Sign In
Free Newsletter
Government/Politics: KELLY T. GEE
After serving as the Virginia Lottery’s acting executive director since January, Gee was made the lottery’s permanent leader by Gov. Glenn Youngkin in June. She heads an agency that generated $3.5 billion in fiscal 2022, with more than $770 million in lottery profits going to Virginia public schools. Gee has been with the in[...]
Manufacturing: M. SCOTT CULBRETH
Culbreth is a Virginia Tech graduate who has worked for American Woodmark since 2014, starting as its chief financial officer before being named president and CEO in 2020. The company, which sells cabinets under the brands American Woodmark, Shenandoah Cabinetry, Timberlake Cabinetry and Waypoint Living Spaces, grew its revenue [...]
Real Estate: PAUL C. SAVILLE
Saville joined Ryan Homes, now a subsidiary of NVR, in 1981. Rising through the ranks of the homebuilding business, Saville worked as its chief financial officer, treasurer and executive vice president before being named president and CEO in 2005. Earlier this year, Saville was named executive chairman of NVR’s board, and Eugene J. Bredow succeeded […]
Economic Development: TAYLOR V. ADAMS
Adams’ favorite vacation spot is Virginia Beach, and his favorite beverage is the city’s famous orange crush, a mixture of vodka, orange liqueur, a splash of lemon-lime soda, and freshly squeezed orange juice. Nevertheless, this summer Adams was a finalist for the position of city manager in Salem, Oregon, a job that went to[...]
Arts/Entertainment/Sports: ALEX NYERGES
Last year, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts embarked on a $190 million expansion and renovation plan that will add a 170,000-square-foot wing. Earlier this year, Nyerges said that wing would be named for philanthropists James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin, who made a $60 million gift toward the expansion campaign. A project o[...]
Hospitality/Tourism: ERIC D. TERRY
The pandemic shuttered one out of five Virginia restaurants. Lingering labor, supply chain problems, inflation and high gas prices have continued to plague the hospitality industry, which had 88,000 vacant jobs statewide as of August. Terry advocates on behalf of the Virginia Restaurant, Lodging & Travel Association’s 1,50[...]
Law: THE HON. ROGER GREGORY
The son of tobacco factory workers, Gregory has spent his life blazing trails. He’s the first person in his family to graduate from high school. After graduating from Virginia State University and the University of Michigan Law School, he and future Gov. L. Douglas Wilder founded a Richmond law firm in 1982. Wilder became the [...]
Finance/Insurance: CHRISTOPHER M. ‘CHRIS’ SHOCKLEY
Shockley launched his banking career working as a teller while still an economics student at Radford University. The Roanoke native ultimately spent 14 years in retail banking in Virginia and North Carolina before joining Virginia Credit Union in 2003 as senior vice president of member services. Receiving an MBA from Liberty Uni[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: D. JAMES BIDZOS
Verisign reported $1.33 billion in 2021 revenue, a nearly 5% improvement over the previous year. Founded by Bidzos in 1995, the company is a domain name registry and internet infrastructure provider; it serves as the registry for all addresses that end in .com — more than 350 million domain names as of the first quarter [&hell[...]
Law: PHILIPPE J.C. SIGNORE
Signore began his career as a physicist, earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and then a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. After earning his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, he transitioned to handling patents and intellectual property matters for a variet[...]
Nonprofits/Philanthropy: DEBORAH M. DiCROCE
DiCroce has led the Hampton Roads Community Foundation since 2012, but before that, she spent more than three decades in higher education. As president of Tidewater Community College for 14 years, she led a decade of expansion at TCC. She also served nine years as president of Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesvil[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: MATT CALKINS
While cloud computing and enterprise software firm Appian expects revenues of up to $446 million in 2022, a 21% increase from 2021, don’t expect any of that to come from Russia. Calkins told Yahoo! Finance in April that his company has never done business with “Putin’s Russia” and urged others to follow suit as global [&[...]
