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Manufacturing 2024: ASHLEY B. SMITH
Smith, the third generation of his family to lead the precast concrete company, became CEO in 2018 and board chairman in 2022. His grandfather, David G. Smith, started the company in 1960 as Smith-Cattleguard, a nod to the company’s concrete cattleguard innovation. The publicly traded company now has manufacturing facilities in North and South Carolina, […]
Real Estate 2024: GARY BOWMAN
Bowman Consulting Group, founded in 1995 as a five-person company, followed Bowman’s 15-year stint at Urban Engineering. The publicly traded engineering services firm has about 2,000 employees with 97 offices nationwide, nine of them in Virginia. In July, Bowman, who remains chairman and CEO, was succeeded as president by Michael Bruen, the firm’s former chief […]
Government | Politics 2024: SCOTT SUROVELL
In 2023, long-time Democratic Sen. Dick Saslaw’s announcement that he would retire from office after a half-century in the General Assembly left a power vacuum within his caucus. After Democrats narrowly hung onto control of the Senate in November, Surovell edged out Hampton Sen. Mamie Locke for the majority leader post in a contest that […]
Banking | Finance 2024: TRISTAN CAUDRON
Caudron leads the newly named RiverFront Wealth Advisors, formerly known as Caudron Megary Blackburn Wealth Management Group, a member of the Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network. A native of Washington, D.C., Caudron earned a bachelor’s in economics and psychology at Georgetown University. His background in “behavioral finance,” Caudron has said, helps him advise clients because […[...]
Professional Services 2024: HARVEY L. JOHNSON
Having joined accounting and consulting firm PBMares in October 2003, Johnson had nearly two decades of experience at the accounting and consulting firm when he took over the helm from co-founder Alan S. Witt in January 2021; to date, Johnson is only the second person to lead PBMares. Before becoming CEO, Johnson served as practice […]
Living Legends 2024: NANCY HOWELL AGEE
In April, Agee received the American Hospital Association’s Distinguished Service Award, the organization’s highest honor, recognizing “significant lifetime contributions and service to health care institutions and associations.” Agee, who has led Carilion Clinic since 2011, announced her retirement in July. Carilion President Steve Arner will take over Oct. 1 as CEO of the $2.4 billion [&[...]
Media 2024: JAYME SWAIN
Swain leads VPM, a network of television, radio and digital media outlets across the Central Virginia and Shenandoah Valley regions that reaches nearly 2 million people. The foundation manages its endowment. Before joining VPM in 2019, Swain spent nearly a decade as senior vice president of strategy and operations at the Arlington-based Public Broadcasting Service. […]
Transom Capital-backed BridgeTower Media acquires Virginia Business to cover nation’s “Top State for Business”
LOS ANGELES and GREENSBORO, NC — BridgeTower Media, the authoritative source for business insights, data-driven marketing solutions and events across more than 40 media and research brands, is acquiring Virginia Business. Virginia Business is the only publication dedicated to covering economic activity in every sector and every region of the state of Virginia. More than […]
