Scott Hartman

President & CEO at Rutter's

Speaker

Scott is President/CEO of Rutter’s Holdings, operating 91 Rutter’s convenience stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia; Rutter’s Dairy, selling products in five states; and M&G Realty a commercial real estate holding company. Rutter’s is the oldest vertically integrated food company in the U.S. dating back 11 generations, 278 years to 1747. Rutter’s convenience stores recently celebrated 57 years in convenience and the dairy celebrated 104 years.

Scott received his Accounting Degree from George Washington University and MBA from Duke University. He was employed by Price Waterhouse as Senior Manager in Consulting from 1983-1990 and is a CPA.

Scott is past Chairman of National Association of Convenience Stores, Petroleum Convenience Association for Technology Standards, the Pennsylvania Convenience Store Council and Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association. Scott has served on Advisory Boards to companies including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and First Data. He has also served on many local charity boards.

Scott was named the 2025 Retail Leader of the Year by CSP magazine. Scott has been inducted into the Convenience Store Hall of Fame, Food Industry Hall of Fame, Convenience Store Technology Hall of Fame and Candy Hall of Fame. In 2019, he was also recognized as “One of the 50 Most Influential People in C-Store History”. In 2015, Scott was awarded the AJC National Human Relations Award.

Rutter’s is the only U.S. based convenience store chain to win the coveted International Convenience Retailer of the Year awarded in London. Rutter’s has also been the U.S. chain of the year, has been the industry Food Innovator of the Year winner 4 of the last 10 years, was ranked one of the 500 best mid-sized employers to work for by Forbes, has ranked #1, #1, #3, #2 nationally for customer mystery shop experience the last 4 years by an independent survey company and was ranked the #4 gasoline brand in the U.S. by the USA Today customer poll. Rutter’s also was ranked one of the Best Loyalty Programs by Newsweek.

Scott resides in York, Pennsylvania with his wife, Cathy, and has two adult children, Sara who teaches public school in the Fairfax County School System in Virigina and Christopher, who is President of M&G Realty. Scott & Cathy became grandparents of Sammy and Benny Hartman in April 2025.

Scott loves playing golf and has played 146 of Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Courses in the World. There are 209 courses that have been listed on the Golf Magazine list. He and his son, Chris, have played 139 of the top 100 courses together and 100 from the 2005, 7 and 9 lists. No father/son has ever played one of the year’s lists together. Scott & Chris have played 3 lists together. They have a Podcast titled “the Golf Quest” which helps to capture the special moments of setting a parent/child world record.