Recent Articles from Virginia Business
Telecommunications: ERNIE ORTEGA
Ortega has spent his career in the telecom business since the days when a mobile phone couldn’t fit in your pocket. If you saw the movie “Wall Street,” Ortega says, you might recall the Motorola 8000 brick phone — it’s a model he used to sell. Ortega now serves as CEO of GTT Communications, which runs […]
Real Estate: T. RICHARD LITTON JR.
Litton serves as president of HGI, a real estate investment and management firm that reported a gross asset value of more than $19 billion in the first quarter of 2022. The company focuses on office, retail, multifamily and alternative investments throughout the country and the United Kingdom. One of its most famous properties is the […]
Economic Development: Victor Hoskins
Named one of Washingtonian magazine’s 2022 Tech Titans, Hoskins came to Fairfax in 2019 after leading Arlington Economic Development and playing a key role in luring Amazon.com Inc.’s HQ2 East Coast headquarters to Virginia. In Fairfax, he’s continued attracting major businesses and retaining others, including the North American headquarters for StarKist Co. and Volkswagen Group […]
Living Legends: ROBERT DUVALL
Perhaps most famous as Corleone family consigliere Tom Hagen in the first two “Godfather” films, Duvall, 91, is still making movies, 60 years after he first hit the silver screen as Boo Radley in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Since the 1990s, Duvall has lived on a 360-acre farm in Fauquier County, and he formerly co-owned […]
Energy: DIANE LEOPOLD
Entering her 28th year with Dominion, Leopold is responsible for all the Fortune 500 utility’s operating segments, with oversight for Dominion Energy Virginia and Dominion Energy South Carolina, as well as the company’s gas distribution and contracted assets division. In all, she is responsible for nearly 7 million customer accounts and operations in at least […]
Federal Contractors/Technology: WILLIAM J. ‘BILL’ LYNN III
In June, Leonardo DRS, a U.S. subsidiary of Italian defense contractor Leonardo SpA, announced it would merge with Israel-based Rada Electronic Industries Ltd., with plans to go public by the end of this year. Rada will become a wholly owned Leonardo subsidiary, operating under DRS’s Advanced Sensing and Computing segment. Lynn told Defense News that […]
Nonprofits/Philanthropy: TED HART
For 30 years, Charities Aid Foundation of America has enabled cross-border giving by Americans to validated charities and charitable projects worldwide. Hart has led the organization for the last decade. His passion for the nonprofit’s work stems from “the privilege of helping our donor clients bring their dreams and prayers for a better world to […]
Nonprofits/Philanthropy: KEVIN A. LYNCH
During his four-decade career working closely with people who are blind, Lynch says he’s observed firsthand the unlimited capabilities of this largely untapped workforce. “Without a doubt, there is nothing that people who are blind can’t do,” says Lynch, who has led the nation’s largest employment resource for people who are blind since 2008. National […]
Retail/Wholesale: MICHAEL A. WITYNSKI
Fortune 500 discount retailer Dollar Tree, which has more than 15,600 Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores across the continental United States and Canada, raised eyebrows in June with a C-suite shake-up. The company said it would seek replacements for its chief operating officer, chief strategy officer, chief financial officer, chief information officer and chief […]
Transportation: MARK PERRYMAN
In May, Perryman replaced Robert Bowen, who retired after leading Norfolk’s airport since 2016. Perryman’s new job came after a retirement of his own. He worked for more than 25 years for Landrum & Brown, an international airport consulting and design firm, serving as president and chief operating officer for 13 years before becoming CEO […]