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Finance | Insurance 2023: MARY McDUFFIE
Aug 30, 2023

Finance | Insurance 2023: MARY McDUFFIE

This year marks the 90th birthday of Navy Federal, the world’s largest credit union. As a leader focused on helping others thrive, McDuffie sees this milestone as an occasion to celebrate the credit union’s dedication to its members, writing on LinkedIn, “I’m thankful every day to be part of an organization that puts its people […]

Law 2023: JOHN ‘JACK’ LAVOIE
Aug 30, 2023

Law 2023: JOHN ‘JACK’ LAVOIE

Lavoie began his career in real estate, locating sites and negotiating leases for clients across the mid-Atlantic region as a senior associate for global real estate advisory firm Staubach, now part of Jones Lang LaSalle. Lavoie now heads Cooley’s real estate practice group. His clients include landlords and tenants involved in major lease transactions, data […]

Real Estate 2023: DONALD E. STONE JR.
Aug 30, 2023

Real Estate 2023: DONALD E. STONE JR.

Stone, who has been Dewberry’s chief executive since 2010, oversees a $602.7 million engineering, architecture and construction firm with more than 60 offices nationwide. A 1980 civil engineering graduate of The Citadel, Stone was an Army second lieutenant, and after leaving the military in 1983, he joined the engineering firm O’Brien & Gere, serving in […]

Federal Contractors | Technology
Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JASON PROVIDAKES

With a doctorate from Cornell University and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Providakes is accustomed to addressing complex problems. A strong believer that “in times of uncertainty, there is opportunity,” the president and CEO of not-for-profit Mitre is at the forefront of some of today’s most pressing challenge[...]

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: REGGIE AGGARWAL
Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: REGGIE AGGARWAL

Cvent is a market-leading meeting, events and hospitality technology provider based in McLean. Originally trained as a lawyer, Cvent CEO Aggarwal received degrees from the University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University and Georgetown University Law Center. But he was seduced from the law by events management. After staging several hundred events as president of […]

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: D. JAMES BIDZOS
Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: D. JAMES BIDZOS

An early advocate of encryption in commercial software, Bidzos is an internet and cybersecurity pioneer. Verisign is the largest internet domain name registry and infrastructure provider. Any address with a .com or .net domain suffix is registered with Verisign. With 350 million registered addresses on its list and 3.5 million more registering in the first […]

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN WASSON
Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN WASSON

Wasson has spent his 36-year career at ICF International, where he has led the global consulting and technology services provider through a series of acquisitions and growth. The company has doubled in size every five years over the past two decades and in fiscal year 2022 reported $1.78 billion in revenue. Wasson joined ICF as […]

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: BRUCE L. CASWELL
Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: BRUCE L. CASWELL

With over 50,000 employees worldwide, Tysons-based Maximus has been supporting government services programs for more than 50 years and runs Medicare and Affordable Care Act customer help lines, as well as pandemic vaccinations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Caswell joined Maximus in 2004 and has been president since 2014, becoming CEO in […]

Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2023: DAVID BALDACCI
Aug 30, 2023

Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2023: DAVID BALDACCI

Bestselling crime and thriller novelist Baldacci, a lifelong Virginian, has made it a mission to give back to the institutions that shaped him. A Virginia Commonwealth University alumnus and former board of visitors member, Baldacci — with his wife, Michelle — established two scholarships at VCU. One supports students in political science (Baldacci’s major), and […]

Federal Contractors/Technology: LAURA K. IPSEN
Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: LAURA K. IPSEN

Ipsen was hired as higher education tech company Ellucian’s head in 2017, after 25 years in Silicon Valley, where she worked in executive positions for Oracle, Microsoft and Cisco Systems. She has also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Acer America and Hitachi Data Systems. A University of Virginia alumna, Ipsen moved back to the commonwealth when she […]

Finance | Insurance 2023: MARK A. FRANTZ
Aug 30, 2023

Finance | Insurance 2023: MARK A. FRANTZ

Blue Delta Capital Partners is an equity firm dedicated to supporting growth-stage companies providing technology solutions to the federal government. Since co-founding the firm in 2009, Frantz has guided it in creating three funds, including a $215 million investment fund launched in December 2021. The newest fund offers $10 million to $50 million to qualified […]

Federal Contractors/Technology: PHEBE NOVAKOVIC
Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: PHEBE N. NOVAKOVIC

Since 2013, Novakovic has led the world’s sixth largest aerospace and defense company, with 105,000 employees worldwide and revenue of $39.4 billion in fiscal 2022. Ranked No. 30 on Forbes’ 2022 World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list, she is a Smith College and University of Pennsylvania Wharton School graduate and is one of the highest […]

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