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Agriculture 2024: MATTHEW RYAN
In June, Rockingham-based Soli Organic made headlines when it opened what may be the world’s largest indoor organic farm in San Antonio, Texas, nurturing 200,000 herb plants a week in its 140,000-square-foot facility. It’s all in a day’s work for the high-tech, soil-based indoor vertical farming company that previously was known as Shenandoah Growers before […]
Banking | Finance 2024: JERMAINE JOHNSON
In addition to leading the Virginia and Washington D.C., metro area operations for Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group, Johnson served as the 2023 chair of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, where he tackled issues such as Metro funding, public safety and downtown revitalization. At a January celebration of Johnson’s tenure, Tim Gillis, the managing […]
Media 2024: MICHAEL STEIB
Steib succeeded David Lougee, who retired Aug. 12, as president and CEO, as well as a board member, of the nation’s largest owner of NBC-affiliate TV stations. Under Lougee’s tenure, New York-based hedge fund Standard General’s $5.4 billion bid to acquire Tegna in May 2023 was terminated. Steib, a University of Pennsylvania alumnus, came to […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: RYAN ANGOLD
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former Navy SEAL, Angold leads a company that was named the 24th largest federal contractor in 2019. Angold left the military in 2005 and joined Blackbird Technologies, a solutions provider for the intelligence community that’s now part of RTX. After a stint at VP Expeditionary Programs in […]
Insurance 2024: TOM BROWN
In 1916, Thomas Rutherfoord launched an insurance agency in Roanoke. Flash forward to 1979: Brown, Rutherfoord’s grandson, started his own insurance career at the family business. In 1983, Brown moved from the Star City to Richmond to open a Rutherfoord office there with one employee. Brown became president of the company in 1998 and CEO […]
Law 2024: WENDY COLLINS PERDUE
In October 2023, the University of Richmond celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first woman graduating from Richmond Law — only 25 years after U.S. women were allowed to serve on juries. Times have changed. In 2023, 39% of all U.S. lawyers were women, according to the American Bar Association. Today, 55% of all law […]
2024 Virginia 500: Telecommunications
VINCE APRUZZESE JR. PRESIDENT, AT&T VIRGINIA, RICHMOND MATTHEW J. DESCH CEO, IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS, McLEAN CHRISTOPHER E. FRENCH CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, SHENANDOAH TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SHENTEL), EDINBURG MAGGIE HALLBACH SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, VERIZON PUBLIC SECTOR; PRESIDENT, VERIZON FRONTLINE, OAKTON MICHAEL KEEGAN CEO, TRANSACTION [...]
Real Estate 2024: JON JENNINGS
Jennings is the third generation to lead the general contracting firm, which was started as a masonry firm in 1952 by his bricklayer grandfather, Lawrence Floyd Jennings. Larry Jennings, L.F.’s son and Jon’s father, joined the company in 1965 and helped expand the business into general contracting. In the 1980s, the company made another business […]
Manufacturing 2024: MANMEET S. BHATIA
Bhatia has held the position of president and CEO of TMEIC Corp. Americas, a regional subsidiary of the Japanese-owned Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp., since 2021. During his career at TMEIC, Bhatia has served as chief operating officer for the North American branch and held executive positions in Europe and Asia. He has been with […]
Agriculture 2024: GEORGE C. FREEMAN III
Universal Corp.’s CEO since 2008 and president since 2006, Freeman is a Richmond native at the helm of the world’s largest supplier of tobacco leaf. Freeman previously served as the corporation’s general counsel and secretary from 2001 to 2005; before, he worked at law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth (then Hunton & Williams) in the early […]
