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Retail/Wholesale: LORI RAYA
Raya elected not to spend her first year as Kroger Co.’s mid-Atlantic division president tucked away in her office, hidden from the public eye. In May, she penned an editorial, published in newspapers around Virginia, advocating for the elimination of the state’s grocery tax, a pet initiative of Gov. Glenn Youngkin. “Even without inflation, it […]
Transportation: ROBEY W. ‘ROB’ ESTES JR.
With more about $4 billion in revenue in 2021, Estes Express Lines ranks No. 125 on Forbes’ list of America’s largest private companies. Estes employs more than 20,000 people, though that number may be closer to 30,000 now. Webb Estes, a company vice president and son of CEO Rob Estes, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in […]
Law: RANDALL S. PARKS
After nearly 35 years at Virginia’s second largest law firm, Parks was named chair of Richmond-based Hunton Andrews Kurth’s executive committee in April, succeeding George C. Howell III. A University of Virginia School of Law alumnus who also graduated from U.Va. with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and English literature, Parks previously was co-head of […]
Real Estate: BRENDAN BECHTEL
Bechtel first started working at his family company during summer breaks in high school. After joining full-time, he took on responsibility in field construction, project management and executive leadership. He is the fifth generation of the Bechtels to lead the global engineering, construction and project management company. Bechtel Group’s portfolio includes massive infrastructure and industri[...]
Real Estate: CHRISTOPHER MOLIVADAS
Molivadas oversees mid-Atlantic region properties for international commercial real estate company JLL. His decades of experience began in the late 1980s as a project manager, working for Sargis & Jones and Clark Construction. In 2000, he entered the brokerage world with Spaulding & Slye Colliers before the firm was acquired by JLL in 2005. He’s said that being […]
Manufacturing: JOHN PARKINSON
Parkinson has been CEO at Drake Extrusion Inc. for over 20 years. He is an accounting and finance graduate of the U.K.’s Lancaster University. Drake Extrusion bills itself as North America’s leading producer of polypropylene-based colored filament yarn and staple fiber. Filament yarn is primarily used by customers in the business of producing fabrics for […]
Federal Contractors/Technology: RYAN ANGOLD
As a Navy SEAL, Angold wore wetsuits supplied by the company he now runs. Angold served eight years as a naval special warfare officer after earning an engineering degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, but his military career was cut short by a spinal cord injury in 2004. After that, Angold entered the defense industry, […]
Federal Contractors/Technology: MIKE CORKERY
Deltek has seen a 20% increase in its small business customers since 2020. The company, which has more than 30,000 customers worldwide, makes enterprise software for project-based businesses. In July, Deltek entered into an agreement to purchase Wisconsin-based quality management software company TIP Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed amount, an acquisition set to close in […]
Federal Contractors/Technology: STEPHEN TRUNDLE
Named to Fortune magazine’s 2021 list of the top 100 Fastest Growing Companies for the second year, Alarm.com has grown from a company with a handful of employees in 2003 to having 700 Virginia-based employees and 8.4 million security service subscribers. In 2021 alone, the company brought on more than 350 new hires across all Alarm.com […]
Finance/Insurance: PAUL B. MANNING
Founded by Manning in 2010, PBM Capital is a health care-focused private equity firm that invests in companies in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. The firm’s investment portfolio includes numerous companies, including Xalud Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology startup developing a nonviral gene therapy platform to treat pathologic inflammation; Acumen Pharmaceuticals[...]
