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Manufacturing 2023: DAVID LEDESMA
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Manufacturing 2024: DAVID LEDESMA

Ledesma became the plant manager of DuPont’s Spruance site in 2021 after serving in the same role at its Buffalo, New York, facility. Built in 1929, DuPont’s Spruance site is the largest of the company’s manufacturing facilities worldwide; it has more than 2,000 employees and produces Tyvek, Nomex and Kevlar. In May, DuPont de Nemours […]

Gloria Bohan is the founder, CEO and president of Omega World Travel. Photo courtesy Omega World Travel.
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Living Legends 2024: GLORIA BOHAN

As the founder of the largest woman-owned business in the greater Washington, D.C., area, Bohan has been breaking glass ceilings since before the phrase was invented. Inspired by her honeymoon cruise on the Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1970, she founded her company in 1972 with one employee. It has grown it into a billion-dollar company […]

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Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2024: DANY GARCIA

Garcia, the ex-wife of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is now his part-time neighbor in the horse country of Virginia’s Orange County. Although the couple divorced in 2008 and both are remarried to different partners, Garcia still is the movie star’s global strategic adviser and co-owns Seven Bucks Productions, their film and television production company. She […]

Finance | Insurance 2023: JEAN STACK
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Banking | Finance 2024: JEAN STACK

A look at Baird’s defense and government sector business for 2023 shows that the year proved challenging, with merger and acquisitions down by 24%. Even so, the team managed to close 12 M&A transactions valued at more than $7 billion in aggregate.  In 2024, Baird advised Herndon’s LinQuest, an engineering, data analytics and digital integration […]

Government | Politics 2023: C. TODD GILBERT
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Government | Politics 2024: C. TODD GILBERT

After a 2022-24 stint as speaker of the House during Republicans’ two-year control of that chamber, Gilbert returned to the position of minority leader after Democrats narrowly retook power this year following the 2023 elections. The Shenandoah Valley conservative is a key ally to Gov. Glenn Youngkin in the General Assembly, where Gilbert has served […]

Government | Politics 2023: ROB WITTMAN
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Government | Politics 2024: ROB WITTMAN

Representing parts of the Richmond and Hampton Roads suburbs, as well as the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula, Republican Wittman is wrapping up his eighth term in the U.S. House and will face Democrat Leslie Mehta in November for the chance to serve a ninth. A former environmental health specialist and field director for the […]

Health Care 2023: DR. WILLIAM LUNN
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Health Care 2024: DR. WILLIAM LUNN

In 2023, Lunn was promoted to president of the Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA’s Capital Division, which includes 18 hospitals across three states, including Virginia. In November, officials celebrated the opening of the new Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Salem’s LewisGale Medical Center. The next month, workers began construction on a freestanding emergency room in […]

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Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Health Care 2024: EDWARD A. PESICKA

Fortune 500 health care logistics and supply company Owens & Minor is in the process of moving its headquarters to Henrico’s Innsbrook Corporate Center after selling its Mechanicsville building to the Virginia Department of Transportation for $33.5 million.  Pesicka, who became the company’s chief executive in 2019, announced in 2023 an “operating model realignment program” […]

Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: ARTHUR ‘BO’ FISHER III
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Retail 2024: ARTHUR ‘BO’ FISHER III

Fisher Auto Parts, one of the nation’s largest automotive-parts retailers with 500 locations, is a family affair. Blair Coiner, Bo Fisher’s grandfather, founded the company in 1929 as a small auto-parts sales concern, and it grew under the leadership of Fisher’s father, Art, who died in 2004. A James Madison University graduate, the younger Fisher […]

Transportation 2023: DAVID WHITE
Virginia 500 August 29, 2024

Transportation 2024: DAVID WHITE

A William & Mary alum, White has been at the helm of the Virginia Maritime Association since 2018. He began working with the advocacy organization in 2003, representing the interests of the state’s maritime, logistics and transportation companies. White also serves as executive vice president and secretary for the Hampton Roads Shipping Association and as […]

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Increasingly, data center developers are eyeing sites in parts of the commonwealth outside Northern [...]

Officials envision new life for shuttered state campus

Officials envision new life for shuttered state campus

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Post GreenCity, Henrico tries again

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$35B Capital One-Discover merger closes

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