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Retail 2024: GEORGE L. HOLM
Holm became Performance Food Group’s leader in 2008 after more than four decades in the food service-distribution industry, with leadership roles at Sysco, US Foods, Alliant Foodservice and Vistar. He became president and CEO of PFG when the Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management purchased PFG and merged it wit[...]
Transportation 2024: JUDY BARRETT
Barrett, who grew up in Hampton Roads and scored her first job working at the candy counter at Irwin’s Pharmacy, has accumulated more than 30 years of experience in banking and finance. She has been with TowneBank for over 16 years. She is the second woman president in the Virginia Maritime Association’s 104-year his[...]
Real Estate 2024: JACKIE THIEL
Overseeing Long & Foster Real Estate’s 200-plus offices and more than 9,000 real estate agents across eight states and Washington, D.C., Thiel is responsible for the organization’s strategic business direction and operations. The company is owned by The Long and Foster Cos., a subsidiary of HomeServices of Americ[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: MARK P. MARRON
Marron started at ePlus, a provider of IT assets and financing services, in 2005. Marron became president and CEO in 2016 and a member of the company’s board in 2018. This January, ePlus announced that it had acquired the assets of Denver-based IT solutions provider PEAK Resources. In February, ePlus announced the availabi[...]
Retail 2024: ROBERT A. ‘BOB’ ARCHER
Archer’s career began after earning a business degree from Virginia Tech in 1969, followed immediately by military service and a tour in Vietnam. Upon his discharge in 1972, Archer was named general manager and vice president of Blue Ridge Beverage, the wholesale beer, wine and nonalcoholic distributorship his family has o[...]
2024 Virginia 500: Manufacturing
DOUG BASSETT PRESIDENT, VAUGHAN-BASSETT FURNITURE, GALAX BRADFORD ‘BRAD’ BEAUCHAMP PRESIDENT AND CEO, CARPENTER, RICHMOND MANMEET S. BHATIA PRESIDENT AND CEO, TMEIC CORP. AMERICAS, ROANOKE HOWARD BROADFOOT PRESIDENT AND CEO, ELECTRO-MECHANICAL, BRISTOL ESTER CODINA MANAGING DIRECTOR, ALFA LAVAL U.S. SALES; CLUSTER PRESIDENT, NORTH AMERICA, ALFA LAVAL, RICHMOND [&hell[...]
Banking | Finance 2024: FRANK ROTMAN
Rotman frequently pens advice to folks trying to build companies. “Getting a startup to ‘work’ isn’t simply about doing one thing well,” Rotman wrote in a post on X, where he tweets as @fintechjunkie. “Most startups are extremely complex and require many interconnected parts to all function in concert.” He [...]
Law 2024: FARHAD AGHDAMI
Born in Tehran, Iran, in 1968, Aghdami came to the United States in 1971 when his father joined the faculty of the Medical College of Virginia as an anesthesiologist. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a history degree, Aghdami earned his law degree from Wake Forest University, and a master of laws degree in [...]
Health Care 2024: LT. GEN. TELITA CROSLAND
Crosland is the fourth director of the Defense Health Agency, as well as the first African American to lead the agency, which the U.S. Department of Defense established in 2013. The DHA manages military hospitals and clinics, as well as TRICARE, the health insurance program for service members, their families and retirees. Sin[...]
Retail 2024: WILLIAM D. ‘BILL’ NASH
Nash began at CarMax in 1997 as an auction manager, working his way up to president and CEO in 2016. Founded in 1993 in Richmond as a subsidiary of electronics retailer Circuit City, Fortune 500 company CarMax is the country’s largest retailer of used cars, employing almost 30,000 people, including 3,300 in Virginia. Accor[...]
2024 Virginia 500: Transportation
DEVON C. ANDERS PRESIDENT, INTERCHANGE GROUP, MOUNT CRAWFORD MONICA BACKMON CEO, NORTHERN VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, FAIRFAX COUNTY RYAN BANAS ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND HRBT EXPANSION PROJECT DIRECTOR, HNTB, NORFOLK JUDY BARRETT PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA MARITIME ASSOCIATION; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, TOWNEBANK, NORFOLK P. DALE BENNETT PRESIDENT AND CEO, VIRGINIA […][...]
Professional Services 2024: JULIE SWEET
CEO of Fortune Global 500 firm Accenture since 2019 and its chair since 2021, Sweet has been on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business list since 2016 — ranking No. 2 for 2022 and 2023 — and was named one of Time’s Time100: The Most Influential People of 2024. She also made Forbes’ 2023 list […]
