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Virginia Beach-based Towne Insurance promotes executive leaders
Virginia Beach-based independent insurance agency Towne Insurance has promoted multiple executives in leadership positions. Towne Insurance CFO Boyd Griffin was promoted to executive vice president and will retain his duties as CFO. Chris Rogerson was appointed as chief operating officer. Rogerson joined the agency in 2017 as vice president and manager of the select business […]
Virginia Tech Innovation Campus names Cornell dean as executive director
Lance R. Collins, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University, has been selected as the first vice president and executive director of Virginia Tech’s $1 billion Innovation Campus, which is set to open in Alexandria’s North Potomac Yard area in the fall. He will join Virginia Tech as of Aug. 1. The Innov[...]
Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority names vice chairman
Kenneth D. Penrose Jr. has been elected as vice chairman for the Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority for the 2020-year term, commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced Jan. 28. Penrose has been with Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer since 2000. He currently serves as vice president of commercial sales and […]
New GRTC chief sets Richmond transit priorities
After 25 years in the transportation industry, Julie Timm went back to school to get her MBA. “I wanted to understand the business world,” explains the new CEO of the Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC), the region’s municipal bus system. “Sometimes when transit people talk to our business partners, it’s like we’[...]
The Virginia Bar Association names 132nd president
The Virginia Bar Association (VBA) installed Alison M. McKee as its 2020 president, effective Jan. 25, the organization announced Tuesday. McKee is the 132nd president of the VBA. McKee is an attorney at the Virginia Beach branch of the Norfolk-based law firm Kaufman & Canoles P.C. Her practice is focused on banking and fina[...]
Richmond-based architecture firm launches new studio, names director
Richmond-based architecture firm Glavé & Holmes Architecture has named Susan Reed as the director of its new studio focused on historic preservation. With the addition of Reed’s studio, the firm now comprises seven studios and employs more than 70 people. Glavé & Holmes Architecture serves higher education inst[...]
Colliers International promotes three employees to exec leadership
Commercial real estate firm Colliers International’s Richmond office has promoted three employees to executive leadership positions, the company announced Friday. Will Bradley has been promoted to executive vice president. Bradley leads the Richmond office and the industrial investment sales team, specializing in instituti[...]
Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announces leadership promotions
Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced on Friday two senior vice president promotions, six first vice president promotions and four vice president promotions. Isaac DeRegibus has been promoted to senior vice president. DeRegibus has been with Thalhimer’s Richmond office since 2011 and specializes in industrial and off[...]
Matrix Capital Markets Group adds two directors
Richmond-based independent investment bank Matrix Capital Markets Group Inc. has promoted William J. O’Flaherty and Stephen C. Lynch as directors. O’Flaherty has been a member of the investment bank’s consumer and industrial products group since 2011. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce with a concen[...]
Williams Mullen taps new chief admin officer and CFO
Richmond-based Williams Mullen, the state’s third-largest law firm, has promoted Billie Jo Brooks to chief administrative officer and Brett Harn as chief financial officer. “Billie Jo and Brett both bring valuable experience and insight to areas critical to Williams Mullen’s operations,” Williams Mullen COO Craig Rascoe said in a statement released Thursday. “We look forward […][...]
Gentry Locke announces 2020 management committee
Roanoke-based law firm Gentry Locke appointed one managing partner and five partners from its Roanoke and Richmond offices to its 2020 management committee, Gentry Locke announced Tuesday. Managing Partner Monica T. Monday will lead the management committee. Monday has been the firm’s managing partner since 2013 and in her new[...]
SafeGuard Cyber names senior VP for information security, corporate affairs
Charlottesville-based SaaS security platform provider SafeGuard Cyber has hired Thomas A. Dukes Jr. as its senior vice president for information security and corporate affairs, the company announced Tuesday. Dukes has more than 25 years of experience in cyber policy. He has previously served as the U.S. State Department’s [...]
