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Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer names HR senior manager
Ryan Murchison has been promoted to senior human resources manager, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced Friday. Murchison joined the Richmond-based real estate firm in 2015 and will oversee human resources for all the company’s business lines and offices, which are in Richmond, Newport News, Virginia Beach, Frede[...]
Hollins University names VP for diversity, equity and inclusion
Hollins University on Wednesday announced it has appointed Nakeshia N. Williams as the new vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion at the private women’s liberal arts university in Roanoke. Prior to joining Hollins, Williams was an associate professor at North Carolina A&T State University, where she was an [...]
Mitre names new cyber technologies VP
McLean-based The Mitre Corp. has hired research scientist Wen Masters as its vice president for cyber technologies, effective May 17. Masters most recently worked at Georgia Tech Research Institute, where she served as deputy director for research and led its Information and Cyber Sciences Directorate. She was principal research[...]
Leidos names new CFO
Longtime Leidos Holdings Inc. executive Christopher Cage has been named as the Reston-based federal contractor’s new chief financial officer. Cage will begin his role July 5. He currently serves as senior vice president and chief accounting officer for the Fortune 500 company, where he’s worked since 1999. Cage was director of financial planning and analysis […]
Realtors society elects Dawn Griggs as mid-Atlantic regional director
Dawn Griggs, a first vice president with Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer, has been elected as a regional director for the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), the commercial real estate company announced today. Griggs will oversee the Mid-Atlantic Region of the 3,460-member brokerage association in a two-year te[...]
UVA Health taps chief ambulatory operations officer
UVA Health has named John C. Bennett its new chief ambulatory operations officer, overseeing all UVA Health clinical outpatient operations effective July 1. Bennett comes from PeaceHealth, a nonprofit health care system with facilities in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, where he was chief executive of ambulatory services. “UVA [...]
Luna Innovations Inc. taps new COO
Roanoke-based Luna Innovations Inc. has named Brian J. Soller its new chief operating officer, effective immediately. He was previously senior vice president and general manager of Lightwave, Luna’s largest division. The fiber optic tech company, which manufactures products for the aerospace, automotive, communications, de[...]
VCU names two vice presidents
Matthew A. Conrad and Karah L. Gunther will become vice presidents starting May 1 at Virginia Commonwealth University and the VCU Health System, the university announced Wednesday. Conrad has been named vice president for government and external relations for VCU and VCU Health System, a promotion from his previous position as e[...]
Norfolk Southern names new VP of government relations
Norfolk-based Norfolk Southern Corp. announced on Tuesday that its board of directors has elected Frank Voyack as the company’s vice president of government relations, effective May 1. Voyack succeeds Marque Ledoux, who is retiring after 18 years with the Fortune 500 freight railroad. In his new role, Voyack will lead Norfolk [...]
Capital Square names new VP of HR
Henrico-based real estate investment company Capital Square announced on Monday that it has promoted Tangela Lambert to the position of vice president of human resources. Lambert joined Capital Square in 2016 as its human resources director. Lambert has more than 10 years of experience in human resources and employee relations. [...]
Old Point Trust begins search for new chief
Old Point Trust & Financial Services President, Chairman and CEO Eugene M. Jordan II will become general counsel and corporate secretary for the Hampton-based wealth management services provider’s parent company, Old Point Financial Corp. Jordan, who has been Old Point Trust’s president and CEO for 19 years, will[...]
Hollins University appoints new provost
Hollins University has named Laura A. McLary as its new provost effective July 1, the Roanoke-based university announced this week. McLary arrives from the University of Portland in Oregon, where she served on the faculty teaching German starting in 1999 and became academic associate dean for the university’s College of Arts a[...]
