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Health Care 2023: MARK NANTZ
Joining Valley Health in June 2020, Nantz is responsible for overseeing about 6,000 employees and six hospitals, including two in West Virginia. He previously held executive roles at Bon Secours Mercy Health, including as chief administrative officer and president of its Atlantic Group. In January, Valley Health joined West Virginia University Health System, Mountain Health […]
Telecommunications 2023: CHRISTOPHER E. FRENCH
Shentel is focusing on growing Glo Fiber, its optical fiber home and business broadband service. It had more than 138,000 broadband customers at the end of 2023’s first quarter, a period when it added more than 1,000 route miles of fiber to support customers. With 649 employees in Virginia and 845 total, Shentel reported fiscal […]
Professional Services 2023: JASON A. HARTMAN
In 1986, Hartman joined Roanoke-based accounting firm Brown Edwards, which has made Inside Public Accounting’s list of the top 100 U.S. accounting firms based on net reviews for six years running. (It’s ranked at No. 72 this year, rising one spot from 2022.) Responsible for spearheading the company’s financial management, strategic plan, growth and direction, […]
Real Estate 2023: JULIAN G. FRANCIS
Francis joined Beacon Roofing Supply, a Fortune 500 distributor of roofing material and complementary building products, in 2019. Beacon has 7,400 employees and operates in all 50 U.S. states and in Canada. The United Kingdom native and two-time Swansea University graduate previously served as president of the insulation business at Owens Corning, a provider of […]
Education 2023: TROY D. PAINO
It’s been a big year for Paino and the public liberal arts university he oversees. In March, UMW received the largest financial gift in its 115-year history — a $30 million bequest from a 1959 alumna to support undergraduate research and scholarships. The month before, Paino received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ 2023 […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: SCOTT McINTYRE
With 2,910 employees in the greater Washington area and 16,500 employees worldwide, Guidehouse is a global provider of consulting services, with capabilities in management, technology and risk consulting. It was formed in 2018 after Veritas Capital purchased PricewaterhouseCoopers’ U.S. public sector business, for which McIntyre served as managing partner. With the change of ownership, he [&[...]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: TRAVIS HILL
Hill presides over Virginia ABC, a state agency that produced $1.4 billion in 2022 revenue, with $622.8 million going to the state general fund. Before becoming CEO in 2018, Hill served four years as the agency’s chief operating officer and previously was a state deputy secretary of agriculture and forestry. In June, reports emerged that […]
Finance | Insurance 2023: MONICA SCHMUDE
After more than a dozen years with Cigna Healthcare, most recently as its mid-Atlantic market president, in April Schmude stepped into the top position at rival Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which has more than 3 million customers and is one of the state’s largest health plans. She oversees about 9,000 employees. A University […]
Health Care 2023: DENNIS MATHEIS
Last year, Matheis became CEO of Sentara, an $11 billion not-for-profit health system with 12 hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina, employing 30,000 workers, including 1,375 physicians. He succeeded Howard P. Kern, who retired after a 40-year career at Sentara. In May, he oversaw the health system’s rebranding from Sentara Healthcare to the shorter Sentara […]
Health Care 2023: MICHAEL J. LUTES
Lutes came aboard as Bon Secours‘ Richmond market leader in October 2022, weeks after a New York Times front-page exposé focused on how the Cincinnati-based health system made as much as $100 million annually from a hospital in an economically challenged, predominantly Black East End neighborhood. The windfall was due to the federal 340B program, […]
