Recent Articles from Virginia Business
Real Estate 2024: CHRIS WILLIAMS
Williams serves as senior vice president for Fortune 500 discount retailer Dollar Tree’s real estate portfolio, a position in which he leads Summit Pointe Realty, the entity developing Summit Pointe. Dollar Tree formed the Summit Pointe Realty subsidiary in 2015 after acquiring North Carolina-based Family Dollar Stores for $8.5 billion. Williams joined Dollar Tree in […]
Manufacturing 2024: NEIL D. WILKIN JR.
Wilkin was named Optical Cable’s chairman and CEO in September 2003. Those titles joined his other roles as Optical Cable’s president and board member. Wilkin joined Optical Cable in 2001 as senior vice president, chief financial officer and director. He became acting president in December 2001, in addition to his role as CFO, and was […]
Economic Development 2024: JASON EL KOUBI
As VEDP’s leader since 2022, El Koubi oversees numerous initiatives designed to attract outside companies to locate in the commonwealth and to help Virginia businesses expand operations. He’s also responsible for growing economic awareness of Virginia globally, as evidenced by the Virginia trade office in Taiwan that VEDP opened in September 2023, after Gov. Glenn […]
Economic Development 2024: ANTHONY J. ROMANELLO
Henrico County is poised to be home to a large technology campus on more than 600 acres not far from the Richmond Airport, after the Board of Supervisors greenlit in May a request for rezoning from developer Hourigan. The project could eventually be home to multiple data centers and light manufacturing facilities. The development would […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: JILL SINGER
In September 2023, Singer began her new role as AT&T’s vice president of federal solutions. In this role, Singer works to advance the adoption of 5G capabilities and promote network modernization efforts to support government missions. This effort includes everything from helping first responders communicate during disasters to enabling the U.S. Air and Space forces […]
Professional Services 2024: THOMAS L. MILBURN
Last October, Milburn was tapped as the new CEO for YHB, the accounting services firm where he began his career in 1997. Each YHB CEO serves a five-year term, and Milburn succeeds C. Scott Moulden, under whose leadership the firm acquired five accounting firms and grew to 300-plus employees, expanding into Maryland and developing its […]
Real Estate 2024: CHRIS CLEMENTE
Clemente is the son-in-law of NVR founder Dwight Schar, who is a co-owner of Comstock Holdings and Comstock Partners with Clemente. Founded in 1985, the privately held Comstock is among the mid-Atlantic’s largest developers of mixed-use and transit-oriented developments. Comstock’s 2023 revenue was $44.7 million, with a managed portfolio of 49 properties. It’s best known […]
Banking | Finance 2024: THEODORE L. ‘TED’ CHANDLER JR.
Chandler has decades of business and legal experience to share with entrepreneurs as one of NRV’s founders. In 2011, he co-founded the startup investing firm — then known as New Richmond Ventures — with fellow Richmond business leaders Jim Ukrop and Bob Mooney. Today, the firm financially contributes to the Farmer Focus organic meat brand, Norfolk-based […]
Economic Development 2024: NANCY GRDEN
A longtime economic development and maritime leader in Hampton Roads, Grden was key in overseeing the 2023 merger of Reinvent Hampton Roads and the Hampton Roads Business Roundtable, resulting in the creation of the Hampton Roads Executive Roundtable, which she now leads. Previously, she was director of the Hampton Roads Maritime Collaborative for Growth & […]
Economic Development 2024: DOUG SMITH
In the first few months of 2024, freight business Total Quality Logistics announced it would open a new location in Norfolk, and Australian company Quality Maritime Surveyors said it was expanding to the Hampton Roads area. The announcements continue momentum from 2023, when the Hampton Roads Alliance’s 13 new project announcements represented more than 2,800 […]