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Banking | Finance 2025: CAUDRON, TRISTAN
Caudron leads RiverFront Wealth Advisors, formerly Caudron Megary Blackburn Wealth Management Group. RiverFront is a member of the Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network. Caudron co-founded CMB in 1995. A certified financial planner, Caudron is also an accredited asset management specialist and a chartered retirement planning counselor. He was among the professionals named on Barron’s 2025 [[...]
Transportation 2025: BENNETT, P. DALE
Bennett adopted the love of trucking from his late father, a professional truck driver, and has advocated for the trucking industry for more than 40 years. The nation’s trucking industry has been hit hard in recent years by driver shortages, supply chain woes and high diesel prices. At the federal level last year, the VTA […]
Transportation 2025: CRUTCHFIELD, RANDALL
Crutchfield has been chairman and CEO of Colonna’s Shipyard — one of the nation’s largest private shipyards — since January 2024, succeeding Tom Godfrey, who retired at the end of 2023 after leading the company for decades. Founded in 1875 and headquartered in Norfolk, Colonna’s provides ship repair, marine and industrial machining, and steel fabrication. […]
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 […]
