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Education 2024: TROY D. PAINO
UMW had its most successful fundraising year so far in 2022-23, raising more than $21.36 million in gifts and pledges, including a portion of a $30 million bequest from a 1959 alumna to support undergraduate research and scholarships, announced in March 2023. Last year, Paino received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ 2023 President’s […]
Retail 2024: RICK DREILING
Dreiling’s first year as Dollar Tree’s CEO has seen a continuation of some of the tumult that preceded his time leading the Fortune 500 discount retailer. The chain reported $30.6 billion in revenue in fiscal 2023, but a $1.7 billion loss in the fourth quarter. Following that poor performance, the company announced it would close […]
Banking | Finance 2024: MARK A. FRANTZ
Co-founded by Frantz in 2009, Blue Delta is a venture capital firm that supports growth-stage companies providing technology solutions to the federal government. In April, Blue Delta announced it had invested $25 million in Maryland’s Herrick Technology Laboratories, a provider of software-defined radio (which relies on software rather than hardware to control frequencies) and related [&hellip[...]
Economic Development 2024: CAREN MERRICK
Years before she was appointed to serve in Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration, Merrick and her husband, Phillip Merrick, founded webMethods, a software company that helped businesses connect data from disparate systems via the web. The company grew steadily from the mid-1990s tech boom until the business sold to Software AG in 2007 for $546 million. […]
Economic Development 2024: STEPHANIE LANDRUM
Landrum has led the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership since 2015. She joined the partnership nearly 20 years ago, serving as acting executive director for two years before stepping up to senior vice president. Before coming to AEDP, Landrum was a project coordinator at Southeast Fairfax Development Corp. The site of Alexandria’s shuttered Landmark Mall is […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: CHRISTOPHER D. KASTNER
A graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Pepperdine University, Kastner was tapped as Huntington Ingalls Industries’ president and CEO in March 2022. HII reported revenue of $11.5 billion last year, a 7.3% increase from 2022, and a total project backlog of $43.1 billion as of Dec. 31, 2023. The Fortune 500 company […]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2024: TRAVIS STATON
The United Way of Southwest Virginia named its president and CEO, Staton, to lead Endless Opportunity, or EO, in February. EO is a new nonprofit, spun off of the United Way chapter, focused on workforce development programs. As EO’s leader, Staton manages a $10 million portfolio of grant-funded economic development, workforce training and child development […]
Telecommunications 2024: J.D. MYERS II
Myers joined Cox Communications in 2006 as vice president of the company’s business services, steadily ascending through the ranks to his current position as senior vice president and region manager, east region. He leads the home and business telecommunications and cable TV provider’s day-to-day operations for much of the eastern United States, including Virginia. Cox […]
Living Legends 2024: GREG J. BARONI
With interests ranging from sports, education, technology and health care to philanthropy, Baroni always has been something of a Renaissance man. But while his passions are far-ranging, at his core he always has been focused on innovation and mission-based projects. Attain Partners, which Baroni founded as Attain LLC in 2009, provides strategy, tech and compliance […]
Media 2024: JOSH EASTRIGHT
In 2018, Eastright was named CEO at Bloomberg Industry Group, a Bloomberg affiliate company. His career at Bloomberg had begun more than 25 years earlier, when he was a college intern. He worked for Bloomberg LP, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg Government before becoming Industry Group CEO. Eastright received his bachelor’s degree in political […]
