Joseph Colonel is the senior VP, sales for Castle Oil Corp. He is responsible for managing all aspects of the commercial, industrial and large residential sales of the firm. He began at Castle in 1996 as the VP of institutional sales in which he managed the company's industrial and commercial sales as well as Castle's customer care center. He has 25 years of industry experience. He began his career in the oil industry when he joined the controller's office of Mobil Oil Corp. Later, he moved to Coastal Corp. as accounting manager and then became the controller of the northeast region and finally commercial contract manager. He is a graduate of Pace University with a bachelor's degree in Accounting and a master's of Business Administration in Finance.