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Real Estate 2024: BRENDAN BECHTEL
Serving as CEO since 2016 and chairman since 2017, Bechtel is the fifth generation to lead his family-owned global engineering, construction and project management company. Ranked the nation’s second largest construction company by Engineering News-Record, Bechtel Corp. has completed more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries since its 1898 founding. The firm’s portfolio includes massi[...]
Real Estate 2024: DONALD D. GRAUL
In 2020, Graul joined Branch Group, an employee-owned heavy-highway and building contractor. He had nearly 40 years of industry experience, most recently with Centreville-based Parsons Corp., where he was president of construction and a senior executive for alternative project delivery. Founded in 1963, Branch has more than 1,000 employee-owners and reported over $500 million in […]
Real Estate 2024: BENJAMIN SCHALL
Before becoming CEO in 2022, Schall joined AvalonBay as president in 2021. He’s also a member of the publicly traded real estate investment trust’s board of directors. AvalonBay acquires, develops and manages multifamily communities around the country, primarily focusing on metropolitan areas in New England, the mid-Atlantic, the Pacific Northwest and California. The company reported [[...]
Manufacturing 2024: M. SCOTT CULBRETH
Culbreth joined American Woodmark in 2014 as its senior vice president and chief financial officer. He was promoted to president and CEO and joined its board of directors in 2020. American Woodmark’s cabinet brands include its namesake, as well as Shenandoah Cabinetry, Timberlake Cabinetry and Waypoint Living Spaces. It has more than 8,800 employees. The […]
Law 2024: THE HON. S. BERNARD GOODWYN
It’s little wonder Goodwyn’s classmates at Southampton High School handed him the “most likely to succeed” superlative. Quarterback of the high school football team, Goodwyn was also president of the student body and valedictorian. Goodwyn headed to Harvard, where he played football and ran track. An economics major, Goodwyn graduated magna cum laude. After earning […]
Health Care 2024: MARY N. MANNIX
Following its mission to promote the health of its Shenandoah Valley community, Augusta Health, which Mannix has led since 2008, opened a new community clinic at its main campus in Fishersville in July. Designed for those who do not have a primary care provider or need to be seen quickly, the clinic is staffed by […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: BOB HUGHES
In April, Hughes joined Deltek as its president and CEO, leading a team of more than 4,000 people across the globe — including about 500 in Virginia. Mike Corkery, Deltek’s former leader, moved to an operating executive role at its Florida-based parent company, Roper Technologies. In August 2023, Deltek, a Herndon-based software company, completed its […]
Manufacturing 2024: ASHLEY B. SMITH
Smith, the third generation of his family to lead the precast concrete company, became CEO in 2018 and board chairman in 2022. His grandfather, David G. Smith, started the company in 1960 as Smith-Cattleguard, a nod to the company’s concrete cattleguard innovation. The publicly traded company now has manufacturing facilities in North and South Carolina, […]
Real Estate 2024: GARY BOWMAN
Bowman Consulting Group, founded in 1995 as a five-person company, followed Bowman’s 15-year stint at Urban Engineering. The publicly traded engineering services firm has about 2,000 employees with 97 offices nationwide, nine of them in Virginia. In July, Bowman, who remains chairman and CEO, was succeeded as president by Michael Bruen, the firm’s former chief […]
Government | Politics 2024: SCOTT SUROVELL
In 2023, long-time Democratic Sen. Dick Saslaw’s announcement that he would retire from office after a half-century in the General Assembly left a power vacuum within his caucus. After Democrats narrowly hung onto control of the Senate in November, Surovell edged out Hampton Sen. Mamie Locke for the majority leader post in a contest that […]
