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Real Estate: STEPHEN BALLARD
Ballard, the company’s founder, has more than 37 years of construction experience and has worked as a project manager, superintendent, estimator, carpenter and laborer. In May, his company raised the first steel beam in the construction of the Rivers Casino Portsmouth as part of a joint venture with Mississippi-based Yates Construction. The $300 million-plus project […]
Real Estate: MARK D. EIN
An investor and entrepreneur, Ein has created, acquired, invested in and built companies across a diverse set of industries. Founded in 1972, Kastle is a provider of building and office security systems. The company may be most recognized lately for the regular reports it releases tracking how many companies have returned to in-person work. At […]
Economic Development: ANTHONY J. ROMANELLO
In 2021, Romanello helped Henrico attract multiple major investments totaling $489 million, including a giant Amazon.com Inc. robotic fulfillment center near Richmond Raceway and expansions of SimpliSafe, Mondelez International Inc. and Red River Foods Groups Inc. This July, QTS Data Centers announced it would be embarking on a 200-acre, 1.5 million-square-foot expansion of its data […]
Finance/Insurance: TRISTAN M. CAUDRON
In 1995, Caudron went to work at the business that today is a Wells Fargo Advisors firm, where he is a certified financial planner and managing director for investments. A native of the Washington, D.C., area, Caudron is an accredited asset management specialist, and a chartered retirement planning counselor. Every year since 2006, he’s been […]
Living Legends: BENJAMIN J. ‘BEN’ DAVENPORT JR.
Davenport is chairman of Davenport Energy, the company his late father started as Chatham Oil Co. in 1941. Davenport Jr. also founded and leads waste management business First Piedmont Corp. Davenport Energy employs 150 people and supplies propane and fuel oil to more than 30,000 customers in Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia. It also […]
Federal Contractors/Technology: TIMOTHY J. ‘TIM’ McBRIDE
When Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd., or ST Engineering, announced its new North American president in October 2021, group President and CEO Vincent Chong leaned on McBride’s credentials, which include more than 30 years at multinational companies and in the public sector. An Eastern Michigan University alum, McBride started his career as an aide to then-Vice […]
Government/Politics: LARRY J. SABATO
A threat across multiple platforms, Sabato is a New York Times best-selling author, a four-time Emmy winner for his PBS television documentaries, and one of social media’s most prolific political prognosticators. No one who knew Sabato in his days as U.Va.’s student government president would be surprised. A Norfolk-born Rhodes scholar with degrees from U.Va. […]
Government/Politics: MARK WARNER
Like his colleague Tim Kaine, Warner served as governor of Virginia before being elected to represent the commonwealth in the U.S. Senate, where he is serving his third term as the state’s senior senator. A moderate Democrat who often works with colleagues across the aisle, Warner chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence and serves on […]
Finance/Insurance: THOMAS S. GAYNER
Come April 2023, Gayner will no longer be flying with a co-pilot. His fellow co-CEO, Richard R. “Richie” Whitt III, plans to retire by the end of next March, after working for the company since 1991. Since 2016, Gayner and Whitt have led Markel Corp., the Fortune 500 financial holding company that has about 20,300 […]
Retail/Wholesale: WILLIAM D. ‘BILL’ NASH
For the fiscal year that ended in February, CarMax, the largest retailer of used autos nationally, had net earnings of $1.2 billion. The fourth quarter, however, did present some challenges, with total used vehicle unit sales in the retail business declining 5.2%. “We believe several macro factors weighed on marketwide used car sales, including […]
