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Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Agriculture 2024: CORWIN HEATWOLE

Sixth-generation chicken farmer Heatwole started his 100% organic and humane-certified chicken company in 2014. Originally named Shenandoah Valley Organic but rebranded as Farmer Focus in 2020, the company lets farmers own their flocks, receive fair compensation and make key decisions. In August 2023, Farmer Focus announced that Stephen J. Shepard, the company’s president and chief […]

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Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Banking | Finance 2024: JOHN C. ASBURY

In April, Atlantic Union Bankshares, the holding company for Atlantic Union Bank, completed its acquisition of Danville-based American National Bankshares, parent company of American National Bank and Trust — a transaction valued at about $507 million. The combined bank has $24.3 billion in total assets, $19.4 billion in deposits and $17.9 billion in total loans, […]

Leadership: The Virginia Power 50 List
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: DAVID LEVY

In October 2023, Levy was tapped to lead Amazon Web Service’s worldwide public sector business, overseeing government contracting activities for Amazon.com’s cloud computing subsidiary, as well as business for educational, nonprofit and health care organizations. In 2023, AWS recorded $90 billion in net sales, up from $80 billion in 2022. Last year, AWS announced it […]

The Power 50
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: PHEBE N. NOVAKOVIC

Novakovic has led General Dynamics, the world’s sixth largest aerospace and defense company, since 2013. During her tenure as CEO, General Dynamics won the Navy’s largest-ever contract, up to $24.2 billion, to build nuclear submarines. The Fortune Global 500 company employs more than 100,000 people and recorded $42.3 billion in revenue for fiscal 2023, a […]

Health Care 2023: ANTHONY ‘TONY’ BAKER
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Health Care 2024: ANTHONY ‘TONY’ BAKER

Baker leads Fortune 500 pharma manufacturer Merck’s vaccine operations in Elkton. The company founded a plant in the Rockingham County town in 1941. Early in his career, Baker spent seven years at Pennsylvania-based Biopharm Project Solutions as a senior process specialist. He joined Merck in 2008 as a process engineer and went on to engineering […]

Real Estate 2023: LAURA D. LAFAYETTE
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Real Estate 2024: LAURA D. LAFAYETTE

Between her leadership positions with the Richmond Association of Realtors and the Central Virginia Regional Multiple Listing Service, Lafayette serves more than 6,800 Realtors in Central Virginia. This year, she’s become an even more powerful voice in the Richmond real estate community in the wake of a landmark court settlement that’s changing how homeowners buy […]

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Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Real Estate 2024: JON M. PETERSON

Founded in 1965 by Peterson’s late father, Milt, Peterson Cos. is responsible for some of the most prominent and successful mixed-use retail, residential and office developments in Northern Virginia and Maryland, including Fairfax Corner, Fair Lakes, National Harbor, Burke Centre and Tysons McLean Office Park. Peterson, who became executive committee chairman in 2016 and CEO […]

Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: DREW PARKER
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Retail 2024: DREW PARKER

Carter Machinery has deep roots in Virginia, tracing back to 1928, when Robert Hill Carter founded Virginia Tractor in Richmond. The company was the state’s first Caterpillar dealership, and it is still going today as an independent dealer with more than 30 locations. It has more than 2,300 employees in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware […]

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Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Transportation 2024: RYAN BANAS

Banas oversees the $3.9 billion Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion, the largest highway construction project in Virginia’s history and one of the largest infrastructure projects in the country. Milestones this year included one on April 17 when the tunnel boring machine, nicknamed Mary, completed its much-anticipated journey to North Island, broke through the headwall and created […]

Transportation: ED ALDRIDGE
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Transportation 2024: SHEPPARD ‘SHEP’ MILLER III

A former defense contracting executive and Norfolk native, Miller was appointed secretary by Gov. Glenn Youngkin in 2022. He is responsible for Virginia’s rail, roads, transit and ports. As chair of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, Miller has a great deal of say on the state’s transportation funding of major road expansion and improvement projects, as […]

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Federal funding repeals could halt rural broadband expansion

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Danville invests $3 million to prep Coleman site

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