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Real Estate: GEORGE B. CLARKE IV
Clarke founded MEB in 1982, the same year he graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. MEB started as a small federal government contractor with a handful of employees, serving military installations across the Hampton Roads area. It now has about 250 employees and posted revenue of $179 million for fiscal […]
Real Estate: BENJAMIN W. SCHALL
With 3,000 employees, 600 of them in Virginia, AvalonBay Communities, a publicly traded real estate investment trust, recorded $2.3 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2021. Prior to becoming AvalonBay’s president in January 2021 and CEO this year, Schall served as CEO of Seritage Growth Properties and as chief operating officer of Rouse Properties Inc. At Rouse, he […]
Real Estate: LEE WARFIELD
Warfield, Thalhimer’s fourth CEO since the firm’s founding in 1913, has come a long way from his first job as a property manager. He joined the commercial real estate firm as an associate broker in 1995, representing national retailers such as Regal Entertainment, Walmart and Kroger before being promoted to president in 2011. He was appointed […]
Finance/Insurance: FRANCISCO ‘FRANK’ CASTELLANOS
In September 2021, Castellanos became president of Bank of America Hampton Roads following the retirement of Charlie Henderson, who filled that position for 15 years. A native of Cuba, Castellanos is also Merrill Lynch Wealth Management’s top Virginia executive, and he previously worked in Bank of America’s policy office, where he focused on cyber and […]
2022 Virginia 500: Telecommunications
VINCE APRUZZESE JR. PRESIDENT, AT&T VIRGINIA, RICHMOND MATTHEW J. DESCH CEO, IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC., McLEAN CHRISTOPHER FRENCH PRESIDENT AND CEO, SHENANDOAH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CO. (SHENTEL), EDINBURG MAGGIE HALLBACH SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, VERIZON PUBLIC SECTOR, ASHBURN J.D. MYERS II SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT/REGION MANAGER OF VIRGINIA OP[...]
Finance/Insurance: MICHAEL DeVITO
DeVito came aboard as head of Freddie Mac, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., a year ago, replacing CEO David Brickman, who left to run a newly formed commercial agency lending platform. A government-sponsored enterprise, Freddie Mac buys bundles of mortgages from banks and other lenders, freeing up cash so that those lenders can make […]
Finance/Insurance: PETE SNYDER
Snyder lost his bid to be the Republican candidate for governor in 2021, but it didn’t sour him on state politics. Snyder campaigned for Glenn Youngkin last year (he won) and in March, he endorsed state Sen. Bryce Reeves for the Republican primary for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District seat (he lost). While running for office, […]
Media: TIMOTHY O’SHAUGHNESSY
Under O’Shaughnessy’s leadership, Graham Holdings has made the Fortune 1000 list for the last three years. O’Shaughnessy replaced his father-in-law, Donald Graham, as the company’s president and CEO in 2015. O’Shaughnessy was at the company for a year before taking the top spot, working to seek “a new direction” for Graham Holdings after it sold […]
Transportation: P. DALE BENNETT
Bennett, whose father was a trucker for two decades, started working at VTA as an assistant to the executive vice president in 1984. He’s led the nonprofit organization since 1989. VTA advocates for the state’s trucking fleets and industry vendors, which have been hard hit amid the pandemic by driver shortages, supply-chain woes and high […]
