NACS has added six new hires to its team across regulatory and policy, content, design and marketing roles.
Brennan Duckett joined NACS on May 26 as director of regulatory and policy. He most recently served as director of technology and innovation policy for the National Restaurant Association, where he developed legislative, regulatory and grassroots strategies at the federal and state level. Before that, he was director of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy with a minor in political science from Denison University.
Austin Fuller joined NACS on June 3 as senior writer, providing content for NACS Magazine and online platforms. He has extensive newspaper experience, including stints with the Orlando Sentinel, The Daytona Beach News-Journal and the Daily Commercial. Fuller earned a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Stetson University.
Tim Connor joined NACS on June 8 as art director. He previously was senior art director at the independent design agency GRAPHEK and has held creative positions at Blackboard, Radancy, Brunner, AXIS Communications and The Corcoran Gallery of Art. He earned a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in communication arts and design from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Lisa Zilka joined NACS on June 15 as senior designer. She was most recently at USA Today/Studio Offset as senior graphic designer and previously served as assistant art director for Army Times Publishing Co. She earned a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in graphic design from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.
Rose Jun joined NACS on June 22 as graphic designer. She previously worked as a multidisciplinary freelance designer and served as graphic designer for Idea Grove and Duckwoo Corp. Jun earned a bachelor’s degree with a double major in international trade and fashion design from Andong National University in South Korea.
Isabella Montero joined NACS on June 22 as marketing coordinator. A recent graduate of Dartmouth University with a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science, she has interned or worked with RPD Fund, bp, Atlantis Management Group and the Goate Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
About NACS
For more than 60 years, NACS has been the premier association for convenience and fuel retailers. NACS has 1,000 retail member companies representing more than 400,000 stores in 50‑plus countries, including 45,000 stores in the U.S. The U.S. convenience store industry, with nearly 152,000 stores nationwide, conducts 160 million transactions daily and had sales of $837 billion in 2024.