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Breakout Capital promotes McLean Wilson to CEO and president
McLean-based financial services company Breakout Capital LLC has promoted McLean Wilson from chief credit officer to chief executive officer and president, the company announced Jan. 14. Wilson joined Breakout — which provides capital loans and underwriting to small businesses —in 2016 as the company’s first lender. In h[...]
GreeneHurlocker promotes Paul Allen to operations officer
Henrico County-based law firm GreeneHurlocker has promoted Paul Allen to operations officer, Co-Managing Member Brian Greene announced Friday. Allen joined GreeneHurlocker in August 2016 as a paralegal and operations manager, having previously working as a paralegal both locally and nationally. He earned a bachelor’s degree f[...]
Mid-Atlantic CCIM Chapter names new president
The Mid-Atlantic Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) Chapter has elected Heather Placer of Richmond-based real estate agency Shaheen, Ruth, Martin & Fonville as its chapter president, the organization announced Friday. There are more than 13,000 members in 50 CCIM chapters globally — each focused on networking an[...]
Reston software company names VP of customer success
Reston-based marketing software company Triblio named Acacia Waller as its vice president of customer success, the company announced Thursday. Triblio is the developer of an account-based marketing platform designed to orchestrate marketing and sales campaigns, provide audience management (account leads), track sales activity, p[...]
Local Initiatives Support Corp. names new Va. executive director
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) has selected Jane Ferrara as executive director of LISC Virginia, a nonprofit organization that raises capital and creates programs to support community revitalization and economic development. Ferrara starts the new position Feb. 3. LISC has raised more than $32 million locally and has invested $639 million into Richmond-area housing, […]
West Cary Group hires former ChamberRVA CEO as senior policy adviser
Richmond-based strategic communications firm West Cary Group has hired former ChamberRVA CEO Kim Scheeler as its senior policy adviser, the company announced Wednesday. Scheeler, who retired from the chamber in December 2019, will split his time between Richmond and Port Charlotte, Florida, for his new position. He worked for Ch[...]
Focused Ultrasound Foundation names chief relationship officer
Charlottesville-based Focused Ultrasound Foundation has named Ann Taylor its chief relationship officer, the nonprofit organization announced Wednesday. She will start on March 1. Taylor has more than 27 years of nonprofit leadership experience as executive vice president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and as executive direc[...]
Colliers Virginia names boards of directors
Colliers Virginia — part of Colliers International Group Inc. — has appointed members to its two boards of directors overseeing Colliers’ five regional offices in Virginia, the company announced Tuesday. The regional company has a national board of directors comprised of three senior leaders from Colliers International[...]
Tysons insurance broker Ames & Gough promotes three execs
Ames & Gough Insurance Risk Management Inc. CEO Dan Knise will also serve as the chair of the Tysons-based insurance broker, which announced Tuesday that it was also promoting two senior executives to leadership positions. As chair and CEO, Knise will focus on the firm’s strategy and initiatives and will mentor new employe[...]
Reston IT provider 1901 Group names executive VP
Reston-based IT service provider 1901 Group LLC has named George Batsakis as its executive vice president and chief strategy officer, the company announced Tuesday. Batsakis will lead the company’s overall strategy planning and development, executive management, operations, new business development, emerging technology and par[...]
CoreMedia AG appoints chief revenue officer
Content management systems developer CoreMedia AG has promoted Jim Stirewalt to chief revenue officer, the company announced Monday. Stirewalt most recently was CoreMedia’s senior vice president and general manager of the Americas. He has also held leadership roles at software companies including SAP and IBM. Stirewalt will ma[...]
Reston-based Ellucian names chief product officer
Reston-based higher education software company Ellucian has named Stephen Laster as its chief product officer, the company announced Friday. Ellucian provides products for higher education such as student information systems, data analytics tools and graduation-tracking platforms for more than 2,700 customers. Laster will lead p[...]
