People – June 2017

EASTERN VIRGINIA
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has added several trustees:    Carly Fiorina   , former Hewlett-Packard CEO;   Conrad M. Hal   l,  former president and CEO of Norfolk-based  Dominion Enterprises;  Joseph W. M ontgomery , managing director of The Optimal Service Group of Wells Fargo Advis ors; and Gerald L. Shaheen, retired  group president of Caterpillar Inc. Janet M. Brashear has been named a director of the Colonial Williamsburg Co. (VirginiaBusiness.com) 

 Bil l Brundage has been named chief financial officer of Newport News-based Ferguson. He succeeds Dave Keltner. Brundage joined Ferguson in 2003, holding several positions. Most recently he was senior vice president of finance. (News release)

Matt Mulherin, who helped guide Newport News Shipbuilding through a corporate spinoff and completion of a next-generation aircraft carrier, will retire as company president Aug. 1. Taking the helm will be Jennifer Boykin, the vice president of engineering and design at the shipyard. She also will serve as executive vice president at its parent company, Huntington Ingalls Industries.  (Daily Press)

The Virginia Chamber of Commerce named the following executives to its board of directors: Timothy Bentley, Norfolk Southern; Gilbert T. Bland, The GilJoy Group; Bill Downey, Riverside Health System;  Jim Kibler , Virginia Natural Gas; and William Tavenner, Ferguson Enterprises.  (News release)

SHENANDOAH VALLEY
Ernie Carnevale, CEO of the Blue Ridge Hospice of Winchester, will retire this year. He has served as CEO since 1999. Carnevale oversaw the creation of the Inpatient Care Center in Winchester, the organization’s main office, and established satellite offices in Berryville, Front Royal and Woodstock.  During his time, Blue Ridge Hospice has grown from serving 40 patients to 250 patients a day. (Northern Virginia Daily)

Misty Cook has been selected as the new finance director for Augusta County. Cook holds a bachelor's degree in management and organizational development from Eastern Mennonite University and is studying for a master's in business administration from Liberty University. She was honorably discharged from the Virginia Army National Guard. Cook comes to Augusta after serving as practice manager for Rockingham Dermatology for the past six years. (The News Virginian)

Harold Felton has been named director of Mary Baldwin University’s Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences Physician Assistant (PA) program, effective July 1. Felton has been in PA education for more than 10 years. Most recently he was the associate director at Touro College in Manhattan. (News Leader)

Wyatt Pearson is Strasburg’s new town manager. Pearson, who was the town’s planning and zoning administrator, joined the Strasburg staff in fall 2014. He replaces Ryan Spitzer, who left to become town manager in Pineville, N.C. (Northern Virginia Daily)

Frank M. Tamberrino, president and CEO of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce, has been named to the Virginia Chamber of Commerce board of directors. (Press release)

SOUTHERN VIRGINIA

Dawn H. DeHart has joined Martinsville-based Carter Bank & Trust as senior vice president and director of community development lending. She is based at the bank’s Langhorne Road office in Lynchburg. The Buena Vista native has 30 years of experience in banking and finance. (News release)

Joe Gravely, a nursing instructor at Patrick Henry Community College (PHCC) since 1988, has retired. In 1975, Gravely became the first African-American male nurse at Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County. When he started his career at PHCC, Gravely was the first male nursing instructor in the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Martinsville Bulletin)

Kelvin G. Perry has joined the Danville Office of Economic Development as project manager. Perry assumed his responsibilities with the city on April 3. Before then, he was employed for 16 years by First State Bank as chief operating officer and then as president and CEO. (Danville Register & Bee)

Loretta Reams has been hired as clerk/treasurer of the Town of Dillwyn. She has worked as a legal assistant with the America Law Group in Blackstone. (The Farmville Herald)

SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
Candi Blair began her role in April as executive director of Bristol’s Family Promise, which provides temporary housing and job placement assistance for homeless families. She replaces Angie Sproles, who left earlier this year to take a position with a local food bank. Blair worked for Abuse Alternatives for more than 20 years, advancing from a part-time secretary to the interim executive director position. For the last two years, she worked at Frontier Health’s corporate offices in Gray, Tenn. (Bristol Herald Courier) 

Laken Brooks, a senior at Emory & Henry College in Washington County, is the college’s first Fulbright Student Award winner ever. Through the Fulbright program, Brooks will participate in the English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program in Poland this fall where she will work with various departments at Polish universities teaching English as a second language. The Fulbright Program awards 8,000 grants annually, including 1,900 grants to U.S. students. (News release) 

Ben Rosado is Tazewell’s new recreation director. Rosado, a native of Sterling, attended Bluefield College and majored in sports medicine. He replaces Travis Barbe, who moved from the area. (SWVAToday.com) 

NORTHERN VIRGINIA

San Mateo-Calif.-based Marketo has appointed  Reggie Aggarwal,  founder and CEO of Tysons-based Cvent, to its board of directors. Cvent and Marketo are owned by Vista Equity Partners. (Meetings-Conventions.com) 

Herndon-based online education company K12 Inc. has named  Ai da M. Alvarez to its board of directors. Alvarez was administrator of the  U.S. Small Business Administration under President Bill Clinton. (VirginiaBusiness.com) 

The following leaders of Northern Virginia-based companies have been named mid-Atlantic finalists for EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award:     Rami Essaid,    co-founder and CEO, Distil Networks;   R  ohyt Belani, co-founder and CEO, PhishMe;    Ashish Kachru   , co-founder and CEO, Altruista Health;   Mike Baird  , CEO and partner,  Avizia; S ukumar Iyer, fou   nde r, president and CEO, Brillient Corp.; Carroll Ross, founder and CEO, Collaborative Solutions; Dev Ganesan, CEO, Fishbowl; Amit Puri, president and CEO, Ingenicomm; Kevin Kelly, CEO, LGS Innovations; Amy Wright, president and CEO, Macro Solutions; Joe Fluet, CEO and chairman, MAG Aerospace; Rick Torres, president and CEO, National Student Clearinghouse; George Zoulias, president, Perfecta Federal;   Julian Setian  , president and CEO, SOS International (SOSi);  Adam Vincent , CEO, ThreatConnect and Chris Spanos, CEO and co-founder, Urgent.ly. Regional award winners wil l be considered for the Entrepreneur of the Year national program, which will be announced in November. (VirginiaBusiness.com)  

Adam Fried, CEO of Fredericksburg-based Atlantic Builders Ltd.; John G. Milliken, senior fellow in residence at the Schar School of Policy and Government at Fairfax-based George Mason University and Dan Pleasant, chief operating officer of Fairfax-based Dewberry, have been appointed to the Virginia Chamber of Commerce board of directors for 2017. (News release) 

Christine Kallivokas, chief operating officer of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, and John “Jack” Roberts, a former Loudoun County attorney, have joined the Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation board of trustees. The foundation oversees Morven Park, a 1,000-acre historic estate and horse park in Leesburg. (News release) 

Reston-based cybersecurity firm Neovera Inc. has appointed Al Morisato chief operating officer. Morisato was chief operations and technology officer with the Washington, D.C.-based Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. (VirginiaBusiness.com) 

Art Richer has been named president and CEO of DLT Solutions, Herndon. Richer was president and CEO at McLean-based immixGroup, leading its sale to Arrow Electronics in 2015. (News release) 

Patrick Steel, an investment banker for 16 years at FBR Capital Markets & Co., is the new CEO of Arlington-based media company Politico. Owner Robert Allbritton, who had been filling the CEO role since the departure of Jim VandeHei in early 2016, resumed his position as publisher and executive chairman in May. (Politico.com) 

Nisha Thakker has been appointed senior director of strategic partnerships, a newly created position, at the Fairfax-based Northern Virginia Association of Realtors. Thakker was the organization’s associate general counsel. (News release) 

CENTRAL VIRGINIA
Diane Long Cafritz has been promoted to the newly created position of chief human resources officer and senior vice president at Richmond-based CarMax Inc. Cafritz joined CarMax in 2003 and was promoted to vice president in 2014. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

Corey Clayborne will become executive vice president/CEO of the Richmond-based American Institute of Architects (AIA) Virginia on June 1. Clayborne will work in conjunction with departing AIA Virginia Executive Vice President/CEO Helene Combs Dreiling whose last day is June 30. Clayborne currently is a project manager and senior architect with Wiley|Wilson. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

Matthew S. Gibson has been named executive director of the Charlottesville-based Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH). He will succeed Robert C. Vaughan III, who will retire in June after leading VFH for 43 years. Gibson has worked for the organization for 11 years, as its director of digital initiatives and the creator and editor of its Encyclopedia Virginia. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

Hunton & Williams LLP named George C. Howell III to succeed F. William Brownell as chair of the law firm’s executive committee for the fiscal year. Brownell will serve as vice chair. Howell, who works out of the firm’s New York and Richmond offices, headed the firm’s tax and employee benefits practice. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

ROANOKE/NEW RIVER VALLEY
The Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce presented the following awards:    Joyce Beliveau   , owner of Beliveau Estate Winery, Accomplished Business Woman of the Year;   Kelly Kendrick,   vice president of commercial lending with First Bank & Trust, Emerging Business Woman o f the Year;   Kiyah Duffey  , owner of  Kizingo, Spirit Award;  Anne Giles , founder of Handshake M edia, Spirit Award; and  M argie Vitali, vice president of the bo ard for the Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Pro gram, Community Builder Award. (The Roanoke Times) 

The American Chiropractic Association re-elected Christiansburg resident N. Ray Tuck as chairman and governor of its board of governors during its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Tuck is president of Tuck Chiropractic Clinic, a group practice with 11 locations in Southwest Virginia. (News release) 

Robert Wills has joined Branch Group Inc. of Roanoke as CFO. He was executive vice president and CFO of the America’s region for Germany-based M&W Group. Branch Group also promoted Melanie F. Wheeler to senior vice president and board member. She has been with The Branch Group since 1994, holding several positions, including director of accounting, vice president of administration and treasurer. (VirginiaBusiness.com)