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Education: TIMOTHY ‘TIM’ SANDS
Having previously served as acting president, executive vice president and provost of Purdue University, Sands joined Virginia Tech as its president in 2014. Since then, the land-grant university has expanded statewide, particularly in Alexandria, where it broke ground on its $1 billion Innovation Campus in 2021. Nicknamed “th[...]
Law: DANIEL C. SUMMERLIN III
Summerlin joined Woods Rogers immediately after his graduation from William & Mary School of Law in 1997, and he now leads the nearly 130-year-old firm, which grew significantly larger this year after the Roanoke firm’s merger with Norfolk-based Vandeventer Black. Finalized on July 1, the merger formed what Summerlin calls[...]
Arts/Entertainment/Sports: CLAY CAMPBELL
Campbell, who’s been president of Martinsville Speedway for nearly 35 years, runs the track his grandfather built in 1947. He worked at the track from a young age, mowing grass and painting walls, and started in the maintenance department after graduating from high school in 1978. The Martinsville native is a pilot and a forme[...]
Government/ Politics: WINSOME EARLE-SEARS
Earle-Sears made Virginia history last year when she was elected to the office of lieutenant governor — as the first woman to serve in the position, as well as the first woman of color and Jamaican-born person elected to statewide office in the commonwealth. As lieutenant governor, her primary duty is to break ties in [&hellip[...]
Law: WILLIAM R. ‘BILL’ VAN BUREN III
A past president of the Virginia Bar Association and the Virginia Law Foundation, Van Buren joined his firm — then known as Canoles, Mastracco, Martone, Barr and Russell — in 1981, after graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law. Also a William & Mary alum, Van Buren comes from the family that formerly [&h[...]
Finance/Insurance: NIGEL MORRIS
The website Crowdfund Insider describes Morris “as one of the most famous and successful fintech investors in the world.” Along with Richard Fairbank, who Morris calls “one of the most special human beings on the planet,” Morris co-founded Capital One Financial Corp. in the early 1990s. He left his position as Capital On[...]
Real Estate: BOB MILKOVICH
Milkovich joined Rand, a privately owned, nationwide commercial general contractor specializing in retail and restaurant construction, tenant interiors and building renovations, in January 2019 as its chief. He succeeded Linda Rabbitt, who founded the company more than three decades ago. Before that, Milkovich served as CEO of F[...]
Education: AIMEE ROGSTAD GUIDERA
With a background in K-12 education strategy, Guidera was the first person appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin to his Cabinet, announced a month after the Republican was elected governor. Before becoming state education secretary, she ran an education consultancy, Guidera Strategy, and also founded the Data Quality Campaign, a no[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: ROY AZEVEDO
When Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a subsidiary of Fortune 500 defense giant Raytheon Technologies Corp., acquired Colorado-based space electronics firm SEAKR Engineering for an undisclosed sum in late 2021, Azevedo spoke about the race to control space. “Today’s growing space market demands greater innovation, technolo[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: WILLIAM H. ‘BILL’ DEAN
When Dean took over as CEO of the electrical engineering firm founded by his grandfather in 1949, M.C. Dean had “150 good employees with good DNA and a great work ethic,” Dean told Virginia Business in 2020. Dean joined the company in 1990 to start its technology division and became president and CEO in 1997. […]
Education: BRIAN O. HEMPHILL
Hemphill is no stranger to building partnerships. After becoming Old Dominion University’s president in summer 2021, he helped forge a partnership between ODU, Norfolk State University and Eastern Virginia Medical School to create a regional school of public health. Later in the year, ODU, EVMS and Sentara Healthcare entere[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: TODD STOTTLEMYER
The head of health information technology company CNSI since 2018, Stottlemyer remained CEO after the company changed hands in December 2021. Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group purchased CNSI, which was founded in 1994 as Client Network Services Inc., for an undisclosed amount. CNSI processes medical cl[...]
