Jason Krieger

Jason began his career in 1994 as a sales trainee for Gas Tech, Inc., a large employee-owned Midwest packaged gas distributor with locations in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Following an extensive training program encompassing all aspects of the industry, Jason assumed an outside sales position and later transitioned to sales and business leadership roles.

In 1999, Praxair purchased Gas Tech, Inc. where Jason remained in leadership and acquisition integration roles until he was asked to move to Phoenix, AZ in 2001 to assume a Division General Manager position for the Southwest states of the U.S. for two years. Jason and his family began moving every couple years for expanded leadership roles that required significant growth and/or business improvements in large geographies in the central and western portions of the U.S. Senior leadership positions based in Phoenix, St. Louis, Austin, Chicago, San Francisco and Houston represented a large portion of his 23 year service with Praxair.

Jason joined AWG in 2017 as Senior Vice President of the Central Division which includes locations in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. In 2019 promoted to President and COO and relocated to Raleigh, NC. In 2020 promoted to President and CEO.