byline: Virginia Business

Davis stepped into the role of senior vice president and regional manager of Nexstar Media Group’s broadcasting division at the start of 2017, bringing more than two decades of experience with him. He oversees Nexstar stations in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Previously, he served as president and general manager of WAVY and WVBT in Norfolk for a dozen years. Before, he was station manager of WVBT FOX43 for five years, following a five-year stint as local sales manager for WAVY. Davis’ first broadcasting job in the region was at WVEC-TV.

His television career began in post-production at National Video Center in New York. A graduate of Duke University, he is past president and longtime member of the Virginia Association of Broadcasters. A New Jersey native, he and his family reside in Hampton Roads.

Nexstar owns, operates, programs or provides sales and other services to more than 200 broadcast stations, and their signals reach 117 markets, more than 68% of all U.S. television households. Nexstar’s portfolio includes all primary major network affiliates, including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The CW.

Good360 is creating the largest shared warehouse network in the disaster-recovery space so that it can better position supplies before disasters strike. Prepositioning materials and products in strategic locations allows the organization to quickly deploy aid when needed. Good360 has partnered with other nonprofits and corporations to share space around the country.

Seguin joined Good360 in 2022 after 38 years with UPS, ending her career as president of Global Freight Forwarding for UPS Supply Chain Solutions. Her background in logistics and supply chain is a good match for Good360, which distributes goods donated by companies to qualified nonprofits.

In 2023, the organization distributed goods with a fair market value of $3 billion, impacting more than 26 million lives. Its disaster-recovery operations distributed $54 million in goods last year. Good360 rose to No. 2 on the Forbes List of America’s Top 100 Charities, based on the value of private contributions. In February, Good360 got involved with the Super Bowl’s excess 2024 T-shirts naming the San Francisco 49ers as the winner (the Kansas City Chiefs won), distributing them to people in Ukraine and other nations in need.

Morche, a 30-year telecommunications industry veteran, joined GTT in October 2023 after serving as president of Lumen Technologies’ North American Enterprise and Public Sector business. He worked at CenturyLink, which rebranded as Lumen in 2020, and Level 3 Communications, leading the consolidation of multiple commercial and technical organizations following Level 3’s merger with CenturyLink.

As CEO and member of the board of directors for the global provider of secure cloud networking solutions, Morche is focused on cementing GTT’s position in the managed secure access server edge (SASE) and network communications marketplace, leveraging his experience at Igaea Communications, Teleglobe, Global One and Sprint. 

Morche replaced Ernie Ortega, who was named interim CEO in 2020 and became permanent CEO the next year. Ortega oversaw GTT’s selling of its infrastructure division to a Miami firm and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2021, as well as its emergence from bankruptcy.

Morche attended the Catholic University of America, where he received a bachelor’s degree and a graduate degree from the School of Architecture and Planning. Morche previously served as director on the Virginia Hospital Center’s foundation board.

Codina started in her current position with Swedish company Alfa Laval after serving as senior vice president of its U.S. service and marine divisions. Since 2022, she has overseen North American operations for the company, a global manufacturer of heat transfer, separation and fluid-handling products, mainly for the energy, food and water, and marine industries.

Before joining Alfa Laval in 2019, Codina worked for Sandvik Coromant, a Swedish maker of manufacturing tools and machining solutions, holding positions that took her to Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and Mexico. At the London Business School, Codina studied business administration, sales and marketing. A native Spaniard, Codina also is a first-term member of the Women in Manufacturing Association’s 2024 board of directors.

Alfa Laval is working with the New York Climate Exchange, a climate research, education and innovation campus on Governors Island in New York set to open in 2028. It will provide wastewater and heat-transfer solutions for the project, which will be led by Stony Brook University.

Robinson took over in early August as the head of Framatome Inc., the Lynchburg-based North American subsidiary of the French nuclear equipment, services and fuel producer.

A former executive for Framatome and BWX Technologies, Robinson replaced Katherine Williams, who became CEO in 2023 and retired this year after
20 years with Framatome.

Robinson, who has about 35 years of industry experience, previously was senior vice president and chief nuclear officer of Structural Integrity Associates, a North Carolina company providing engineering services for the energy industry. Before that he had been an executive for BWXT in Lynchburg and worked for about 25 years for Framatome and its predecessor, Areva.

Robinson has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Akron and is a board member for the Central Virginia YMCA in Lynchburg.

In April, Framatome broke ground on a $49.4 million expansion at its Mill Ridge Road facility in Lynchburg, where Operational Center of Excellence employees service and maintain nuclear reactors in North America and develop ideas for small nuclear reactors. The expansion is expected to add 515 jobs to the company’s complement of about 1,350 workers in Lynchburg.

Fleet became the ninth president of the world’s largest living history museum in 2020. Prior to that, he was CEO and president of 22nd Century Group and, before that, president and CEO of Richmond-based tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris USA. He’s also an adjunct professor in William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation launched in October 2023 a $600 million fundraising campaign to support preservation, education and civic engagement projects.

In March, the foundation and the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission hosted their second annual conference for officials planning events to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary in 2026, drawing participants from 37 states. And in July, Colonial Williamsburg Resorts began construction on a nine-hole golf course.

Fleet holds four degrees from William & Mary: a law degree, MBA, a master’s degree in history and a bachelor’s in history and religion. He is immediate past chair of the William & Mary Foundation and co-chair of the Hampton Roads Executive Roundtable.

In late May, Fleet was fined $500 for striking and severely injuring a William & Mary student with his car in October 2023. The charge was reduced from reckless driving to improper driving.

Following the completion of an all-stock merger with Israel-based radar company Rada Electronic Industries in November 2022, defense contractor Leonardo DRS went public, with Lynn ringing the closing bell at the Nasdaq. Leonardo DRS’ parent company, Italian defense contractor Leonardo SpA, retains 80.5% ownership of the $3 billion Arlington-based defense company.

In 2023, Leonardo DRS reported $2.83 billion in revenue, an increase of 5% from $2.69 billion in 2022.

Lynn served as deputy secretary of defense during President Barack Obama’s first term, as comptroller of the Department of Defense from 1997 to 2001, and as counsel for U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy on the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1987 to 1993. He also worked as senior vice president of government operations and strategy for Raytheon. Lynn joined Leonardo DRS in 2012.

Lynn holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth, a master’s degree from Princeton and a law degree from Cornell Law School. He has received numerous federal government awards for public service.

In June, Ryan was named managing partner of the D.C. metro office and federal sector leader for KPMG. He oversees 3,000 employees in the region and is responsible for leading market strategy, client care and growing KPMG’s brand and relationships. As federal sector leader, Ryan oversees the Big Four accounting firm’s federal audit and advisory practices, supporting more than 2,000 employees.

Ryan began his career in 2000 at KPMG’s D.C. audit practice before serving as senior director for SEC reporting at InPhonic and vice president for accounting and valuation services at Integral Financial Group. He returned to KPMG in 2011 as a partner in the firm’s audit practice, serving federal and commercial clients. He was appointed U.S. and Americas leader for accounting advisory services in 2020.

Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from James Madison University and is a certified public accountant.

In the past year, KPMG, which posted global revenue of $36 million in fiscal 2023, has axed more than 400 roles and frozen the pay of about 12,000 staffers in the United Kingdom as it contends with a market slowdown.

With more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate sales strategy, training and professional development, Schoppmann leads six offices in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., with more than 130,000 employees. Schoppmann joined CBRE in 2007 as managing director of brokerage services in New York City, and in 2020, she was promoted to the real estate giant’s mid-Atlantic division.

She also is part of CBRE’s global Executive Inclusion Council, a senior leadership team committed to the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategy and is a founding member of Chief’s Washington chapter, a private membership network that centers on connecting and supporting women executive leaders. In 2023, she was featured in Washingtonian magazine’s list of the D.C. region’s most powerful women.

Schoppmann received her bachelor’s in civil engineering at Duke University and her MBA in finance from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business.