LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2016
How fitting that the late vice president of sales for Suburban Propane was, well, always selling.
In fact, he built a 50-year career in the energy industry. But it wasn’t just his sales role with the major propane marketer – and Petrolane before it – that drew attention. It was what he did for the industry as a whole that earned him a place in the LP Gas Hall of Fame.
Those who knew Nunan say he exuded leadership and was a respected representative of the propane industry as he traveled to events around the country. Nunan helped take Suburban Propane public in 1996, mentoring its CEO before retiring from the company in 1999. “Tom was a critical part of the camaraderie and success of our industry,” says Mark Alexander, former Suburban Propane CEO.
Nunan was also a founding member of the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), serving on the council from 1997 to 2005 and helping to develop PERC’s original grant review process. He was PERC’s vice chairman of marketers from 2000 to 2002. “He was one of the greatest propane boosters I’ve run across,” says Roy Willis, PERC president and CEO. “He was a prince of a man.”
Nunan was a longtime member of the National Propane Gas Association board and a president of the Young Gassers.
He died in 2013 at age 79.