Pilot Company announced that CEO Jimmy Haslam will be succeeded in the role by current Chief Strategy Officer Shameek Konar on Jan. 1, 2021, at which point Haslam will become chairman of the board, and company founder James Haslam will be named chairman emeritus. Konar, who joined Pilot in 2017, will be the first non-family CEO in the 62-year history of the company. Pilot started as a single gas station and has grown into a business that includes 28,000 employees and 950 locations, and is the nation’s largest seller of over-the-road diesel fuel.