, led the sales team at Brookwood Securities, and directed Brookwood’s investor relations department. Prior to joining Brookwood Securities at its founding in 1993, Mr. Papazian was employed by Winthrop Securities Co., Inc. Before joining Winthrop Securities Co., Inc., he was a regional manager for a division of Allied-Signal, Inc. Mr. Papazian is a licensed real estate broker in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has extensive experience in commercial real estate sales and leasing. Mr. Papazian previously held Series 7, Series 22, Series 24, and Series 63 FINRA licenses. Mr. Papazian is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 2018, he completed the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.

Jill A. Soltau has served as a member of Yesway’s board of directors since the Company’s initial public offering. Ms. Soltau also serves as a member of the board of directors for AutoZone, Inc. Ms. Soltau served on the board of directors for Kirkland’s, Inc. from June 2022 through June 2025, and Southwest Airlines Co. from February 2023 through November 2024. She also served as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of J.C. Penney Company, Inc. from October 2018 through December 2020. Prior to that, from February 2015 to September 2018, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer of JoAnn Stores Inc. Ms. Soltau also served as President of Shopko Stores Operating Co. LLC and has held senior-level positions in national and regional retailers, including Kohl’s Corporation, Sears Holdings Corporation and Saks, Inc. Ms. Soltau is a founding board member of Hudson Community Living Company, a non-profit organization focused on building a safe, inclusive, and community-accessible neighborhood for adults with developmental disabilities in Hudson, OH. Ms. Soltau received a Bachelor of Science degree in retail merchandising and management from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.