Chris Gheysens

Chris Gheysens (born March 31, 1971) is an American businessman who serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Wawa Inc., a privately held chain of convenience store and gas stations with over 1000 locations along the East Coast of the United States.

He grew up in Vineland, New Jersey and worked in his youth at car washes that his father owned. He attended St. Mary School in East Vineland and then moved on to St. Augustine Preparatory School in Richland, New Jersey, graduating in 1989. After earning a B.S. in accounting from Villanova University in 1993, Gheysens earned an M.B.A. from Saint Joseph's University in 2005.

Career Gheysens worked for four years as an auditor in the Philadelphia office of Deloitte.

Gheysens was hired by Wawa in 1997 and was named to serve as the company's chief financial officer and chief administrative officer in 2007. In 2012, he was named as Wawa's president and became the chief financial officer in January 2013, after a 16-month-long transition from his predecessor, Howard Stoeckel. He is identified on his business card as "Lead Goose", a riff on the company's logo of a flying goose, a title that he describes as fitting in with the loose corporate culture at Wawa. In October 2013, he was one of four members added as retail members serving on the board of directors of the National Association of Convenience Stores.

Gheysens traveled to Rome in 2015 as part of a delegation coordinating aspects of the papal visit to Philadelphia as part of Pope Francis's 2015 visit to North America.

He lived in Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey before moving to Moorestown, New Jersey with his wife and four children.