LIZ MCKINLEY
FOUNDER/CEO
PINNACLE PETROLEUM
WHY: Heads Huntington Beach-based provider of competitively priced petroleum products and services; founded 30 years ago in 1995.
NOTABLE: Winner of Business Journal Family-Owned Business Award in 2022; won a Women in Business Award in 2020. First job was at an Oklahoma Dairy Queen at age 14. Began her career at Koch Industries, where she was the first woman hired at a commercial level as a Petroleum Commodities Trader.
