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Retired Newport News Shipbuilding prez joins Armada Hoffler board
Virginia Beach-based real estate investment trust Armada Hoffler announced Monday that it has appointed former Newport News Shipbuilding President Jennifer Boykin to the company’s board of directors. “We are excited to welcome Mrs. Boykin to our board of directors,” Armada Hoffler President and CEO Shawn Tibbetts said in a statement. “Her extensive leadership experience and […]
U.Va. president, board members stand up for UVA Health execs
The University of Virginia’s president and two UVA Health board members defended UVA Health CEO Dr. Craig Kent and U.Va. School of Medicine Dean Dr. Melina R. Kibbe on Monday, after 128 UVA Physicians Group-employed faculty signed a letter demanding their immediate removal late last week. The letter, which expresses “no confidence” in Kent and […]
Top Five August 2024
The five most popular daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from June 12 to July 12 included news of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s appointees now holding a majority on the governing boards of Virginia’s state colleges and universities. 1 | Youngkin peppers university boards with GOP power players New members included some conservative movers […]
Youngkin peppers university boards with GOP power players
With Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s appointees slated to hold majorities on the state’s university boards beginning July 1, the governor announced dozens of last-minute university board appointments Friday afternoon, shortly before the members’ four-year terms take effect Monday. Although many of the new appointees are the usual mix of Virginia business leaders and former state legislato[...]
Grounds for dissent?
On April 30, the night police raided Columbia University’s campus, arresting more than 100 protesters and keeping about 50 students and faculty members cooped up for several hours in Pulitzer Hall, where the annual journalism prizes are announced, it was pretty quiet at the University of Virginia. According to a Cavalier Daily student reporter’s tweets […]
Boeing CEO Calhoun to step down by year-end
Amid ongoing bad press over production problems and fallout from a high-profile January incident in which a 4-foot wall panel blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet cabin in mid-air, Boeing announced Monday that its president and CEO, Dave Calhoun, would step down from his position leading the embattled Arlington County-based Fortune 500 […]
Hampton Roads Exec Roundtable adds four board members
The newly formed Hampton Roads Executive Roundtable elected four new board members at its January meeting, the organization announced Monday. William “Bill” Murray, senior vice president of corporate affairs and communication for Richmond-based Dominion Energy; Towuanna Porter Brannon, president of Virginia Peninsula Community College; Matthew Swartz, executive director and chief of st[...]
Bon Secours VP named American Diabetes Association board chair
Rhodes B. Ritenour, Bon Secours’ Richmond market vice president for external and regulatory affairs, is the 2024 board chair of the American Diabetes Association, the Arlington County-based nonprofit announced Thursday. A former deputy state attorney general, Ritenour has lived with type 1 diabetes since age 5 and served as chairman of the association’s board in […]
Northrop Grumman CEO to chair Greater Washington Partnership
Northrop Grumman chair, CEO and president Kathy Warden is adding a new title to her résumé. On Jan. 1, 2024, Warden will officially take over as chair of the Greater Washington Partnership. She will be the first woman, first nonfounder and first CEO of a global company to lead the board for the partnership, a […]
Building equity
When BB&T recruited Thomas Ransom, a Black economics student at Hampden-Sydney College, to join its management development program in the late 1990s, he quickly had to pick up the world of banking and its culture. The Urbanna native says he’d never met a banker before starting at BB&T and certainly didn’t know what moves to […]
NoVa chamber inducts Deb Gandy as next chair
Deborah G. “Deb” Gandy, senior managing director at Chevy Chase Trust Investment Advisors, was inducted as 2023-2024 chair of the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. Gandy, the first Black woman to chair the chamber, previously served as the chamber’s 2022-2023 vice chair and succeeds Matt McQueen, Peraton Inc.’s chief communications and engagement officer, […]
Layne, Perry named to TowneBank corporate board
Suffolk-based TowneBank has named Aubrey L. Layne Jr., executive vice president of governance and external affairs for Sentara Healthcare, and Suburban Capital founder and CEO Christopher Perry to its corporate board of directors, the bank announced Tuesday. Layne, who chairs the Virginia Port Authority’s board of commissioners and formerly served as state secretary of finance […]
