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September 2023 Out and About
1. Virginia Western Community College Associate Professor Jenifer Kurtz helped situate bee colonies into a new home on campus this spring. In July, VWCC announced it had become an affiliate of conservation program Bee Campus USA. Photo by Amy White. 2. L to R: Frankie Holland, Bob Wilkin, Frank Garrett, Benita Jordan, Ginny Coleman, Ralph […]
Living Legends 2023: THE HON. ROGER L. GREGORY
The son of tobacco factory workers, Gregory has spent his life blazing trails. He’s the first person in his family to graduate from high school. After graduating from Virginia State University and the University of Michigan Law School, he and future Gov. L. Douglas Wilder founded a Richmond law firm in 1982. Wilder became the […]
Education 2023: KARL McDONNELL
McDonnell is CEO of Strategic Education, an education services holding company that owns for-profit Strayer and Capella universities, the Jack Welch Management Institute and nondegree schools DevMountain, Hackbright Academy and Sophia Learning. Strategic Education was formed in 2018 by the $2 billion merger of Strayer Education and Capella Education. McDonnell was previously president and CEO [&he[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: REX D. GEVEDEN
Before joining BWXT in 2015 as its chief operating officer, Geveden was an executive at Teledyne Technologies, as well as a chief engineer and associate administrator at NASA, where he ran support contracts for the International Space Station and helped develop next-generation lunar vehicles. In 2017, he became CEO of the Lynchburg-based manufacturer of nuclear […]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: KEVIN MURPHY
It’s been an eventful year for the North American subsidiary of U.K. plumbing and heating products distributor Ferguson, which saw its revenues jump from $22.8 billion in 2021 to $28.6 billion in 2022. In September 2022, the company, which does almost all its business in North America, announced a collaboration with automaker Ford in which […]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2023: KEVIN A. LYNCH
The National Industries for the Blind (NIB) plays a critical role in enhancing the independence of people who are blind by offering career training and connecting them to employment opportunities. Lynch has worked for the NIB and its associated agencies since 1994, serving as president and CEO since 2008. He was instrumental in initiating NSITE, […]
Professional Services 2023: RUSSELL ‘RUSS’ MOORE
Moore has more than 25 years’ experience in providing auditing, accounting and advisory services to large private and public companies, particularly in the consumer and industrial products space. He became the head of Big Four accounting company PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Richmond market in 2018. Moore joined PwC in 1997. Globally, the company has approximately 328,000 people working [&he[...]
Energy 2023: EDWARD H. ‘ED’ BAINE
Baine’s steady rise to the presidency of Dominion Energy’s Virginia operations began when he joined the Fortune 500 utility as an associate engineer 28 years ago. But the seeds of his career were firmly planted when Baine, who grew up on a Lunenburg County tobacco farm, received a full scholarship to Virginia Tech, from which […]
Health Care 2023: ERIK SHANNON
Shannon, who began serving as interim CEO of UVA Community Health in October 2021, became the health system’s permanent CEO in November 2022. A division of UVA Health, UVA Community Health was formerly known as Novant Health UVA Health System. It has three community hospitals in Manassas, Haymarket and Culpeper, as well as a network […]
Transportation 2023: MONICA BACKMON
Backmon brings more than 20 years of transportation experience to her position, in which she oversees long-range planning, prioritization and funding for Northern Virginia regional transportation, with an aim of reducing congestion and funding multimodal transportation projects. Backmon became the NVTA‘s executive director in 2014 and its CEO in 2021. In the past year, the […]
