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Finance/Insurance: RICHARD FAIRBANK
Before he built a Fortune 500 bank holding company, Fairbank started a swimming school as an undergraduate student at Stanford University, where he later earned an MBA. Then he got his feet wet in finance, working as a banking consultant and landing at Virginia’s Signet Bank, where he co-created the spinoff business that became Capital […]
Media: PAULA KERGER
Kerger is the longest serving president and CEO in Public Broadcasting Service’s 50-year history, with 16 years on the job. PBS is a household name, delivering a huge variety of free programming, from “Masterpiece” to “Arthur.” Its shows are a hallmark of many childhoods. Eighty percent of households in the U.S. watch PBS every year. […]
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 […]
