Out and About: February 2025 edition
1. and 2. President Donald Trump, right, and first lady Melania Trump watched fireworks at Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C. in Sterling on Jan. 18, ahead of the 60th Presidential Inauguration. (Photos by Matt Rourke/Associated Press and Alex Brandon/Associated Press) 3. L to R: Heng Yong and Chenxi Lu, attorneys at Williams Mullen; Tinh […]
Kuhn continues moving Loudoun projects forward
It hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for Chuck Kuhn lately as he tries to rezone land for flex industrial use in Leesburg and Purcellville. The CEO of JK Moving Services and JK Land Holdings, Kuhn is one of Northern Virginia’s most prominent data center developers and land conservationists, having purchased swathes of property in Loudoun […]
Digital divide
In a relatively short time, Josh Thomas has seen the Prince William County district he represents in the Virginia House of Delegates transform from farmland and residential neighborhoods to massive buildings filled with the digital infrastructure that stores, processes and distributes huge amounts of information across the global internet, from cloud computing for businesses to […]
DXC replaces CEO, Chair Mike Salvino
DXC Technology has replaced its chairman, president and CEO, Mike Salvino, with interim President and CEO Raul Fernandez, the Ashburn-based Fortune 500 IT company announced Wednesday. Salvino had served as president and CEO since 2019 and as chairman since 2022. He will transition from his role as chairman effective immediately, and remain in an advisory […]
Under new management
Washington Commanders fans did everything but sing “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead” during the team’s Sept. 10 season opening game. It felt like a new day as the NFL team came away with a win against the Arizona Cardinals. FedEx Field was sold out, and the stands were packed with local fans instead of supporters […]
Virginia’s back in game to score Commanders stadium
The $6.05 billion sale in July of the Washington Commanders by embattled former owner Dan Snyder did more than set a world record for the highest price paid for a professional sports team. The deal also reignited Virginia’s bid to persuade the Ashburn-based NFL team to move its stadium here. Lawmakers up for re-election in November […]
Data centers added $54.2B to Va. GDP over five years
The data center industry contributed $54.2 billion to Virginia’s gross domestic product from 2017 to 2021, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers study released Tuesday. That calculation includes indirect impacts from other businesses as part of the data center industry supply chain and induced impacts resulting from household spending of income earned from the industry or its […]
JK Moving hires talent development director
JK Moving Services has hired Carrie Haas as its director of talent development, the Sterling-based moving company announced Monday. Haas will lead training and talent development for JK Moving and its sister company, CapRelo, an employee relocation and assignment management firm. She will develop, coordinate and facilitate talent and leadership development initiatives and build competency [&hellip[...]
Transportation 2023: WILLIAM E. ‘BILL’ WOODHOUR
Woodhour has spent 32 years with Maersk Line, starting in sales and marketing, working his way up to president and CEO in 2016. Maersk Line is the Virginia-based U.S. arm of Danish shipping giant A.P. Møller-Mærsk, founded in 1983 to support the Navy. With offices in Norfolk and Dulles, it specializes in providing transportation, ship […]
Transportation 2023: CHARLES ‘CHUCK’ KUHN
Kuhn was just a teenager when he started JK Moving, which has grown into North America’s largest independently owned and operated moving company. Employing more than 1,000 workers, it was ranked best moving company for 2023 by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to his business successes, Kuhn is also known for his land […]
Economic Development 2023: BUDDY RIZER
Head of Loudoun’s economic development since 2007, Rizer is best-known for helping build the county’s Ashburn area into the data center capital of the world. More than 70% of the world’s internet traffic comes through Data Center Alley in Ashburn, with data centers projected to pay $570 million in county taxes just in 2024. But […]
Finance | Insurance 2023: SHANE McLAUGHLIN
McLaughlin has been at Wells Fargo for more than 12 years, including six as the bank’s region bank president for Northern Virginia. A Virginia Tech graduate, McLaughlin joined Wachovia as a licensed financial specialist in 2004 and became a Wells Fargo employee when that bank acquired Wachovia in 2008. In 2011, McLaughlin was given leadership […]