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Real Estate 2025: EIN, MARK
Founded in 1972, Kastle Systems is a building and security systems provider that employs 700 people, including over 100 Virginians. An investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Ein also is a minority owner of the Washington Commanders, which plans to build its new stadium on the RFK Stadium site. In March, Kastle bought a majority stake in […]
Real Estate 2025: HYDER, JEFFREY
In 2023, Hyder succeeded Stewart D. Roberson as president and CEO of the architecture firm, as Roberson stepped into the board chair role. Hyder was no newcomer; he joined Moseley in 1993 after earning his bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture. In the past 30 years, Hyder has served as an architect, operations […]
Real Estate 2025: FIORILLO, TONY
Fiorillo began his career at ECS in 1993 as a field technician. In 2020, he was promoted to president of the ECS Group after serving as chief operating officer. Founded in 1988, ECS focuses on geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities engineering; it has grown to more than 100 offices with over 2,900 employees spread […]
Real Estate 2025: NOVACK, DAN
Novack has been president of Balfour Beatty’s building operations in the mid-Atlantic since 2023, tasked with providing strategic oversight for construction operations in Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland and Pennsylvania. He has been with the Dallas-based contracting and management company for more than two decades, providing operational support for approximately $2.5 billion in projects[...]
Real Estate 2025: JOHNSON, ROBB ‘R.J.’
With more than 30 years in the commercial real estate industry, Johnson started working for The Staubach Co. in 1995, ultimately serving as president for the mid- Atlantic region until the firm merged with JLL in 2008. A Fortune Global 500 commercial real estate and investment management company, JLL helps clients buy, build, occupy, manage […]
Real Estate 2025: FAULKNER, TIMOTHY A.
Named CEO in 2022, Faulkner previously served as chief operating officer and president of property management for Breeden, which has about 425 employees in Virginia. Previously, Faulkner was president and COO of Lawton Lumber, and he also worked for American Coating Technologies and Procter & Gamble. As Breeden’s CEO, he oversees a real estate development […]
Real Estate 2025: JENNINGS, JON
Jennings is the third generation to lead the general contracting firm, which was started as a masonry firm in 1952 by his bricklayer grandfather, Lawrence Floyd Jennings. Larry Jennings, L.F.’s son and Jon’s father, joined the company in 1965 and helped expand the business into general contracting. In the 1980s, the company made another shift, […]
Real Estate 2025: PETERSON, JON M.
Founded in 1965 by Peterson’s late father, Milt, Peterson Cos. is responsible for some of the most prominent and successful mixed-use retail, residential and office developments in Northern Virginia and Maryland, including Fairfax Corner, Fair Lakes, National Harbor, Burke Centre and Tysons McLean Office Park. Peterson, who became executive committee chairman in 2016 and CEO […]
Real Estate 2025: DIVARIS, GERALD S.
Divaris co-founded his real estate firm more than five decades ago in South Africa, where he earned degrees in accounting and real estate marketing, and then brought the company to Virginia in 1981. The following year, Divaris Real Estate, one of the companies now under the Divaris Group umbrella, opened its doors in Virginia Beach. […]
Real Estate 2025: KETTLER, ROBERT C. ‘BOB’
While a student at George Washington University in 1974, Kettler got his start in real estate by remodeling apartments. A third-generation builder and the product of a long line of real estate developers, he left school to focus on work. After discovering a passion for community development, he founded real estate development company Kettler in […]
