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Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: STEPHEN TRUNDLE
Trundle has led Tysons-based home security tech company Alarm.com since May 2003. He was chief technology officer at MicroStrategy when Alarm.com was founded in 2000. MicroStrategy sold the spinoff security business to a group of investors in 2009, and Alarm.com went public in 2015. Alarm.com has since been expanding rapidly as the market for connected […]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: WATT R. FOSTER JR.
In 1989, Watt Foster Jr. bought Foster Fuels from his father, the late Watt R. “Bobby” Foster Sr. The younger Foster marks the third generation to run the family business, which was founded in 1921. In June, Foster was named one of 11 winners of Ernst & Young’s 2023 Entrepreneur of the Year Mid-Atlantic Award. […]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: VINCE SHEEHY IV
Sheehy carries on his father’s legacy as an auto dealer, manning the second largest dealership group in Virginia and No. 31 in the nation. His father, Vincent Sheehy III, founded Sheehy Ford in Maryland in 1965 as a suburban business near the newly built Capital Beltway. After graduating from Dickinson College, receiving an MBA from […]
Government | Politics 2023: BARRY KNIGHT
As one of the state’s budget leaders, Knight has been caught up in an election-year tug-of-war that, as of August, prevented an amended 2022-24 budget, despite a $5.1 billion state revenue surplus. Knight is a Virginia Beach Republican who chairs the House of Delegates’ powerful Appropriations Committee, which is charged with finalizing the state’s budget […]
Health Care 2023: DR. MICHAEL J. DACEY
In January, Dacey, Riverside’s president, also became the health system’s CEO, succeeding Bill Downey, who transitioned to executive vice chairman and is remaining in an advisory role until his 2024 retirement. Dacey has also served as chief operating officer at Riverside, which has 9,000 employees and operates seven hospitals in Newport News, Williamsburg, Hampton, Yorktown, […[...]
Law 2023: WENDY COLLINS PERDUE
“If you are not having fun,” says Perdue, “you are not doing it right.” A longtime leader in legal education, Perdue joined the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center in 1982, ultimately becoming an associate dean. Since 2011, she has been the University of Richmond‘s law dean and specializes in civil procedure, conflict of laws, […]
Living Legends 2023: GILBERT T. BLAND
As Urban League of Hampton Roads president and chairman, Bland guides an organization focused on enabling African Americans and others in Hampton Roads to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights through its services and programs. As a James Madison University student, the Harrisonburg native was a standout who ran track, was a charter […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: BRIAN KENNER
When Amazon.com was scouting for potential locations for its East Coast HQ2 headquarters years ago, Kenner was Washington, D.C.’s deputy mayor for planning and economic development, a position in which he worked hard to lure the e-tailer to the district, although ultimately Amazon picked nearby Arlington County. Now, Kenner works for the Fortune 500 goliath […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: KATHY WARDEN
Warden was named CEO of the world’s third largest aerospace and defense company in 2019 after serving as its president and chief operating officer. Ranked No. 38 on Forbes’ 2022 World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list, she previously worked for General Dynamics and Veridian before joining Northrop Grumman in 2008. Ranked No. 113 on the […]
Media 2023: KELLY TILL
In 2022, Till became the first woman to lead the Richmond Times-Dispatch in its 172-year history, after leading Southeastern U.S. regional advertising sales for parent company Lee Enterprises, a position she also holds. Before joining Lee, Till was an ad executive for The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press. An alumna of Old Dominion University, she serves […]
