Jersey City, N.J. – The Pinnacle Corporation’s (Pinnacle) Director of Product Management, Melissa Fox Hadley will be honored later this year in the third annual Convenience Store News Top Women in Convenience awards program.

The Top Women in Convenience program recognizes a diverse array of women in the convenience retail industry, including leaders, mentors and role models. Honorees are chosen based on nominations from their peers that illustrate a candidate’s innovative corporate initiatives, extraordinary financial and strategic accomplishments, astute problem-solving acumen, exceptional performance and selfless charitable participation, among other attributes that go above and beyond the call of duty.

This year’s judging was conducted by Convenience Store News in conjunction with the Network of Executive Women (NEW) and the 2016 Top Women in Convenience Advisory Board, which includes all five 2015 Women of the Year honorees.

Hadley is being recognized in the senior-level leader category, comprised of retailers, suppliers and wholesaler executives who have executed strategy and transformed their business in a positive manner.

Hadley joined Pinnacle in 1996 and has contributed in multiple areas, including retail solutions product manager responsible for retail back office and home office solutions, along with foodservice inventory management, handheld, and workforce management. As the Director of Product Management, Hadley is responsible for strategic and tactical product management planning and execution for all solutions offered to the retail convenience store and petroleum market.