Thomas N. Trkla is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brookwood, which he founded in May 1993. He is also the founder of Yesway, Inc. and has served as Yesway’s Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and as a member of its board of directors since its formation. He is also Chairman of Brookwood’s and Yesway’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 Society 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 Management 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.
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