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Hospitality | Tourism 2025: KNIGHT, JUSTIN
As CEO of Apple Hospitality, a publicly traded real estate investment trust, Knight oversees more than 220 hotels, mainly Hilton and Marriott brands, across 37 states and Washington, D.C. He joined the company in 2000 and took over from his father, founder Glade Knight, in 2014. The elder Knight serves as the REIT’s executive chairman. […]
Health Care 2025: ROSNER, DR. MITCHELL
UPDATED SEPT. 12, 2025 A nephrologist who joined the University of Virginia’s medical school as a professor in 2005, Rosner was named CEO of the health system as well as executive vice president for health affairs for the University of Virginia on Sept. 12 after serving as the health system’s interim leader for seven months. […]
Hospitality | Tourism 2025: JAIN, AKHIL
Jain has run Landmark Hospitality Group for over a decade. With nearly 500 employees, the hospitality company manages, owns and develops hotels in North Carolina and Virginia under brands such as Marriott, Hyatt and Radisson. The company also expanded into housing in 2021, developing a 287-unit luxury apartment complex in Hampton. As part of the […]
Health Care 2025: LUNN, DR. WILLIAM
In 2023, Lunn was promoted to president of Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA’s Capital Division, which includes 19 hospitals across three states, including Virginia. In October 2024, LewisGale Hospital Montgomery in Christiansburg opened a $14 million, 10,000-square-foot freestanding emergency room. In December, the Reston Hospital Center opened an inpatient cancer care unit with eight rooms as[...]
Health Care 2025: NEWMAN, DR. CHRISTOPHER
Newman took over as president and CEO of the regional health system in March, after serving as its chief operating officer and chief medical officer since 2019. Mary Washington Healthcare began as an eight-room hospital in Fredericksburg in 1899 and now encompasses two hospitals, four emergency departments and more than 80 health care facilities. Before […]
Hospitality | Tourism 2025: HARDIE, MOLLY AND ROBERT
H7 Holdings is a private family investment company that owns and manages Keswick Hall and Golf Club in Albemarle County and the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Venture capital firm Level One Partners invests in the health care and life sciences sectors. The couple also runs the H7 Foundation, supporting educational and nonprofit endeavors, and […]
Health Care 2025: THOMAS, RONY
Under Thomas’ leadership since 2004, LifeNet Health has continued to grow since its 1982 founding as the Eastern Virginia Tissue Bank. Today, the nonprofit that provides organ, tissue and cell transplants has approximately 1,500 employees globally. In 2024, the organization worked with a record 299 people donating 857 organs for transplant, a 25% increase from […]
Health Care 2025: PULCZINSKI, DALE
Pulczinski is corporate vice president of Novo Nordisk’s manufacturing facility in Petersburg. The Danish pharmaceutical company bought the former AMPAC Fine Chemicals facility from Seoul-based manufacturing conglomerate SK Group at the end of 2024. The maker of Wegovy and Ozempic has more than 10,000 employees in the U.S. across 11 manufacturing, research and development and […]
Health Care 2025: CONNAUGHTON, SEAN T.
Since 2014, Connaughton has led this trade association that represents 26 health systems. The VHHA advocates for health care policies that support the sustainability of Virginia’s health care system, reduce health care costs and improve the health of Virginians. The organization also tracked COVID-related hospitalizations at the height of the pandemic. Previously a commissioned officer [&hel[...]
Health Care 2025: EDWARDS, DR. ERIC
Frustrated that the U.S. had so many medications on the Food and Drug Administration’s drug-shortage list, Edwards partnered in 2020 with Frank Gupton, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor, to launch Phlow, which develops and domestically manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and finished pharmaceutical products. That year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Serv[...]
