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Transportation 2024: RANDY CLARKE
Clarke took leadership of WMATA in 2022 and since has been working to increase ridership and add fleets to the Metrorail and Metrobus. One of the transportation system’s biggest challenges has been its budget, with ridership way down from the pandemic and construction costs up during recent inflation. However, Metro avoided a $750 million shortfall […]
Living Legends 2024: JIM McGLOTHLIN
McGlothlin’s story begins in Grundy, where he practiced law as a partner at the firm of Street, Street & McGlothlin until 1970. That year, he became founding partner of United Coal Co., which became a billion-dollar business by the time it was sold in 2009 to a Ukrainian billionaire’s company. The William & Mary alumnus […]
Banking | Finance 2024: JEFF BENTLEY
In September 2023, the Washington Commanders announced a multiyear partnership with Northwest Federal, making it the official credit union of the team and, for a few months, former Commanders quarterback Sam Howell was NWFCU’s spokesperson before being traded to the Seattle Seahawks. Bentley has more than three decades of experience in consumer and commercial lending. […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: GARY J. SHAPIRO
Lawyer, author and lobbyist Shapiro is the longtime leader of the Consumer Technology Association, a trade organization representing more than 1,300 consumer technology companies. CTA owns and produces CES, the world’s largest consumer technology trade show, which has been held in Las Vegas since 1978. With more than three decades at CTA’s helm, Shapiro has […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: JOHN USTICA
Before being named president and CEO in October 2022 of Siemens Government Technologies, the U.S. contracting arm of German tech conglomerate Siemens, Ustica served as its senior vice president and chief financial officer. Now, he oversees a government contracting firm focused on securing and modernizing technology infrastructure. Before joining SGT in 2018, Ustica was a […]
Insurance 2024: THOMAS J. McINERNEY
McInerney has led Genworth Financial, which offers mortgage and long-term care insurance products, since 2013. Genworth posted 2023 revenue of about $7.5 billion, flat from the previous year. Enact, Genworth’s private mortgage insurance subsidiary, had what McInerney described as an “outstanding year,” delivering an adjusted operating income of $552 million. The life and annuities segment, [[...]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2024: M. SANJAYAN
Time magazine named Sanjayan to its inaugural Time100 Climate list in November 2023, recognizing the climate scientist and nonprofit executive as one of the most innovative leaders driving businesses to act on climate change. The magazine praised his skills as a science communicator who has helped Conservation International form important partnerships, such as the Restore […]
Top Five September 2024
The five most popular daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from July 15 to Aug. 15 included news of Liberty University and Jerry Falwell Jr. resolving their legal disputes. 1 | Liberty, Falwell Jr. reach global settlement Liberty University and its former president and chancellor, Jerry Falwell Jr., reached a global resolution agreement settling […]
Real Estate 2024: BOB CLARK
A childhood passion for taking things apart, putting them back together and figuring out how they worked led Clark to Virginia Military Institute for a degree in mechanical engineering. With an MBA from William & Mary, Clark started as a mechanical engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding and served as an Air Force officer for five […]
Real Estate 2024: WHITSON HUFFMAN
At Capital Square, a fast-growing real estate investment fund sponsor and commercial real estate development company established in 2012, Huffman became co-CEO in 2022. The son-in-law of founder and co-CEO Louis J. Rogers, Huffman joined Capital Square in 2018 and was previously chief strategy and investment officer, leading real estate investment activity and overseeing nearly […]
