Pittsburgh-based engineering consulting firm Michael Baker International announced Tuesday that Paul Baginski has been named as office executive for its Richmond location.
Baginski was most recently CEO and chief marketing officer for engineering and tech company PAB Consulting Inc. In his new role, he will oversee federal, state and municipal clients in the Central Virginia region.
He has also previously served as chief operating officer for Professional Environmental Engineers Inc. and served in leadership positions with government contractor Leidos Inc. and AMEC (now Wood Group).
Baginski earned his bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder and his bachelor of arts degree in environmental studies from Rollins College. He is a member of the Society of American Military Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Michael Baker employs more than 3,000 people across its nearly 100 locations. The company provides engineering and consulting services including design, planning, architecture, environmental construction and program management to government and commercial clients.
Marge Connelly will chair the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday. SCHEV is the state’s coordinating agency for higher education.
Connelly was appointed to the council in 2014 and reappointed in 2018. She currently serves on the board of directors at Norfolk-based PRA Group Inc. She was integral in the 1994 foundation of Capital One Financial Services, where she served as executive vice president of operations for 12 years. From 2012 to 2013, she served as interim president at Longwood University, where she had been rector for eight years.
Northam also reappointed Thaddeus B. Hollomon, Tom Slater and Ken Ampy to the board. Alexandra Arriaga is the only newly appointed member of the board, replacing William Murray.
Arriaga is a founder and partner at Arlington-based management consulting firm Strategy for Humanity LLC, which is a woman-, minority- and person with disabilities-owned company. She has also served in leadership positions with the White House, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Congress and nonprofit organizations.
“Alexandra is a terrific addition to the council,” Connelly said in a statement. “With vast government and education experience, she will add tremendous value to our efforts to improve Virginia’s system of higher education.”
Officers for the year starting July 1 and ending June 30, 2021, include:
Chair, Marge Connelly
Vice Chair, Thomas G. Slater Jr., an attorney who serves as chair emeritus for litigation, labor and competition practices at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. He was appointed in 2016.
Secretary, Katharine Webb, senior vice president of the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association. She was appointed in 2015.
Chair of Academic Affairs Committee, Ken Ampy, CEO of Richmond-based tech consulting and staffing firm Astyra Corp. He was appointed in 2016.
Chair of Resources & Planning Committee, Victoria Harker, executive vice president and chief financial officer for Tegna Inc. She was appointed in 2017.
Primary care practices were not prepared for the pandemic and must reinvent the ways in which they do business, according to a paper authored by several Virginia doctors published Monday in the Annals of Family Medicine.
Dr. Alex Krist, a Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, and his co-authors say that primary care practices play a critical role in keeping patients out of the hospital. (It’s been feared and predicted that hospitals would exceed capacity with an influx of COVID-19 patients.)
“The pandemic was a crisis for primary care,” Krist said in a statement. “Physicians needed to redesign their practices overnight.”
But primary care doctors have not had adequate COVID-19 testing supplies, personal protective equipment and finances to continue operating, the paper noted. Due to financial constraints, many primary care practices closed and/or furloughed staff during the pandemic. “Seventy-five percent of Americans have primary care physicians, and 54% of all doctors’ visits are made to primary care physicians,” Krist said. “If you shut your doors, patients are abandoned. They go to overwhelmed emergency rooms, or they avoid the health care system and get sick.”
The paper also addresses safety concerns such as having patients in shared waiting rooms, and that there’s not a “road map for how primary care should respond to a pandemic,” Krist said. The co-authors of “Redesigning Primary Care to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Midst of the Pandemic,” however, make several recommendations for primary care physicians at each stage of the outbreak.
The other co-authors of the paper are Dr. Jennifer E. DeVoe of Oregon Health & Science University; Dr. Anthony Cheng of Oregon Health & Science University; Dr. Thomas Ehrlich of Fairfax Family Practice; and Dr. Samuel Jones of Inova Health System. Jones and Ehrlich are also faculty at VCU‘s Fairfax Medicine Residency program, which trains primary care physicians.
Recommendations for primary care physicians include:
Early, widespread testing in primary care setting
Virtual-first approach to triaging patient care to determine who needs to be seen in person
Providing “home hospital care” through home virtual monitoring and home visits if patients are reluctant to visit the hospital, or the hospital is at capacity
Transitioning to rehabilitation and support for patients who overcome COVID-19 at primary care facilities
“VCU Health is committed to expanding access to primary care and family medicine programs in a way that integrates with and complements its range of services,” Dr. Peter Buckley, interim CEO of VCU Health System and interim senior vice president of VCU Health Sciences, said in a statement. “This paper is a great start to an important conversation about the role primary care can play in a pandemic.”
Fairfax-based engineering consulting firm Dewberry announced Tuesday that Robert Victor will lead its mid-Atlantic business as an operating unit manager.
Victor was most recently the transportation group lead with design company HDR, where he oversaw Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Virginia business. In his new role, he will oversee more than 350 employees across 11 offices.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Michigan and his master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois.
Victor also serves on the transportation and land-use committee for the Greater Washington Board of Trade, where he also is a member of the mobility and logistics solutions group. At the American Council of Engineering Companies/Metro Washington (ACEC/MW) he is a member of the transportation committee. He also is a former society board member and fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He volunteers his time with the Women in Transportation Seminar, and is an advisory committee member of the American Society of Highway Engineers.
Founded in 1956, Dewberry offers engineering, geospatial, survey, mapping, environmental and construction services to government and commercial clients. The company employs a total of 2,000 people across more than 50 locations. Last year, it reported $470.8 million in revenue.
Winchester-based cabinetry manufacturer American Woodmark Corp. announced Tuesday a leadership overhaul following an internal investigation of R. Perry Campbell, senior vice president of sales and commercial operations, which found he had violated company policy and values.
President and CEO S. Cary Dunston has retired and resigned from the board and M. Scott Culbreth, senior vice president and chief financial officer, was promoted to replace Dunston.
“Campbell … violated the company’s policies and values [and] has been separated from his position,” the company statement reads. “His separation was not related to American Woodmark’s operational or financial performance.”
The company did not provide further details of the policies and values that Campbell violated or if Dunston’s retirement and resignation were connected. The company spokesperson declined to provide further comment.
“I have been privileged to be a part of the American Woodmark family for 14 years, the last five as CEO, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life,” Dunston said in a statement. “I’m incredibly proud of our accomplishments, but recent developments in both my personal and professional life have prompted me to think about the future [and] about the next generation of leadership to take the helm of this amazing company.”
Culbreth has been with the company since 2014, and had previously served as CFO for Piedmont Hardware Brands. He has also worked with Shell Oil Co., Robert Bosh Corp. and Newell Brands. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from Virginia Tech and his master’s degree in business administration from Washington University in St. Louis.
“I am both honored and humbled by the confidence of the board to choose me as the next leader of American Woodmark,” Culbreth said in a statement. “Our company has a strong corporate culture and talented and dedicated employees. We will continue to execute the strategy that the board, Cary and the leadership team developed, which I believe will drive continued growth and opportunity for the company.”
Paul Joachimczyk, vice president of financial planning and analysis, replaces Culbreth as vice president and CFO. Vance W. Tang, former lead independent director, has been elected as a non-executive chairman of the board of directors.
Founded in 1980 and publicly traded on the Nasdaq, American Woodmark operates 18 manufacturing facilities in the United States and Mexico, employing more than 10,000 people across its 15 brands. The company reported more than $1.65 billion in sales last year.
Martinsville-based manufacturing business consulting firm Genedge announced Tuesday that Anthony “Tony” Cerilli has been promoted to vice president of operations.
In his new role at the company’s Newport News office, he will be responsible for customer fulfillment. He will also oversee all client engagement between staff and third-party providers. Cerilli was most recently Genedge’s director of national programs, overseeing programs that help manufacturers in medical device supply chains.
Founded in 1992, Genedge offers consulting services to more than 200 Virginia management and logistics companies.
“It is an exciting time for the country and the commonwealth with regards to manufacturing — there is finally the realization that critical manufacturing needs to occur domestically,” Cerilli said in a statement. “I look forward to continuing to help manufacturers in Virginia to innovate, compete and grow, keeping and bringing critical manufacturing jobs here in Virginia.”
Before his time with Genedge, Cerilli was a regulator manufacturing engineer with manufacturing company Continental AG. He earned his bachelor’s degree in atmospheric science from the University at Albany, State University of New York, and is a master’s candidate for business administration at the William & Mary Mason School of Business.
Virginia Commonwealth University announced Monday that Carmenita D. Higginbotham will become dean of the School of Arts, starting Sept. 15. Nancy Scott, who served as interim dean , will remain until Higginbotham arrives.
Higginbotham currently serves as chair of the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia. At U.Va., she has also served as an assistant and associate professor in the McIntire Department of Art. She joined the faculty in 2005 with U.Va.’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
Considered one of the country’s leading Disney experts, she has been a scholar and consultant for documentaries, including the 2015 “American Experience” documentary about Walt Disney and CNN’s “The Movies” last year. She authored “The Urban Scene: Race, Reginald Marsh, and American Art,” which addresses ways race is addressed in American art.
She recently was quoted in The Washington Post, discussing The Walt Disney Co.’s choice to develop content with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose kneeling during the National Anthem sparked protests and civil rights activism.
“What Disney has to do is figure out how to make itself matter, how to get in front of audiences in very different ways than it has in the past,” she told the Post. “Because the previous rules — of gathering a lot of people in one place, of just riding safely down the middle of American society — won’t apply for the next 12 months. And maybe a lot longer.”
“Dr. Higginbotham is the right leader at the right time as we navigate this pivotal point in VCU‘s history,” Gail Hackett, VCU provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, said in a statement.
Higginbotham is also a peer referee for The Art Bulletin, Art Journal and the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and has worked with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the College Art Association and digital journal The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-45.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in English and art history from the University of Minnesota, her master’s degree in art history from the University of Massachusetts and her doctorate in history of art from the University of Michigan.
Virginia will dedicate $34 million to electrify state government vehicle fleets and to replace all-diesel cargo handling equipment at the Port of Virginia with zero-emission all-electric equipment, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday.
“As we continue to fight this global pandemic, we are reminded daily that we must prioritize public health in every way possible,” Northam said in a statement. “Together, these projects show how we can make critical investments in the health and well-being of all Virginians while advancing our commitment to a clean energy future.”
The state will use $14 million to replace all-diesel cargo handling equipment at the Port with zero-emission all-electric equipment, and $20 million will be directed to the Clean Air Communities Program, which will electrify government transportation fleets.
The port project includes the deployment of two all-electric ship-to-shore cranes at Norfolk International Terminals. Part of the funding will also be used toward all-electric yard tractors and charging infrastructure at the Richmond Marine Terminal. The Port currently operates more than 160 diesel yard tractors.
“We are pleased to be part of the next steps in building Virginia’s clean energy economy,” John F. Reinhart, CEO and executive director of Virginia Port Authority, said in a statement. “These investments will help the Port of Virginia continue our efforts to reduce emissions, be good stewards of the environment, and provide world-class service to our customers.”
Nearly two-thirds of cargo at the Port is transported on trucks, and nearby communities are disproportionately impacted by diesel pollution, according to Northam’s statement. It’s expected that the Port project will eliminate more than 3,000 tons of diesel pollution, more than 71,000 tons of greenhouse gases and the use of more than 6 million gallons of diesel fuel.
The remaining $20 million will be dedicated to public electrification projects. The state will open an application process for which all state and local government entities are eligible, but priority will be given to projects located in low-income communities, communities of color and communities listed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2020 Diesel Emissions Reduction Act Priority List.
Funding comes from settlement payments from the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust, from which the state has received funding from in the past. Volkswagen, which has its North American headquarters in Herndon, agreed in 2016 to a $14.7 billion settlement over claims that the automaker had installed software in diesel engine vehicles to disable emission controls. Claimants say this ultimately reflected inaccurate fuel mileage, driving performance and released thousands of tons of nitrogen oxides.
Of the settlement money, $10 billion was used to buy back consumer vehicles, and the remaining funding was split among U.S. states and was also used toward a media campaign aimed at increasing public awareness about zero-emission vehicles.
“These are exactly the kind of transformational, innovative investments that we hoped the commonwealth could make with the funds we secured from our enforcement action against VW,” Attorney General Mark Herring, who helped lead the multistate Volkswagen investigation, said in a statement. “These projects at the Port of Virginia will further cement its position as the premier facility on the East Coast, and the transformation of government fleets will set an example for both the public and private sectors as we seek to reduce emissions in the transportation sector.”
This is Virginia’s fourth funding allocation from the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust. The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) distributes Virginia’s share of the settlement.
“The projects funded through this settlement will showcase effective partnerships and innovative ideas,” DEQ Director David Paylor said in a statement. “We want to enable communities, particularly underserved communities, to implement projects that best respond to their needs.”
After nearly 88 years, the Ashburn-based Washington Redskins announced Monday morning that it will retire the Redskins name and logo after weeks of discussion over what many see as a discriminatory and derogatory name against Native Americans.
A new team name has not been announced.
Monday’s announcement comes after a July 3 statement saying it would undergo a “thorough review” of the team name, “in light of recent events around [the] country.”
“Dan Snyder and Coach Rivera are working closely to develop a new name and design approach that will enhance the standing of our proud, tradition rich franchise and inspire our sponsors, fans and community for the next 100 years,” according to the statement released Monday morning.
Snyder purchased the National Football League franchise team in 1999, and told USA Today in 2013 that the team name would never change.
“We will never change the name of the team,” Snyder told USA Today in 2013. “As a lifelong Redskins fan, and I think that the Redskins fans understand the great tradition and what it’s all about and what it means. … We’ll never change the name. It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.”
The name change comes amid pressure on sports teams, franchises and brands to reevaluate names that could be seen as derogatory or discriminatory based on race. The Washington Redskins have held the name since 1933, and for approximately 30 years its fight song, “Hail to the Redskins,” included derogatory language against Native Americans, such as “scalping.”
On July 2, the team’s stadium sponsor, FedEx, sent a private letter to the football franchise stating that FedEx would remove its signage from the stadium after its 2020 season unless the team changed its name, The Washington Post first reported. The shipping giant signed a $205 million deal for stadium naming rights in 1999 and it isn’t set to expire until 2025.
“We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name,” Memphis-based Fedex later said in a released statement.
The National Football League franchise was first named the Boston Braves, but the team name was changed when the team moved. A baseball team in the area already played under the name the Braves. The team has been located in the Washington, D.C. area since 1937, and were Super Bowl champions in 1983, 1988 and 1992.
Since the inception of the Redskins name, Native Americans and other advocacy groups have advocated for a name change, citing that “redskin” is a derogatory term to refer to native groups. George Preston Marshall, the founder and original owner of the Redskins, was in the early 1960s, forced to racially integrate his franchise — making him one of the last NFL franchise owners to do so.
A statue of Marshall stood at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium (RFK Stadium) until June 19, when it was taken down amid the removal of statues of Confederate and segregationist figures across the United States.
“This symbol of a person who didn’t believe all men and women were created equal and who actually worked against integration is counter to all that we as people, a city and nation represent,” Max Brown, the chairman of the Events DC board of directors, said in a statement. “We believe that injustice and inequality of all forms is reprehensible and we are firmly committed to confronting unequal treatment and working together toward healing our city and country.”
The Washington Redskins in 2019 had the seventh-highest NFL team valuation at $3.4 billion, according to Forbes.
Martinsville-based ValleyStar Credit Union announced Friday it has promoted Lisa M. Lambrecht to executive vice president. She was previously the chief financial officer at the credit union.
In her new role, she will report to the president and CEO, and oversee the CFO, chief operating officer, chief marketing officer, the risk management department and the human resources and training department. Before joining ValleyStar in 2019, Lambrecht was the president and CEO of Entrust Financial Credit Union, which merged with ValleyStar last July.
Lambrecht earned her bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University and her master’s degree in business administration from the Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University.
Wm. Andrew Reynolds. Photo courtesy ValleyStar Credit Union
ValleyStar also promoted Wm. Andrew Reynolds to CFO and senior vice president.
Reynolds has been with ValleyStar for 18 years practicing financial accounting and data analytics, which he will oversee in his new role. Before his time with ValleyStar, he was the controller of West Point-based Baylands Family Credit Union.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance and a master’s degree in business administration from Virginia Tech. Reynolds also serves as the legislative event coordinator for the Southwest region of the Virginia Credit Union League.
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