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Health Care: Dr. DAVID S. JEVSEVAR
With more than 30 years in orthopedic medicine, Jevsevar leads the largest independent orthopedic practice in Virginia. He joined OrthoVirginia in May after spending more than seven years as chair and regional vice president of orthopedics for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics in New Hampshire. Before that, he ran [...]
Living Legends: GEORGE J. PEDERSEN
In February, Reuters ran an exclusive story: ManTech International Corp. co-founder Pedersen was considering selling the U.S. defense contracting firm that the octogenarian built more than 50 years earlier. It didn’t take long for suitors to come a-calling. In May, ManTech announced that Washington, D.C.-based private equity f[...]
Living Legends: THURSTON MOORE
Moore has spent his career at Hunton Andrews Kurth, joining the state’s second largest firm fresh out of the University of Virginia School of Law in 1974. He served as managing partner from 1991 to 2006 and was also chairman of the firm’s executive committee from 2005 to 2012. Moore continues to practice, focusing on [&helli[...]
Media: CHARLIE WATKINS
Watkins is the CEO of separate but connected Virginia-based companies: Dominion Enterprises and Landmark. Dominion Enterprises is a digital marketing and software services company that was started under the umbrella of the former Landmark Communications, which owned The Virginian-Pilot and other newspapers. Landmark is a media a[...]
Retail/Wholesale: WARREN THOMPSON
A Black History Month event held in February at Smithfield’s Schoolhouse Museum recognized four prominent Black families of the region. Naturally, that list included the Thompsons. Patriarch Fred Thompson Sr. dreamed of attending the University of Virginia but was denied admission because of his race. Instead, he graduated fro[...]
Finance/Insurance: THOMAS RANSOM
Although he has a name straight out of a James Bond movie, Ransom opted to go into the sedate field of banking. He’s spent more than two decades in the industry, first at BB&T, where he served as greater Washington, D.C., market president, and then at Truist, the mega bank founded by the 2019 merger […]
Manufacturing: ROB COLLIER
An industrial water-treatment company founded in 1968, ChemTreat promoted Collier to president in July 2021. Now owned by Danaher Corp., ChemTreat is one of the largest specialty chemical companies in the United States and employs about 2,000 people across the Americas. Collier succeeded Steve Hire, ChemTreat’s previous presid[...]
Finance/Insurance: MARY McDUFFIE
McDuffie accepted a vice president of marketing position at Navy Federal Credit Union in 1999 because she liked that the top mission of the world’s largest credit union was serving members — not padding shareholders’ pockets. “I was excited by Navy Federal’s commitment to serve those in uniform and their families and t[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: MAHFUZ AHMED
Ahmed is no stranger to Staffing Industry Analysts’ list of most influential industry leaders, having landed on it five times in the 11 years since it was established. He co-founded DISYS in 1994 and has served as its CEO since 1998. It is now one of the largest information technology staffing firms in the country, […]
Federal Contractors/Technology: REX D. GEVEDEN
Geveden, a former associate administrator and chief engineer for NASA, joined BWXT, a nuclear power and component supplier that reported $2.1 billion in revenue last year, as its chief operating officer in 2015, becoming CEO in 2017. A graduate of Murray State University, he logged nearly a decade as an executive at Teledyne Tec[...]
2022 Virginia 500: Education
MAKOLA M. ABDULLAH PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY, ETTRICK JAVAUNE ADAMS-GASTON PRESIDENT, NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY, NORFOLK JONATHAN R. ALGER PRESIDENT, JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY, HARRISONBURG PETER BLAKE DIRECTOR, STATE COUNCIL OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR VIRGINIA, RICHMOND LANCE R. COLLINS VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, VIRGINIA TECH INNOVATION CAMPUS, ALEXANDRIA [&[...]
Retail/Wholesale: SHANE SMITH
Smith’s first year as CEO of Smithfield Foods has been busy and filled with challenges. He took his post a few days after the company, the world’s largest pork product manufacturer and hog producer, announced it would stop slaughtering pigs in Smithfield, its hometown. He also scheduled the closing of Smithfield’s operatio[...]
