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Finance/Insurance: THOMAS RANSOM
Although he has a name straight out of a James Bond movie, Ransom opted to go into the sedate field of banking. He’s spent more than two decades in the industry, first at BB&T, where he served as greater Washington, D.C., market president, and then at Truist, the mega bank founded by the 2019 merger […]
Health Care: Dr. DAVID S. JEVSEVAR
With more than 30 years in orthopedic medicine, Jevsevar leads the largest independent orthopedic practice in Virginia. He joined OrthoVirginia in May after spending more than seven years as chair and regional vice president of orthopedics for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics in New Hampshire. Before that, he ran a private medical practice until he […]
Media: CHARLIE WATKINS
Watkins is the CEO of separate but connected Virginia-based companies: Dominion Enterprises and Landmark. Dominion Enterprises is a digital marketing and software services company that was started under the umbrella of the former Landmark Communications, which owned The Virginian-Pilot and other newspapers. Landmark is a media and technology company that owns other media companies. Its […]
Retail/Wholesale: WARREN THOMPSON
A Black History Month event held in February at Smithfield’s Schoolhouse Museum recognized four prominent Black families of the region. Naturally, that list included the Thompsons. Patriarch Fred Thompson Sr. dreamed of attending the University of Virginia but was denied admission because of his race. Instead, he graduated from Virginia State University and worked as […]
Manufacturing: ROB COLLIER
An industrial water-treatment company founded in 1968, ChemTreat promoted Collier to president in July 2021. Now owned by Danaher Corp., ChemTreat is one of the largest specialty chemical companies in the United States and employs about 2,000 people across the Americas. Collier succeeded Steve Hire, ChemTreat’s previous president, who retired after 11 years at the […]
Federal Contractors/Technology: MAHFUZ AHMED
Ahmed is no stranger to Staffing Industry Analysts’ list of most influential industry leaders, having landed on it five times in the 11 years since it was established. He co-founded DISYS in 1994 and has served as its CEO since 1998. It is now one of the largest information technology staffing firms in the country, […]
Federal Contractors/Technology: REX D. GEVEDEN
Geveden, a former associate administrator and chief engineer for NASA, joined BWXT, a nuclear power and component supplier that reported $2.1 billion in revenue last year, as its chief operating officer in 2015, becoming CEO in 2017. A graduate of Murray State University, he logged nearly a decade as an executive at Teledyne Technologies Inc. […]
Finance/Insurance: JANET N. TOPE
Nearly five years ago, Wells Fargo made Tope its regional head for parts of the Richmond, Peninsula and Hampton Roads regions. She oversees 118 retail banking branches and serves as the company’s community ambassador. Tope has worked in banking for more than three decades in Florida and Virginia. Previously, she served as the greater Richmond […]
Finance/Insurance: JEFF WRIGHT
With nearly two decades of experience in the insurance industry, Wright was promoted in February to CEO of Allianz Partners USA, a travel insurance and assistance company. He replaces Elena Edwards, who was promoted to chief markets officer at parent company Allianz Partners Group. Allianz has more than 19,000 workers globally, with about 800 associates […]
Finance/Insurance: MARY McDUFFIE
McDuffie accepted a vice president of marketing position at Navy Federal Credit Union in 1999 because she liked that the top mission of the world’s largest credit union was serving members — not padding shareholders’ pockets. “I was excited by Navy Federal’s commitment to serve those in uniform and their families and the not-for-profit structure […]
