Our History - Your Team
Leadership Built on Decades of Industry Experience
Founded in 2021, Valhalla Fuels is led by a seasoned management team averaging more than 35 years of experience in the downstream transportation fuels industry. Our leadership has held key roles across every major sector of the business, including refining, marketing, supply, distribution, wholesale, and delivered fuels operations.
This depth of experience enables us to build lasting supplier relationships, make better-informed buying decisions for our customers, and deliver reliable supply and better fueling solutions to help our customers succeed in their core businesses.
Further, we use the latest “technology-powered” supply chain management systems to manage our logistics, billing, and customer relations.
Leadership
Erik T. Younger
President & CEO
Erik is currently the CEO & Owner of Valhalla Fuels LLC a wholesale supply and distribution company based in Scottsdale Arizona.
Erik brings more than 27 years of leadership experience in marketing, product supply, scheduling, trading, pricing, refinery operations, transportation and business development in the Oil & Gas, Petro Chemical and Transportation Fuels industries.
Since 2006 his focus has been on developing wholesale marketing business units for companies such as Loves Truck Stops under Musket Corp, CHS Inc’s Unbranded Fuels Marketing and Pilot Travel Centers Wholesale Fuels, developing and deploying nationwide sales teams, creating branding around each and guiding them to larger gallon sales and profitable yearly success.
Erik has real-world experience in starting or taking underperforming wholesale companies and transforming them into top-tier market leaders by creating executable plans to develop markets for traditional fuel products and renewable biofuels, introduce new products to customers and maximize margins in a volatile economy.
Work History: TOSCO Refining Company (Accounting, Scheduling, Pricing & Trading), Phillips 66 (Scheduling pipelines and Ocean going Vessels) Conoco Phillips (Scheduling & Trading), Holly Frontier Refining (Scheduling, Refinery Operations, Railcar Operations, Natural Gas scheduling/Trading), Musket Corp (Sales, Marketing, Pricing, Railcar Operations, Business Development, Sales Management), CHS Inc. (Refinery Operations, Scheduling, Railcar Operations, C-Store development, Started the Unbranded Fuel Marketing business unit for new markets), Pilot Travel Centers, rejuvenated Pilot Wholesale, Railcar Operations, Built the DEF division with 25 nationwide Diesel Exhaust Fluid solutioning plants, rebranded Pilot Wholesale into Saratoga Rack Marketing and grew it into a Nationwide 6 billion gallon a year wholesale marketing giant.
Gary Bevers
Chief Operations Officer
Gary brings more than 30 years of leadership experience in marketing, product branding and business development in the Oil & Gas, Petro Chemical and Transportation Fuels industries. Since 1995 his focus has been on developing, deploying, and marketing Internet, eCommerce and Software Solutions for the Energy, Petroleum and Petrochemical industries.
Gary has real-world experience in developing markets for traditional fuel products and renewable biofuels, helping clients develop executable plans to introduce new products to market and maximize margins in a volatile economy.
He counts Exxon Chemical, Tetra Technology Oil & Gas Services ($10 Billion/yr. eCommerce), LyondellBasell-Houston Refining ($10 Billion/mo. refined fuels marketing project), and Mansfield Oil ($6.5 Billion/yr.) TAZ Energy/Mexico ($40 Billion terminal construction project) and Gevo Renewable Gasoline and Chemicals amongst his many clients.
Gary consults as a subject matter expert and leads product and market development for innovative eSupply Chain Management solutions. He is actively involved in driving digital automation for the Fuels Industry and in developing technology solutions that deliver cost-effective benefits to all Transportation Fuels Trading Partners—Refiners, Distributors and end-use customers.
He also worked on market and product development for CITGO’s Private Trading Hub for South America, DTN Energy and two Petroleum Dot.com start-ups, DownstreamEnergy.com and FuelQuest.com. This gives him an extensive experience base in the downstream fuels market for technology solution providers to drive improvements in supply chain efficiencies and ultimately lower operation costs.
The Team
Kendra McCreary
Vice President, Sales & Supply
Kendra McCreary serves as Vice President, Sales & Supply at Valhalla Fuels. With 25+ years as a Fuels Market Executive, she brings deep expertise in traditional and renewable fuels, wholesale rack and delivered markets, supply strategy, and market expansion, and is known for building durable relationships and turning complex opportunities into profitable growth.
At Valhalla Fuels, Kendra leads business development and market expansion across Texas and adjacent wholesale markets, strengthening customer and supplier partnerships. She will develop new commercial opportunities by connecting long-standing industry relationships with competitive supply, pricing, and market-entry strategies.
Kendra’s career includes leadership roles at Boyett Petroleum, Gulf Coast Energy, Slate Energy Marketing, and Sunoco LP. She has worked with both midstream and downstream companies, including NGL Energy Partners, Susser Petroleum, and Eco-Conscious and Alternative Energy & Carbon Credit Trading.
Kendra is known for building durable supplier and customer relationships, opening new markets, and turning complex commercial opportunities into profitable growth.
Becky LeMay
Director of Operations
Becky began her career as an accountant at Cenex Coop, for 30 years she worked her way up through grain trade accounting to refined fuels where she was managing Exchanges with other refiners, Inventory management, pricing & Index based pricing, system implementations of JD Edwards, DTN Fuel Software. Becky spent the last 10 years at Pilot Wholesale/Saratoga doing a variety of roles, including as Supply manager, Sales, DTN specialist, Project Manager for the creation of systems, processes and successful startup of Saratoga Rack Marketing. Becky continues with Valhalla Fuels managing back-office accounting systems, billing and pricing creating the foundation for successful growth for years to come.
Matt Proctor
Director of Sales, Refined Fuels Product Development
Matt is an experienced entrepreneur with 15 years in the refined fuels industry. Notable positions include wholesale marketer, trader, jobber, construction consultant, logistics expert and software implementation specialist. Matt joined Valhalla in 2024 with an immediate impact on our oil field fuel sales, placing portable fuel tanks for large construction projects and creatively meeting the needs of Valhalla’s customers with new product lines and services.
Johan "MJ" Kiper
Director of Sales, Commercial and Industrial
MJ is a Swedish Armed Forces Veteran that immigrated to the U.S. 5 years ago, started his own transportation and distribution company in Arizona which was very successful before continuing at Valhalla. MJ focuses on C-store supply, nationwide trucking customers and industrial users of refined fuels, Lubricants and DEF.
Cassie rash
Director of Systems & Data Management
Cassie serves as Valhalla Fuels' Director of Systems & Data Management. With more than 18 years of corporate leadership and data systems experience, she has built a reputation for empowering growth through employee training, onboarding, and user support resources. Cassie brings Oil & Gas and Industrial Services expertise from companies including ExxonMobil, Kinder Morgan, Ensign Energy Services, Enterprise, Lubrizol, SNC Lavalin, and Bilfinger Tepsco.
Joe Hajek
Director of Sales, Oil Field Services
Joe has a 10-year background in Oil field service with Refined Fuels, selling to drilling rigs, frac sites, transportation and logistics hubs servicing the oil field. Refined Fuels, Lubricants, DEF, and fuel tank sales or lease, consultative sales to improve customer efficiency and value to this very important sector of the U.S. economy. Joe is also a former PBR Professional Rodeo Cowboy.