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Government Contractors | Technology 2025: NOVAKOVIC, PHEBE N.
Novakovic has led General Dynamics, one of the world’s largest aerospace and defense companies, since 2013. During her tenure, General Dynamics, with Newport News Shipbuilding as a subcontractor, won the Navy’s largest-ever shipbuilding contract, worth up to $24.2 billion, to build nuclear submarines. The Fortune Global 500 company employs over 100,000 people and reported $47.7 [&helli[...]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: ORTBERG, ROBERT K. ‘KELLY’
In August 2024, Ortberg succeeded Dave Calhoun as the Fortune Global 500 aerospace and defense giant’s chief executive. Ortberg is the retired president and CEO of Collins Aerospace, previously Rockwell Collins and now absorbed into Arlington-based defense contractor RTX. He serves on the Aerospace Industries Association’s executive committee. Boeing’s commercial jet sector’[...]
Education 2025: RAO, MICHAEL
After a bumpy year for Rao and VCU in 2024 — first an ongoing dispute over VCU Health paying $73 million to exit a redevelopment project, followed in the spring by a violent clash between VCU police and pro-Palestinian protesters — the Richmond-based school had some good news. The school announced plans to convert the […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: LYNCH, KIM
Lynch joined Fortune 500 tech company Oracle in 2023. As Oracle’s executive vice president of government intelligence and defense, Lynch has executed Oracle’s growth strategy and driven innovation in cloud technology. For fiscal 2025, Oracle announced revenues of $57.4 billion, up 8% from the previous year. As the Trump administration seeks to streamline government agencies, […]
Education 2025: MAHONEY, PAUL G.
A former dean of the University of Virginia School of Law and a longtime faculty member, Mahoney was named in August as the university’s interim leader. He will serve until U.Va.’s board can find a permanent replacement for former leader Jim Ryan, who resigned as head of the state’s flagship university under pressure from the […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: McINTYRE, SCOTT
McIntyre was retained as CEO after Guidehouse, a federal contractor and global provider of technology and consulting services, was acquired by a Bain Capital Private Equity affiliate for $5.3 billion in 2023. Guidehouse was previously owned by Veritas Capital since 2018. Employing about 18,000 people in 55 locations across the globe, Guidehouse was formed when […]
Education 2025: ADAMS-GASTON, JAVAUNE
Under Adams-Gaston’s leadership since 2019, Norfolk State has racked up achievements ranging from regularly ranking among U.S. News & World Report’s top 20 historically Black colleges and universities to attaining a 10-year reaffirmation of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. The public university attracted big-dollar donation[...]
Health Care 2025: DAVIS, MELINA
In 2014, Davis became executive vice president of MSV, a trade organization that represents more than 30,000 physicians, physician assistants, residents and medical students. Four years later, she took the helm as CEO. MSV successfully advocated for laws to allow Virginia health care professionals to seek mental health care and help for career fatigue without […]
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: DEAN, WILLIAM H. ‘BILL’
In 2023, Dean opened the doors to a new, 168,000-square-foot building on his company’s manufacturing campus in Caroline County, completing a five-year, $63 million phase three expansion that created more than 500 jobs in Virginia. It’s among several expansions for Dean, who grew the small business that his grandfather started in 1949 as an electrical […]
Education 2025: PAINO, TROY D.
In 2024, UMW introduced three new majors (applied mathematics and statistics, data science as well as management and entrepreneurship) and three new minors (disability studies, global history and professional writing). The school also signed a partnership with the University of Virginia, streamlining the admissions process for UMW accounting majors who meet qualifications. Paino received the [&hel[...]
