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Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2024: BRIDGETTE C. BYWATER
Under Bywater’s leadership since 2021, the 49-year-old Kings Dominion theme park continues to seek out new concepts and ideas to entice and excite guests. The 400-acre amusement park is home to more than 60 rides, shows and attractions, including 13 roller coasters and Soak City, a 20-acre waterpark. The latest thrill is a new ride, […]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2024: DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON
Known as “The Rock,” Johnson shot to fame as a professional wrestler and is now one of the nation’s most popular and prolific movie and TV actors. He’s also been a relatively quiet resident of Virginia for several years, he acknowledged on social media posts in 2019. Johnson owns a horse farm in Orange County […]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: NICK PATEL
Born in West Bromwich, England, Patel relocated to the United States in 1982. He earned a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992, but his entrepreneurial spirit led him in a different direction. He opened a Sleep Inn in Richmond in 1996 with his parents’ support, and Kalyan Hospitality was born. Kalyan, […]
Government | Politics 2024: LARRY SABATO
Virginia’s most notable political pundit, Sabato is the founding director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, breaking ground on a $10 million expansion. Widely quoted by national media, Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter, which handicaps political races, has maintained a high accuracy rate, although its prediction of […]
Professional Services 2024: MARK ELLENBOGEN
In July, BDO USA tapped Ellenbogen as its new chief operating officer, making him responsible for every business aspect of the U.S. member firm of BDO International, the fifth largest global accounting network. A member of BDO USA’s board of directors, he has chaired the firm’s governance committee and was a key player in establishing […]
Real Estate 2024: RYAN T. McLAUGHLIN
Head of one of the country’s largest regional Realtor associations, McLaughlin came to NVAR in 2015 after serving the Greater Lehigh Valley Realtors in Pennsylvania for more than a decade. This year, McLaughlin was named to T3 Sixty’s 11th annual Swanepoel Power 200 rankings of the nation’s top real estate executives, marking the first time […]
Transportation 2024: AUBREY L. LAYNE JR.
Layne, a former state secretary of finance and secretary of transportation under two governors, has worked at Sentara since July 2021, overseeing several teams, including legislative affairs, real estate, construction, supply chain, security, compliance, internal audit and privacy. He also chairs the Virginia Port Authority board, which oversees the Port of Virginia, one of the […]
Law 2024: CALVIN W. ‘WOODY’ FOWLER JR.
In March, Williams Mullen tapped Fowler to serve a fourth three-year term as the president, CEO and chairman of the state’s third largest law firm. Under Fowler’s tenure, Williams Mullen, which has 437 employees, has enjoyed nine consecutive years of increased revenue and profits that increased by an average of 11.2% each year. A graduate […]
Banking | Finance 2024: BRIAN HOLLAND
Holland went to work at a mortgage company after graduating with a finance degree from Old Dominion University in 1993. Three years later, he founded Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group. Today, the company has more than 800 employees and 139 branches across 17 states. Holland’s stepbrother, Stan Holland, is the firm’s president. Although many in the […]
Banking | Finance 2024: HANS VonKRUGER
In July, VonKruger joined two fellow members of Bank of America’s Native American Professional Network, along with a few other coworkers, at the Indigenous Voices of the Americas reception in Washington, D.C. “I am so grateful to work for an organization that celebrates cultural experiences,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “We are far more alike than […]
