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Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: MIKE CORKERY
Corkery joined Deltek as its chief financial officer in January 2010 and was appointed president and CEO in November 2012. The company delivers enterprise software, information solutions and consulting services to project-based businesses. Since Corkery took the helm, Deltek has doubled in size; it now has about 30,000 customers across 80 countries. It also has […]
Professional Services 2023: MICHAEL DONOHUE
Donohue assumed a leadership role at ADP’s Norfolk location in January 2021 after having served as director of procurement and global sourcing from 2016 to 2020. One of Norfolk’s largest private sector employers, with a regional customer service center established there in 2016, ADP offers payroll, human resources and benefits services to more than 1 […]
Hospitality | Tourism 2023: NEEL DESAI
Desai joined LTD Hospitality Group in 1998 as the second generation of the family-owned hotel development and management company co-founded by Desai’s father in 1983. Perhaps entrepreneurism is in his DNA because Desai and longtime friend Bijal Patel founded S2K Hospitality in 2021 to manage and develop fast-casual restaurants. In May, the partners opened a […]
Professional Services 2023: WILLIAM ‘DANNY’ ROBINSON
The Martin Agency’s chief creative officer since 2020, Robinson oversees ad campaigns for big-name clients like Geico, UPS and Old Navy and was named Ad Age’s 2022 Chief Creative Officer of the Year. It’s no coincidence that during his tenure, Adweek named Martin its Agency of the Year for three consecutive years, from 2020 to […]
Education 2023: LT. GEN. DARRELL K. WILLIAMS (U.S. ARMY, RET.)
When Williams was a freshman at Hampton University in 1979, the school’s president was William R. Harvey — who retired last year after 44 years leading the private historically Black university. That’s a tough act to follow, but Williams, who became HU’s 13th president in July 2022, has an impressive résumé of his own. A […]
Real Estate 2023: ROBERT J. ‘BOB’ CLARK
Clark joined Baskervill, one of the state’s most prominent design firms, more than 25 years ago and was named president in 2004. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute who has an MBA from William & Mary, Clark started his career as a mechanical engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding and served as an Air Force officer […]
Real Estate 2023: ROBERT M. ‘BOB’ KING
King was named chairman of the commercial real estate company’s board in May after his adoptive father, Harvey L. Lindsay Jr., died on April 19 at age 93. Lindsay adopted King and his brother, Billy, after he married their mother, Frances. Their father, naval pilot Robert M. King Jr., died in a training flight accident […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: WILLIAM H. ‘BILL’ DEAN
Founded by Dean’s grandfather in 1949 as an electrical construction company, M.C. Dean was still a relatively small business, with just 150 employees, when Dean became CEO in 1997. Today, M.C. Dean has more than 5,200 employees worldwide, including 2,000 in Virginia, and the privately owned design-build systems integration company reportedly earned $1.3 billion in […]
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 […]
Real Estate 2023: DAN NOVACK
Novack was named president of the Dallas-based contracting and construction management company’s mid-Atlantic operation in January, but his career with Balfour started more than two decades ago. As mid-Atlantic president, he provides strategic oversight for Balfour Beatty’s construction projects in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, and works with teams to sustain m[...]
Professional Services 2023: KEVIN VIROSTEK
Virostek works with some of the fastest growing companies in the Washington, D.C., area, leading 3,500 professionals at Big Four accounting and professional services firm Ernst & Young across assurance, tax consulting and transaction practices. With 2022 global revenue of $45.4 billion and about 365,000 employees worldwide, EY provides a host of assurance, tax advisory, […]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2023: ROMAINE SEGUIN
Seguin’s global supply chain and logistics expertise as former president of UPS Global Freight Forwarding has served her well as CEO of Good360, a nonprofit that gathers essential goods and distributes them to nonprofits. The organization, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, distributed more than $2.5 billion in essential items in 2022. In her […]
