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Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: WOODFIN, JACK
Woodfin’s parents, John and Anne, started Woodfin Heating in 1977 to sell heating oil, growing it into one of the largest privately held HVAC-related businesses in Virginia. A Virginia Military Institute and University of Virginia Darden School of Business alum, Jack Woodfin began working with his parents in 1995 as a retail manager. He took […]
Transportation 2025: YOCHAI, NISSIM
Yochai was tapped as Zim American’s president in 2022. The U.S. company, a subsidiary of Israeli cargo shipping company Zim Integrated Shipping Services, moved to the Hampton Roads region in 2001. Last year, Zim American relocated and expanded its U.S. headquarters, moving from Norfolk to Virginia Beach. In 2011, Yochai joined Zim’s parent company, which has operations […]
Transportation 2025: WOODHOUR, WILLIAM
A University of Delaware alumnus, Woodhour has devoted 33 years to Maersk Line, rising to president and CEO in 2016. Headquartered in Virginia with offices in Norfolk and Dulles, Maersk is the U.S. arm of Danish shipping giant A.P. Møller-Mærsk and has the largest U.S. flag fleet in commercial service. Founded in 1983 to support the […]
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 2025: DESCH, MATTHEW J.
Desch joined Iridium as CEO in 2006, took the company public in 2009 and subsequently replaced its first-generation network with new satellites that are expected to last into the mid to late 2030s. Last year, after the global satellite communications company acquired Reston-based Satelles, Iridium unveiled the Iridium Satellite Time and Location service, which is […]
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 2025: FRENCH, CHRISTOPHER E.
In April 2024, Shentel completed its acquisition of Horizon Telcom, a commercial fiber provider, for $385 million. The combined company has approximately 15,400 fiber route miles across seven states. Shentel rebranded the Horizon commercial and residential fiber businesses to Glo Fiber. Shentel’s 2024 revenue increased 21.9%, to $328.1 million, mostly due to $47.7 million of […]
Transportation 2025: ANDERS, DEVON
Since Anders became president of InterChange in 2000, the logistics and industrial land development company’s portfolio has grown to nearly 2 million square feet and over 500 acres of prime industrial and commercial land. That includes more than a dozen warehouses in the Shenandoah Valley and a cold storage facility in Mount Crawford. The company’s […]
Transportation 2025: CLARKE, RANDY
Banas oversees the $3.9 billion Hampton Roads Bridge- Tunnel Expansion, the largest highway construction project in Virginia’s history and one of the largest infrastructure projects in the country. In May, the tunnel boring machine, nicknamed Mary, saw its mining operations pass the halfway point with nearly 60% of the more than 7,900-foot second tunnel excavated. […]
Transportation 2025: BRICH, STEPHEN
With about 30 years in transportation, Brich oversees VDOT’s more than 59,000 miles of road, 21,000 bridges and other structures, six tunnels and three ferry systems. Appointed in 2018, he manages more than 8,000 VDOT employees and an $8.9 billion annual budget for the nation’s third largest transportation agency. The most notable VDOT project underway […]
Transportation 2025: COLEMAN, MICHAEL
As head of CV International and subsidiary Capes Shipping Agencies, a family-owned global logistics and vessel agency service company, Coleman is responsible for the overall management, direction and growth of the company, which has 117 employees worldwide. Coleman worked his way up through CV International, which his father started in 1984, becoming president in 2006 […]
Transportation 2025: ESTES, WEBB
Estes follows in his great-grandfather’s footsteps leading Estes, North America’s largest privately owned freight carrier. In 2023, he was promoted to president and COO, succeeding his father, Rob Estes, who is now board chairman and CEO. The 94-year-old Estes Express has more than 24,000 employees. Its fiscal 2024 revenue totaled $5.8 billion. Estes has acquired […]
Transportation 2025: MILLER III, SHEPPARD ‘SHEP’
A former defense contracting executive and Norfolk native, Miller was appointed secretary by Gov. Glenn Youngkin in 2022. He is responsible for Virginia’s rail, roads, transit and ports. As chair of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, Miller has a great deal of say on the state’s transportation funding for major road expansion and improvement projects, as […]
Transportation 2025: LAHTI, REAR ADM. CARL A.
UPDATED SEPT. 12, 2025 In July 2024, Lahti succeeded Navy Rear Adm. Wesley McCall as commander of the Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, a group of 13 installations from Illinois to North Carolina, including Naval Station Norfolk. But in September 2025, after the Virginia 500 was published, Lahti retired after 36 years of duty and just a […]
