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Federal Contractors/Technology: BILL MONET
An Alaska Native corporation, Akima is the federal arm of the for-profit NANA Regional Corp. owned by more than 14,500 Indigenous Iñupiat shareholders. Akima’s 45 businesses operate throughout the world, with more than 8,000 employees providing a range of services, including construction and facilities maintenance and repair, commercial aviation, information technologies and systems engineering[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: PHEBE NOVAKOVIC
Novakovic attributes Reston-based General Dynamics’ fiscal 2021 revenue of $38.5 billion to the company’s focus on operating performance while protecting the health and safety of the contractor’s 101,600 employees worldwide. A former employee of the CIA and the federal Office of Management and Budget, Novakovic has led the Fortune 100 aerospace and defense contractor since […]
Media: JOSH EASTRIGHT
Eastright began his nearly 25-year career at Bloomberg as a college intern studying political science at Amherst College and then worked for Bloomberg LP, focusing on energy and commodities markets. He later moved to Bloomberg New Energy Finance before shifting to Bloomberg Government. In 2018, Eastright was named CEO of Bloomberg Industry Group, a Bloomberg […]
Transportation: JOSEPH P. RUDDY
As an executive of the Virginia Port Authority’s nonprofit affiliate that operates the Port of Virginia, Ruddy oversees operations, information technology, safety, security and capacity expansion projects and maintenance at the state’s marine terminals in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Richmond and Front Royal, as well as its chassis pool. He took over as chief operations […]
Law: STEPHANIE GRANA
A personal injury litigator, Grana leads the Virginia State Bar for the 2022-23 term. She is the first Hispanic person and seventh woman to head the 84-year-old organization that comprises 50,000 attorneys. Her goals for her term include increasing diversity among the board’s leadership, recognizing bias and working with judges to enhance “bench/bar relations.” During […]
Real Estate: MARK C. LOWHAM
Lowham’s office has been involved in several record-setting transactions in Northern Virginia, where the company has almost 350 associates in brokerage offices spanning the commonwealth’s horse and wine country, as well as Old Town Alexandria, Arlington and McLean. Among their sales were the $45 million McLean estate formerly owned by Jim Kimsey, the late co-founder of America […]
REAL ESTATE: MATT MALONE
Malone, the son of an enlisted sailor and a telephone operator, has said his blue-collar upbringing led him to believe that the U.S. economy undervalues men and women in the skilled trades and blue-collar workforce. His goal with Groundworks, a foundation services company he started in 2016, is to give those workers a career, not […]
2022 Virginia 500: Transportation
ED ALDRIDGE PRESIDENT, CMA CGM AMERICA LLP AND APL NORTH AMERICA, NORFOLK DEVON ANDERS PRESIDENT, INTERCHANGE GROUP INC., MOUNT CRAWFORD JENNIFER AUMENT CHIEF EXECUTIVE, GLOBAL TRANSPORTATION, AECOM, ARLINGTON COUNTY P. DALE BENNETT PRESIDENT AND CEO, VIRGINIA TRUCKING ASSOCIATION, HENRICO COUNTY STEPHEN C. BRICH COMMISSIONER, VIRGINIA DEP[...]
Agriculture: NEIL A. HOUFF
Houff likes to say his company is “an important spoke in someone else’s wheel.” Based in the Shenandoah Valley, Houff Corp. started in 1975 as Houff’s Feed and Fertilizer, a family dairy farm turned fertilizer service provider. Neil Houff has been the company’s president since the early 1990s. Houff Corp. is owned by a family […]
Arts/Entertainment/Sports: BRIDGETTE C. BYWATER
Bywater became the eighth vice president and general manager of Kings Dominion in January 2021 after nearly 30 years in the theme park industry, including about 24 years working at Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. The Hanover County amusement park is a significant tourism draw and seasonal employer for Central Virginia. It was shut down during […]
