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Economic Development: JENNIFER WAKEFIELD
The Lego Group’s June announcement that it will build a $1 billion toy factory in Chesterfield County is the largest deal so far that Wakefield has played a part in landing. Wakefield joined the nonprofit regional economic development organization as its senior vice president of marketing in 2017 after spending 11 years in mar[...]
Economic Development: TELLY TUCKER
Tucker returned to Danville in May after a two-year stint as economic development director for Arlington County. As he departed, The Boeing Co. and Raytheon Technologies Corp. both announced they would be relocating their global headquarters to Arlington, making Northern Virginia home to four of the top defense contractors in th[...]
Manufacturing: ROB WERGE
In May, Werge was named president and CEO of the high-tech medical device maker, succeeding Alan Connor, who led the company for a decade. Over the span of Werge’s career, he’s held leadership positions with several other contract manufacturers, including Nypro and Phillips-Medisize, where he served as vice president and gen[...]
Professional Services: PAIGE CLAY
A human resources, finance and operations executive with a track record of generating growth while transforming culture to deliver on business strategy, Clay has experience with acquisition integration, strategy creation, talent assessment and development, organizational design, recruiting and compensation. Clay began working fo[...]
Living Legends: FREDERICK NAPOLITANO SR.
New York native Napolitano moved to Virginia Beach in 1955, going on to make a major regional impact in commercial real estate and development. In 1966, he co-founded and developed Pembroke Mall, which is currently undergoing a $200 million redevelopment by his company. He is a past president of the National Association of Home [...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: MICHAEL SAYLOR
After bitcoin’s value nosedived below $17,600 in June, Saylor tweeted an edited photo of himself sporting a McDonald’s hat, serving fries and a hamburger. “Monday morning is time to get back to work. #Bitcoin,” he tweeted to his 2.6 million Twitter followers. MicroStrategy reported a $1.98 billion impairment loss on its [...]
Regional biz mentorship program jump-starts startups
Ruth Rau started her business as a hobby. Now, seven years later, her Winchester-based toy company — Mouse Loves Pig — is on track to generate revenue in six figures. The entrepreneur’s toys for babies and young children are sold in more than 250 stores in nine countries, and she’s partnered with a manufacturing company [...]
2022 Virginia 500: Moving up
When I give my elevator speech about the Virginia 500, it usually starts this way: It’s like the Fortune 500, but instead of focusing on companies, it’s about people. More specifically, unlike the Fortune 500, which ranks companies by gross revenues, this is a more subjective list. We strive to inventory the most powerful an[...]
Real Estate: ROBERT M. ‘BOB’ KING
Harvey Lindsay has a century-long legacy in Hampton Roads, where the commercial real estate company offers brokerage services and asset and property management. King is the adopted son of Harvey L. Lindsay Jr., a community pillar who continues to serve as the firm’s chairman in his 90s. Lindsay adopted King and his brother, Bi[...]
Agriculture: CORWIN HEATWOLE
Heatwole started his company in 2014 with a mission to promote and protect generational family farms. Eight years later, Farmer Focus, formerly known as Shenandoah Valley Organic, has partnered with 73 independent chicken farmers and is on track to exceed 100 partnerships by the end of 2022, ultimately providing organic poultry [...]
Retail/Wholesale: GEORGE L. HOLM
A scheduling conflict kept Holm from attending the ceremony when he was chosen as a 2019 inductee of the Grand Canyon University Alumni Hall of Fame. This March, Holm, who graduated from the Phoenix-based Christian university in 1977 with a degree in business administration, was finally able to travel to Arizona to accept the ho[...]
Real Estate: MARK HOURIGAN
Construction and development firm Hourigan Group changes skylines across Virginia — from a new Hyatt Place on the Virginia Beach oceanfront opened this summer to a 20-story downtown Richmond headquarters completed for Dominion Energy Inc. in 2019. Hourigan Group also is behind Virginia’s tallest timber building, a Charlotte[...]
