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Hospitality | Tourism 2024: DOUG BRADBURN
The most popular historic estate in the U.S., Mount Vernon receives about 1 million visitors annually. Bradburn is currently overseeing a privately funded preservation project to ensure the structural integrity of George Washington’s mansion for decades to come. The $40 million project, which started last year and will stretch to 2026, includes designing and installing […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: TODD STOTTLEMYER
With nearly seven years leading Acentra Health, Stottlemyer oversees a health care solutions company that employs approximately 3,000 people across the United States and India. Founded in 1994 as Client Network Services, the company was acquired by Carlyle Group in 2021, then merged with Nashville, Tennessee-based health care management and quality oversight company Kepro. Following […]
Health Care 2024: REESE JACKSON
Since 2016, Jackson has led Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, which includes the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center and nearly 40 practice locations, as well as about 600 physicians serving southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina. Sometimes the job requires Jackson to go to the mat; in April he charged in a newspaper column that Anthem Blue Cross […]
Law 2024: LAURA FOOTE REIFF
Reiff has logged more than three decades of experience representing businesses and organizations in the complicated immigration and compliance legal sphere. Serving as co-manager of the global firm’s Northern Virginia office, Reiff also oversees about 50 attorneys, and she chairs the firm’s Northern Virginia/Washington, D.C., immigration and compliance practice. She co-founded Greenberg Trauri[...]
Professional Services 2024: JENNIFER WOLD
In June, Wold marked her one-year anniversary as the Virginia market manager for Forvis Mazars, a top 10 global accounting firm. Wold came to Virginia from Wichita, Kansas, and oversees the firm’s offices in Richmond and Norfolk. Forvis Mazars was formed this June when Forvis acquired Paris-based audit, tax and advisory firm Mazars’ U.S. arm. […]
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 […]
