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Interim VP of Carilion Mental Health becomes permanent
Carilion Clinic has named Lisa Sprinkel its permanent vice president of Carilion Mental Health, adding to her duties as vice president of Carilion Clinic Home Health and Hospice department. With Dr. Robert Trestman, Carilion’s mental health chair, Sprinkel will lead the mental health team, which has a new location at Tangl[...]
Hampton Roads real estate firm promotes facilities director
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices RW Towne Realty has promoted Jimmy Gillerlain to director of facilities, the Chesapeake-based real estate firm announced Tuesday. Gillerlain will lead the operations team and oversee facilities management for all company-owned and managed assets. He was with Rose & Womble Realty for 17 years [...]
Sweet Briar College names alumna 14th president
Sweet Briar College will keep Mary Pope Maybank Hutson as its president permanently after serving as interim president since July, the private women’s college announced Thursday. Hutson is the 14th president of Sweet Briar and the Amherst County school’s first alumna president. A 1983 graduate with a degree in intern[...]
HII’s Mission Technologies names new CIO
Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries has named Marc Sosa as chief information officer for its McLean-based Mission Technologies division, the Fortune 500 contractor announced Thursday. Sosa will be responsible for all aspects of information technology, including guiding the division’s day-to-day leadership of inf[...]
Va. Tech hires CIO from Brown
Virginia Tech has named Sharon P. Pitt its vice president for information technology and chief information officer, the university announced Tuesday. Pitt will start her new role on Feb. 1, 2024. She returns to her alma mater from Brown University, where she is currently vice president for information technologies and chief info[...]
Norfolk makes economic development head permanent
The City of Norfolk will keep Sean Washington as its director of economic development permanently after serving as interim director since August 2022, the city announced Tuesday. His appointment was effective Nov. 6. Before serving as interim director, Washington was assistant director from November 2020 through August 2022, but[...]
Benchmark Community Bank, parent announce next CEO
Kenbridge-based holding company Benchmark Bankshares and its bank, Benchmark Community Bank, will have a new leader at the start of the new year. Jay A. Stafford, president and CEO of the holding company and CEO of Benchmark Community Bank, will retire Dec. 31. He will also retire from the bank’s and company’s boards of dire[...]
Brick Industry Association names new prez, CEO
The Reston-based Brick Industry Association has announced that Tricia Mauer will become its next president and CEO on Jan. 1, 2025. Mauer, who has served as the association’s vice president of membership and programs since 2016, will take over as chief operating officer for the organization on Jan. 1, 2024, and work in tha[...]
Thalhimer hires exec to lead multifamily biz
Drew Harbrecht has joined Thalhimer as senior vice president and will lead Thalhimer Multifamily, the firm’s residential property services division. He joins from Charleston, South Carolina-based Greystar Worldwide, where he led a management portfolio of nearly 10,000 units in Central Virginia and the Washington, D.C., Mar[...]
HII names new VP of engagement, intl. gov relations
Huntington Ingalls Industries has named retired British Army Brig. Gen. Paul Tennant corporate vice president of engagement and international government relations, the Newport News-based shipbuilder announced Wednesday. Tennant will be located in HII’s Arlington office and will work on national security policy and future force[...]
Medical Society of Va. elects new president
The Medical Society of Virginia elected Richmond-based Dr. Alice Coombs as its next president at the organization’s annual meeting Oct. 14. Coombs, a critical care specialist, anesthesiologist and internist, as well as the chair of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine’s anesthesiology department, is th[...]
DroneUp promotes chief growth officer
Virginia Beach-based DroneUp has promoted Rishap “Rish” Malhotra to be its growth officer, a newly created position at the autonomous drone delivery company. Malhotra had been DroneUp’s senior vice president of corporate development, and heading up the company’s mergers and acquisitions will be part of his new job, which the company announced Thursday. He will […]
