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Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN HELLER
When Heller was named CEO of federal contractor Amentum in March 2022, he had just spent seven years directing growth strategy for Falls Church-based PAE, taking it from a $1.6 billion company to one valued at $2.76 billion. Amentum purchased PAE for $1.9 billion in cash in 2022 and moved its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland, […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: DOUG WAGONER
LMI has been busy making deals since Wagoner joined the government defense and consulting firm in 2020. It expanded its presence in the fast-growing space defense industry with the 2022 purchase of Colorado Springs, Colorado-based Synaptech and got a foothold in the public health sector with the 2021 acquisition of Suntiva. In March, LMI announced […]
Health Care 2023: MICHAEL J. FRIEDLANDER
Friedlander is among the top leaders in Virginia focused on growing the biomedical research industry. Since he founded the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion a decade ago, the institute has doubled its lab facilities in Roanoke and expanded to new laboratories on the Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus in Washington, D.C. […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: STEPHEN TRUNDLE
Trundle has led Tysons-based home security tech company Alarm.com since May 2003. He was chief technology officer at MicroStrategy when Alarm.com was founded in 2000. MicroStrategy sold the spinoff security business to a group of investors in 2009, and Alarm.com went public in 2015. Alarm.com has since been expanding rapidly as the market for connected […]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: WATT R. FOSTER JR.
In 1989, Watt Foster Jr. bought Foster Fuels from his father, the late Watt R. “Bobby” Foster Sr. The younger Foster marks the third generation to run the family business, which was founded in 1921. In June, Foster was named one of 11 winners of Ernst & Young’s 2023 Entrepreneur of the Year Mid-Atlantic Award. […]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: VINCE SHEEHY IV
Sheehy carries on his father’s legacy as an auto dealer, manning the second largest dealership group in Virginia and No. 31 in the nation. His father, Vincent Sheehy III, founded Sheehy Ford in Maryland in 1965 as a suburban business near the newly built Capital Beltway. After graduating from Dickinson College, receiving an MBA from […]
Government | Politics 2023: BARRY KNIGHT
As one of the state’s budget leaders, Knight has been caught up in an election-year tug-of-war that, as of August, prevented an amended 2022-24 budget, despite a $5.1 billion state revenue surplus. Knight is a Virginia Beach Republican who chairs the House of Delegates’ powerful Appropriations Committee, which is charged with finalizing the state’s budget […]
Health Care 2023: DR. MICHAEL J. DACEY
In January, Dacey, Riverside’s president, also became the health system’s CEO, succeeding Bill Downey, who transitioned to executive vice chairman and is remaining in an advisory role until his 2024 retirement. Dacey has also served as chief operating officer at Riverside, which has 9,000 employees and operates seven hospitals in Newport News, Williamsburg, Hampton, Yorktown, […[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: BRIAN KENNER
When Amazon.com was scouting for potential locations for its East Coast HQ2 headquarters years ago, Kenner was Washington, D.C.’s deputy mayor for planning and economic development, a position in which he worked hard to lure the e-tailer to the district, although ultimately Amazon picked nearby Arlington County. Now, Kenner works for the Fortune 500 goliath […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: KATHY WARDEN
Warden was named CEO of the world’s third largest aerospace and defense company in 2019 after serving as its president and chief operating officer. Ranked No. 38 on Forbes’ 2022 World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list, she previously worked for General Dynamics and Veridian before joining Northrop Grumman in 2008. Ranked No. 113 on the […]
Media 2023: KELLY TILL
In 2022, Till became the first woman to lead the Richmond Times-Dispatch in its 172-year history, after leading Southeastern U.S. regional advertising sales for parent company Lee Enterprises, a position she also holds. Before joining Lee, Till was an ad executive for The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press. An alumna of Old Dominion University, she serves […]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2023: TONY BENNETT
The No. 4-seeded Cavaliers suffered a painful loss to No.13-seed Furman University in the first round of this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament, but Bennett — who this season became the winningest coach in the team’s history — took the setback in stride, celebrating the Cavaliers’ 25th appearance at the Big Dance and 11th ACC […]
