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Health Care 2024: DR. MARLON LEVY
Levy has held his interim posts for nearly two years since Virginia Commonwealth University leadership pushed Dr. Art Kellermann to resign. Kellermann’s November 2022 exit came shortly before news broke in 2023 that VCU Health had paid approximately $73 million to back out of a $325 million development project that Kellerm[...]
Education 2024: MARCIA CONSTON
Conston became TCC’s sixth president in January 2020, just before the pandemic. Laser-focused on ensuring student success despite the daunting challenge, she guided the college forward with a strategic plan — Innovate 2026 — and a vision “to be the community’s first choice for education, opportunity, partnersh[...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: NEEL DESAI
Desai joined LTD Hospitality Group in 1998 as the second generation of the family-owned hotel development and management company co-founded by Desai’s father in 1983. As a managing principal, he oversees property management and the profitability of its portfolio. Following in those entrepreneurial footsteps, Desai in 2021 [...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: MICHAEL GEORGE
A 40-year hospitality industry veteran, George founded Crescent Hotels & Resorts in 2001. The company operates more than 100 hotels and resorts in the U.S and Canada. Its hotel portfolio includes Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt brands, along with the Latitudes: Lifestyles by Crescent collection of independent hotels and resorts. [...]
Real Estate 2024: CARL L. HARDEE
Hardee has been with Lawson Cos. for more than half of its 52-year tenure, and he became president and CEO in 2016. He oversees a 190-employee real estate company specializing in the development, construction and management of affordable, low-income and market-rate multifamily housing communities. Although the company got its st[...]
Real Estate 2024: MARK DAVID EIN
Founded in 1972, Kastle Systems is a building and security systems provider that employs 700 people, including more than 100 Virginians. An investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Ein also is a minority owner of the Washington Commanders as of 2023. Ein is founder and owner of MDE Sports, which owns the Mubadala Citi DC Open [...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: WILLIAM H. ‘BILL’ DEAN
In August 2023, Dean opened the doors to a new, 168,000-square-foot building on his company’s manufacturing campus in Caroline County, completing a five-year, $63 million phase three expansion that created more than 500 jobs in Virginia. It’s just the latest development for Dean, who grew the relatively small busines[...]
Real Estate 2024: SHAWN TIBBETTS
Tibbetts added the role of president to his chief operating officer position in February, when Armada Hoffler also announced it expects to appoint him as CEO in spring 2025 upon current CEO Louis Haddad’s retirement. Haddad will then serve as executive chairman for a year. A real estate investment trust that operates acros[...]
Government | Politics 2024: LUKE TORIAN
As chair of the House Appropriations Committee, Torian oversees the creation of the single biggest piece of legislation his chamber passes every year: the budget. Difficult in the best of times, the budget process in recent years has been complicated by divided state government. In 2023, with Republicans in control of the House [...]
Health Care 2024: AMY SAMPSON
For more than a year, Sampson has led the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, where she oversees 4,000 employees, but she has worked for the pediatric health system for nearly 35 years. Established in 1961, CHKD offers special units for neonatal and pediatric intensive care, cancer care, acute inpatient reha[...]
Insurance 2024: MONICA SCHMUDE
Schmude doesn’t hesitate to tussle with health care executives. In April, Chesapeake Regional Healthcare distributed a statement complaining that Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield had paid the hospital 25% less than other hospitals in Hampton Roads. By the next month, Schmude had fired off an editorial to The Virginian-P[...]
Law 2024: COURTNEY MOATES PAULK
Paulk has led Hirschler since 2018, when she became the first female president of the now-78-year-old firm, which has more than 90 attorneys in offices in Fredericksburg, Richmond and Tysons, and is the state’s seventh largest law firm. Paulk also heads Hirschler’s litigation section. After graduating from Mary Was[...]
