Next Level Petroleum LLC

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About Next Level Petroleum LLC

Rustam Ramji began his career in the franchise industry by purchasing his first Blimpie in 1986. Over the next 5 years, Mr. Ramji developed 15 Blimpies, including several in prominent locations throughout Atlanta. Mr. Ramji served on the franchise committee for advertising for Blimpie before transitioning to the retail gasoline station market in 1991. During the next 12 years, Mr. Ramji bought and sold over 50 gasoline stations and served on the Chevron dealer council. When serving a three year term as a community leader between 1993 and 1996, he was a founding member of Atlanta Retailers Association in 1995, a community-based association of convenience stores in Georgia, which has grown to include over 1,200 convenience stores as members. In 2003, as a result of the growth of Mr. Ramji’s retail gas station companies, NLP became a Chevron marketer and has since added Texaco, Shell, Citgo, Exxon, Mobil, 76 and Valero as brands and currently supplies over 200 stations in Georgia, Texas and Oklahoma. NLP also has an internal construction company that focuses on building state of the art, ground-up stations and has developed 40 of these sites over its history. Altogether, Mr. Ramji has developed approximately 150 gasoline stations over his 25 year career in the industry, including his time as a retail location owner and with NLP. Mr. Ramji has been extremely active in other portions of the real estate industry, including investments in office buildings, residential complexes, day care centers and townhomes. Furthermore, he has formed a separate credit and finance company to fill in gaps while buying and selling gasoline stations and to help NLP’s customers and dealers with restructuring traditional debt, which is still active today.