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Law 2024: FARHAD AGHDAMI
Born in Tehran, Iran, in 1968, Aghdami came to the United States in 1971 when his father joined the faculty of the Medical College of Virginia as an anesthesiologist. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a history degree, Aghdami earned his law degree from Wake Forest University, and a master of laws degree in […]
Real Estate 2024: JACKIE THIEL
Overseeing Long & Foster Real Estate’s 200-plus offices and more than 9,000 real estate agents across eight states and Washington, D.C., Thiel is responsible for the organization’s strategic business direction and operations. The company is owned by The Long and Foster Cos., a subsidiary of HomeServices of America, a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate. Thiel began her […]
Retail 2024: ROBERT A. ‘BOB’ ARCHER
Archer’s career began after earning a business degree from Virginia Tech in 1969, followed immediately by military service and a tour in Vietnam. Upon his discharge in 1972, Archer was named general manager and vice president of Blue Ridge Beverage, the wholesale beer, wine and nonalcoholic distributorship his family has owned and operated since 1959. […]
Retail 2024: WILLIAM D. ‘BILL’ NASH
Nash began at CarMax in 1997 as an auction manager, working his way up to president and CEO in 2016. Founded in 1993 in Richmond as a subsidiary of electronics retailer Circuit City, Fortune 500 company CarMax is the country’s largest retailer of used cars, employing almost 30,000 people, including 3,300 in Virginia. According to […]
2024 Virginia 500: Transportation
DEVON C. ANDERS PRESIDENT, INTERCHANGE GROUP, MOUNT CRAWFORD MONICA BACKMON CEO, NORTHERN VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, FAIRFAX COUNTY RYAN BANAS ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND HRBT EXPANSION PROJECT DIRECTOR, HNTB, NORFOLK JUDY BARRETT PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA MARITIME ASSOCIATION; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, TOWNEBANK, NORFOLK P. DALE BENNETT PR[...]
2024 Virginia 500: Manufacturing
DOUG BASSETT PRESIDENT, VAUGHAN-BASSETT FURNITURE, GALAX BRADFORD ‘BRAD’ BEAUCHAMP PRESIDENT AND CEO, CARPENTER, RICHMOND MANMEET S. BHATIA PRESIDENT AND CEO, TMEIC CORP. AMERICAS, ROANOKE HOWARD BROADFOOT PRESIDENT AND CEO, ELECTRO-MECHANICAL, BRISTOL ESTER CODINA MANAGING DIRECTOR, ALFA LAVAL U.S. SALES; CLUSTER PRESIDENT, NORTH AME[...]
Living Legends 2024: LOUIS ‘LOU’ HADDAD
In the past 40 years, Haddad has spent his career building and shaping the Armada Hoffler construction and development company founded in 1979. In 1985, he started his career there as an on-site construction superintendent, quickly moving up to president of the firm’s construction arm. Nine years later, before he’d even turned 30, Haddad was […]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2024: ALEX NYERGES
Nyerges is now in his 18th year as director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, one of the nation’s top 10 comprehensive art museums. Free to all visitors, the museum opened in 1936 and has more than 545,000 square feet of galleries, event space and dining. In the works is a 170,000-square-foot, $190 million […]
Banking | Finance 2024: LAWRENCE ‘LARRY’ BERNERT III
After Clearstead Advisors, an Ohio-based financial advisory firm, acquired the assets of Norfolk-based Wilbanks Smith & Thomas Asset Management in April, Bernert’s job evolved from principal and portfolio manager to senior managing director for Clearstead Advisory Solutions, which is a division of Clearstead. Previously, WST boasted more than $5 billion of assets under management. Clea[...]
Law 2024: BRADLEY J. LINGO
In the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-25 ranking of the nation’s best law schools, Regent University ranked No. 108 — rising 17 places from the previous year. Part of the private conservative Christian university founded by the late televangelist and cable TV magnate Pat Robertson, Regent’s law school prioritizes “mission over rankings,” Lingo stated […]
