About Paget Distribution
Our leadership team brings decades of combined experience in fuel distribution, petrochemicals, agribusiness, and operational excellence.
Paul's broad experience in the oil and fuel sectors spans global-scale lift operations to daily delivery routes. He understands supply chain dynamics, quality control, safety compliance, and efficient distribution, ensuring seamless fuel management for diverse operations.
Paul L. Padgett is a seasoned builder, developer, disaster relief contractor, and industry veteran with a career spanning more than four decades. His work has touched communities across the country, delivering resilient construction, rapid disaster response, and reliable infrastructure solutions.
A seasoned agribusiness professional, Paul is deeply involved in crops such as corn, soybeans, rice, and sugar. His practical farming knowledge informs every project with an appreciation for agronomic realities, efficient resource use, and sustainable agricultural practices.
Core Experience
- Building, development, and disaster relief contracting (40+ years)
- Disaster relief operations for fire, flood, tornado, and earthquake events
- Oil, fuels, and logistics expertise
- Farming industry leadership (30+ years)
What Drives His Work
- Safety and reliability: A relentless focus on protecting people, property, and the environment
- Quality and durability: Commitment to best-in-class construction and dependable service
- Operational excellence: Efficient project management, meticulous planning, and clear communication
- Community resilience: Rebuilding with an eye toward long-term recovery and sustainability
What We Offer
- Comprehensive building and development services from concept to completion
- Rapid disaster response and reconstruction capabilities
- Concrete, structural, and civil engineering guidance
- Fuel logistics, storage, and delivery solutions
- Agribusiness insight and farming industry collaboration
For the past 40 years, Mr. MacPherson has been active in the Petrochemical and Fossil Fuels businesses on both a domestic and international level. His experience began with Whitnor Chemical of Niagara Falls, New York rising through the ranks of manufacturing operations into senior management.
Employing his working knowledge of petrochemicals and fossil fuels he joined Chemsource, Inc. of Wilmington, Delaware, heading their global trading desk. Mr. MacPherson was also COO for ICS Chemical Industries.
Mr MacPherson was a key architect of joint ventures and marketing projects with the likes of E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co, Bayer AG, Petro-Canada, Exxon, Chevron, FUCHS Germany, ICI Industries and Hoechst Celanese, to name a few.
In addition to being a co-founder of the fuel distributor, Paget Distribution LLC, he is also the Chief Operating Officer of Tanker Express, Inc. a worldwide trader of fossil fuels, concentrating in diesel fuel and aviation kerosene.
Tydd was the founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Cornhusker Energy Lexington from 2000 to 2016 when the plant was sold to Chief Ethanol. In his role he and team designed, permitted, built and operated one of the most efficient ethanol processes in the USA, producing up to an annual rate of 60 million gallons of ethanol, 365,000 tons of high value cattle feed from 16,000,000 bushels of field corn.
Prior to Cornhusker, Tydd was a High Net-Worth advisor and trader and decided to leave the industry after Wachovia bought First Union. Tydd specialized in 144 stock management, tax efficient investment strategies and derivatives, stock and options trading and tax-free municipal bonds. He worked with individuals, corporations, institutions and family hedge funds. He specialized in technology, telecom, industrial, metals, mining and last mile development opportunities.
Tydd currently sits on multiple private boards, a non-profit charity that supports Elderly, Handicap able and Veterans. In his free time, he provides highly specialized Fractional CEO consultancy to 27 clients ranging from startups to larger private companies positioning to hold public IPO within 2-3 years.