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Person of the Year

Mar 18, 2024

Cavallo announces retirement

MullenLowe Global CEO Kristen Cavallo, formerly also CEO of Richmond-based marketing and advertising firm The Martin Agency, is retiring from her role to pursue political and social activism, MullenLowe and Martin parent Interpublic Group of Cos. (IPG) announced Monday. Cavallo became CEO of MullenLowe Global in November 2022 and continued to lead Martin until January, […]

Martin Agency CEO Kristen Cavallo was also named CEO for MullenLowe Global in November 2022. Based in Richmond, the international advertising and marketing chief executive oversees nearly 5,000 employees across 20 offices in 13 countries. Photo courtesy The Martin Agency.
Nov 29, 2023

2023 Virginia Business Person of the Year: Kristen Cavallo

In 2017, Kristen Cavallo and her son, Matt, then a student on spring break from James Madison University, set out to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with a seven-day window to summit. Statistics from Kilimanjaro National Park, last updated in the 2000s, show a correlation between a route’s duration and success rate: Climbers on seven-day routes have […]

Nov 29, 2022

2022 Virginia Business Person of the Year: Jim McGlothlin

Jim McGlothlin had never really thought much about paintings. He was more of a music guy, a fan of Elvis, whom he saw in concert six months before the King’s 1977 death. But the art of the deal — in this case, winning a valuable artwork at an auction — was a familiar feeling.  “That’s […]

Gold Key | PHR CEO Bruce Thompson has begun construction on the final phase of his $435 million Cavalier Resort, a 21-acre collection of hotels, restaurants and housing on Virginia Beach’s Oceanfront. Photo by James Lee
Nov 29, 2021

2021 Virginia Business Person of the Year: Bruce Thompson

Standing on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the Cavalier Hotel is a callback to a time when Virginia Beach was a sleepy little resort town inside Princess Anne County. Opened in 1927 as the largest brick building in the state, the Cavalier was a product of the Jazz Age. Over the years, the Y-shaped […]

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