Meet the Executive Team

Make The Moment Work

From the sign-up process to the phone call to customer service to receiving the bill and beyond, every interaction with Paraco symbolizes a moment where a customer could feel satisfied, relieved, even joyful.

JOSEPH ARMENTANO

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Joe is the Chief Executive Officer of Paraco, a privately held propane company serving the Northeast region. Paraco's story began in 1968 with his Father, Pat Armentano, working from a garage in Mount Vernon, New York where he started an industrial gas company known as Patsems, Inc. The company entered the propane business in 1979 with the purchase of a small propane and oil marketer called, Paraco Fuel Corp.

More About Joe

Today, Paraco services over 120,000 residential and commercial customers out of 27 distribution locations. Paraco's footprint is primarily in the Northeast and is the 13th largest propane marketer in the U.S. headquartered in Rye Brook, New York, with more than 425 employees company-wide.
Joe grew up in Mount Vernon and Yonkers, New York, and is the oldest of four boys. He attended Roosevelt High School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society. He played football for Tony DeMatteo, one of his earliest mentors, and who still coaches football today.
Joe graduated from Fordham University in 1976 with a B.A. in History and went on to earn his MBA in Finance from Iona College in 1988. He is currently writing his first book, "A Helluva Ride," the story of the legacy of his father and founder of Paraco, Pat Armentano, to be published in the Spring of 2020.

CHRISTINA ARMENTANO

Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President

Christina is 3rd generation with Paraco Gas, one of the largest privately-held marketers of propane in the United States providing propane services to over 120,000 customers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont.

More About Christina

A member of the Paraco Executive Team, with a focus on strategic growth initiatives. Christina provides leadership, direction, and resource stewardship to the organization's sales, marketing, customer service and business development functions.

Christina joined Paraco in 2014 after spending nearly a decade in leadership positions outside the family business. Christina served as a Director, at Cook Associates where she managed client relationships, and recruitment initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. Vistaprint, a $1B e-commerce company, and Boyden, a global management consulting firm. During her MBA program Christina focused her efforts on the energy industry, with Graduate work conducted with Irving Oil Ltd, Big Belly Solar and AmeriGas.

Christina, holds the 2018 LP Gas Rising Leader Award, and, was named the Business Council of Westchester New York Rising Star in 2016.

Christina serves on several boards including the Board of Directors for the Hudson Valley Oil Energy Council (HVOEC), Director at Large, National Propane Gas Association (NPGA), Executive Director, New York Propane Gas Association (NYPGA) and Board of Directors of Lakes Gas a MN based propane company. Christina is serving a second term on the New York Propane Educational Research Council (NYPERC) is a Committee Chair for the Propane Gas Association of New England (PGANE), is an appointed member of the NPGA Regulatory Taskforce, and on the 2020 PERC Selection Committee members.

Christina holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from James Madison University and Master of Business Administration from Babson College F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. Christina lives in Connecticut with her husband Sam, daughter Noelle Rose (4 years) and son Sammy (2 years old).

JOHN MOORE

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Bio coming soon

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