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Transportation 2025: EDWARDS, STEPHEN
The Virginia Port Authority runs the Port of Virginia, which is one of the state’s chief economic drivers. Annually, port-related business and activity account for more than 565,000 jobs, more than $124.1 billion in total spending and $5.8 billion in state and local tax revenues. Meanwhile, Edwards and other port leaders have stayed focused on […]
Transportation 2025: KUHN, CHARLES
At age 16, Kuhn founded JK Moving Services, now North America’s largest independently owned and operated moving company, with $225.5 million in fiscal 2024 revenue. It employs more than 1,300 workers. The company has moved presidents and their families in and out of the White House since George H.W. Bush’s administration, including moving the Trumps […]
Transportation 2025: LAYNE JR., AUBREY L.
Layne, a former state secretary of finance and secretary of transportation under two governors, has worked at Sentara, a 34,000-employee regional health system, since July 2021, overseeing several teams, including legislative affairs, real estate, construction, supply chain, security, compliance, internal audit and privacy. He also chairs the Virginia Port Authority board, which oversees the Port [...]
Transportation 2025: McDANIEL, CHARLES
McDaniel is Hilldrup’s fourth president since the moving, storage and logistics since the moving, storage and logistics company was founded in 1903. The McDaniel family has owned the company since 1940. McDaniel also previously chaired the board for UniGroup, the Missouri- based parent company of United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit. Hilldrup now generates annual revenues exceeding [&hel[...]
Transportation 2025: MEMORY, BEAU
Memory started with Transurban, an Australian transportation company operating express toll lanes in Northern Virginia, in November 2023 after serving as executive director of the Public Highway Authority in Denver. He oversees 155 employees and the company’s toll lanes on the Capital Beltway and i terstates 95 and 395, as well as the A25 Bridge […]
Transportation 2025: MILLER, JERROLD
Founder of The Miller Group, the developer for Fairwinds Landing, Miller is guiding the development of the 111-acre project at Norfolk Southern’s Lambert’s Point Docks in Norfolk. The $500 million development will transform the former docks into a marine logistics center supporting the growth of offshore wind, shipbuilding and intermodal transportation. The project, a joint venture i[...]
Transportation 2025: HALL, KEITH
In 2023, Hall tasked Bob McGonigal, TFI International executive vice president, with helping turn around TFI’s U.S. less-than-truckload operation. Montreal-based TFI purchased TForce, which had lost revenue in the past few years, from UPS in 2021 for $800 million. TFI reported its 2024 net income was $422.5 million, down from $504.9 million in 2023. Alain […]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: SHEEHY IV, VINCE
Sheehy carries on his father’s legacy as an auto dealer, manning the largest dealership group in Virginia and one of the largest in the nation. His late father, Vincent Sheehy III, founded Sheehy Ford in Maryland in 1965 as a suburban business near the newly built Capital Beltway. Sheehy Auto Stores was ranked No. 33 in […]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: WARREN THOMPSON
Thompson became an entrepreneur as a teen, when he purchased and ran his family’s hog farm in Windsor. He now heads the largest minority-owned food and facilities management corporation in the nation, which he founded in 1992 with the purchase of 31 Bob’s Big Boy restaurants. Thompson Hospitality provides dining services for more than 200 […]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: SEVER, MICHAEL
Sever, a longtime Hershey employee, was named plant manager of the candymaker’s Stuarts Draft manufacturing facility in 2022. He had previously been site operations leader at the facility, which produces nut-based candies like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Almond Joy. The plant, which opened in 1982, is the second largest of Hershey’s seven manufacturing sites. Sever managed [[...]
