Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents in New Kent County, which treats patients who suffer from chronic illness, brain injury or neurological impairment, announced this week that Dr. Brett Sharp has been named as its medical director, which became effective April 20.
Sharp, who has 29 years of clinical experience, has been in private practice and medical director roles as a pediatrician and pediatric psychiatrist. In his new role, he will oversee medical care of all patients at the hospital. He is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry and also by the American Board of Pediatrics.
Sharp attended the University of Utah School of Medicine and did his postgraduate training at the University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals, practicing pediatrics, psychiatry and child psychiatry. He received his bachelor’s degree from Utah State University and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association.
Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents is a 110-bed hospital founded in 1983. It offers inpatient hospitalization and residential treatment.
Tysons-based software company MicroStrategy announced Wednesday that its chief financial officer, Lisa Mayr, has resigned after joining the company six months ago.
The company’s chief operating officer Phong Le, who has previously served as the CFO, will take over the role.
Mayr was hired as MicroStrategy’s CFO in October after serving as CFO at Washington, D.C.-based e-learning company EverFi Inc.
The announcement of Mayr’s resignation was made during MicroStrategy’s first quarter results call on Tuesday when the company also reported that its stock was down 3% in late day trading.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global emergency that’s fundamentally changed how our business is being done, at least in the near term,” Le said during the call.
“In March, we began to see some deal slippage as certain customers pulled back on investments given the high degree of uncertainty in the market as well as their need to focus on operational continuity for their employees and customers,” he added. “Overall, I’d characterize our Q1 performance as reasonable given the environment at the end of the quarter.”
More than 72,000 Virginians filed initial claims for unemployment last week, according to the Virginia Employment Commission, a decrease of about 10,000 jobless claims from the week prior.
“Though the 12.4% decline indicates that the volume of initial claims has retreated from its recent peak, it may not return to pre-pandemic levels for some time,” VEC Economist Timothy Aylor said in a statement.
And although the number of initial claims for unemployment decreased, the number of Virginians who have continued to file for unemployment insurance benefits reached 341,295 last week — more than 10% of private sector payroll employment in the commonwealth. People receiving unemployment benefits through the VEC must file unemployment claims each week in order to continue receiving benefits.
Source Virginia Economic Security Commission
Young workers and female workers continue to make up the majority of initial claimants, although the numbers of older workers, male workers and minority workers grew during the past week, according to the VEC.
More than 3.8 million people in the United States filed initial claims for unemployment last week, according to U.S. Department of Labor statistics, marking a total of 30.3 million Americans who have filed jobless claims during the last six weeks.
Last week’s U.S. claims were down by 603,000 from the week before, a sign that the flood of initial claims may be slowing.
The seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 12.4% for the week that ended April 18, a 1.5% increase from the previous week.
The states with the highest unemployment rates for the week that ended on April 11 were Michigan, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Rhode Island, Washington, Alaska, New York and West Virginia. States with the largest increases in initial claims for the week that ended on April 18 were Florida, Connecticut, West Virginia, Louisiana and Texas. The largest decreases happened in California, Michigan, Georgia and Washington.
The regions of the state that have been most impacted are Northern Virginia, Richmond and Hampton Roads.
Below are the top 10 localities, listed by number of continued unemployment claims, for the week ending April 25:
A majority of Central Virginia CEOs expect sales revenues to decline during the next six months but don’t expect to significantly reduce their workforces as a result of the economic crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a follow-up 2020 CEO Economic Outlook Survey released Wednesday by the University of Richmond‘s Robins School of Business and the Virginia Council of CEOs.
“These results confirm what I’ve been hearing from CEOs — that we may have hit bedrock, and many businesses can begin clawing their way out of this hole,” Scot McRoberts, executive director of VACEOs, said in a statement. “What is unclear is how long their businesses will be at the bottom, and how quickly they can climb out.”
More than 60% of CEOs responded that, compared with their expectations for their businesses at the end of March, business had been “about as expected.” More than 77% expect sales to be lower during the next six months. And more than one-third of respondents reported that they expect employment to decrease over the next six months.
The survey specifically asked questions related to COVID-19. Approximately 64% responded that they will continue to operate without significant layoffs, but 13% responded that significant layoffs are “probably” or “definitely” likely.
Another issue CEOs identified in the survey is skill gaps. While dealing with technology and a remote workforce, CEOs have identified creative sales and marketing as a gap.
“I wish we had a full-time marketing professional to help us communicate and pivot during this time,” one CEO responded in the survey.
CEOs were also asked what state and federal governments can do to help small businesses during the crisis, and more than half of the responses related to expanding or extending loan programs such as the Paycheck Protection Program.
The Robins School and VACEOs jointly conduct the survey on a quarterly basis, but this survey was conducted as a follow-up due to the fast-moving, recent economic crisis. Randy Raggio, associate dean at the Robins School, administers the survey and collects the responses each quarter.
“Although the outlook still is not good, this month produced the largest improvement in the index in the survey’s history,” Raggio said. “We intend to repeat the survey once a month until this crisis is over to track sentiment and to give Virginia CEOs a voice in the conversation.”
One hundred CEOs responded to the survey, which was administered from April 20 through April 23. CEOs in industries including construction, manufacturing, finance, insurance and retail responded.
Norfolk-based real estate company S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co. announced Wednesday that it has promoted Debbie Franco to regional vice president.
Franco was most recently the regional property manager at the firm, covering the Northern Virginia region. She started her career in real estate at the firm in 2002 as a leasing agent and earned her bachelor’s degree at Virginia Tech.
S.L. Nusbaum Realty was founded in 1906 and manages and leases more than 3 million square feet of commercial space, more than more than 200 apartment properties and more than 26,000 units.
McLean-based middle-market investment bank The McLean Group LLC announced Tuesday that Marc Gruzenski has been named as the head of its security practice.
Gruzenski was most recently the director of global security technology and director of information protection for The Walt Disney Co. He has also worked as the chief of intelligence and analysis and global asset protection for Accenture, and started his career as an officer in the U.S. Army and case officer in the Central Intelligence Agency. In his new role, he will focus on cybersecurity, physical security and security risk management at the bank. He has served on the Overseas Advisory Council, Defense Security Advisory Council, Security Industry Association and the Global Security Exchange.
The McLean Group was founded in 1997 and provides financial advice on mergers and acquisitions and business valuations.
Amazon.com Inc. announced Wednesday that it will donate $3.9 million to Richmond-based CodeVA through 2022 to support the Richmond-based nonprofit’s plan to offer computer science education and training to more than 700 “high-needs” schools in the commonwealth.
The first of three $1.3 million installments, which has already been donated, will allow CodeVA to create virtual computer science curriculum for more than 12,000 teachers and 500,000 Virginia students in the Eastern Shore, Southern and Southwest Virginia regions that historically have lacked access to advanced computer science training, which is needed to fill jobs like those Amazon plans to create in its forthcoming HQ2 campus in Arlington. The Amazon donation will double CodeVA’s annual operating budget.
“Today’s young people, especially our computer science students, are tomorrow’s scientists, engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs and job creators,” Rebecca Dovi, CodeVA founder and director of education, said in a statement. “Now more than ever, it’s imperative more students have computer science resources to solve some of the big, unprecedented challenges our world faces.”
CodeVA already developed virtual learning programs for both students and teachers in the wake of school closures statewide in March. Programming has included code-along events, AP computer science exam preparation sessions and computer science education resources. CodeVA was founded in 2014 by Dovi, a former Hanover County teacher and a member of Code.org’s Education Advisory Council, to expand access to computer science literacy in Virginia, and more than 2,000 K-12 teachers have been trained since then to teach computer programming to their students. The organization also hosts summer computer camps for children.
Virginia’s first lady, Pamela Northam, a former science teacher and chair of the Virginia STEM Education Commission, announced the donation during a virtual visit to CodeRVA Regional High School computer science students who are learning from home.
In February, Gov. Ralph Northam announced more than $1.3 million in state grants to support the implementation of Virginia’s Computer Science Standards of Learning.
“We have made great strides in recent years in igniting curiosity in STEM education and careers in an equitable way, and we won’t let this pandemic slow us down,” Pamela Northam said. “Amazon’s donation to CodeVA strengthens Virginia’s first-of-their-kind computer science standards and will help students develop these critical workforce skills while they learn from home and once they transition back to the classroom.”
The Virginia Trial Lawyers Association has confirmed Paul R. Hernandez, a partner at the Norfolk-based law firm Kalfus & Nachman PC, as its parliamentarian, a position on the association’s board of governors and its 2020-21 executive council.
A trial attorney and Virginia native who practices in personal injury, workers’ compensation and Social Security disability cases, Hernandez has worked at Kalfus & Nachman for more than 23 years. He attended Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
The VTLA was founded in 1959 with the goal to improve Virginia’s laws and justice system. It also exists to support Virginia lawyers through continued education. The organization has approximately 2,000 members and is governed by a board of governors of lawyers from across the commonwealth.
An industrial building in Richmond sold for $2.5 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced Monday.
Located at 2400 Maury St. in Richmond’s Manchester area, the 19,156-square-foot building sits on more than 9 acres of land. The building was previously leased to Esf Trailer Systems LLC, which sold cargo and flatbed vehicles.
Glen Allen-based commercial real estate company Commonwealth Commercial Partners LLC announced April 17 that Coral Gables, Florida-based construction services company MasTec North America Inc. is now leasing the building. Ben Bruni and Colton Konvicki from Commonwealth Commercial Partners represented the tenant.
Manchester OZ LLC purchased the building from 2400 Maury St. LLC as an investment. Isaac DeRegibus of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer handled the transaction on behalf of the buyer and seller.
Virginia Beach-based real estate company Rose & Womble Realty Co. and its property management arm, Rose & Womble Chandler Property Management announced Monday that it has hired Jennifer L. Mueller as its director of marketing.
Mueller was most recently the national account manager for Norfolk-based digital marketing company Trader Interactive. She was also previously the premium account director for Virginia Media, which is the sales and marketing division of several publications in Virginia including The Virginian-Pilot, Daily Press, The Virginia Gazette, The Coast and Style Weekly.
The Hampton Roads native will oversee marketing efforts for the real estate company founded in 1998. Rose and Womble has more than 600 licensed agents.
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