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Aug 30, 2023

Finance | Insurance 2023: JOHN C. STANCHINA

Stanchina became mid-Atlantic CEO for professional services and insurance firm Marsh McLennan Agency in 2011. Named a top workplace by the Richmond Times-Dispatch for the past four years, the agency provides business insurance, employee health insurance and benefits, retirement and private client insurance products. Stanchina wa[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Government | Politics 2023: MARK WARNER

Like his junior colleague, Tim Kaine, Warner served as governor of Virginia before being elected to the U.S. Senate. He is now in his third term as Virginia’s senior senator. A moderate Democrat, Warner chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and is vice chair of the Senate Democratic caucus. He also serves on Finance subcomm[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: BRUCE L. CASWELL

With over 50,000 employees worldwide, Tysons-based Maximus has been supporting government services programs for more than 50 years and runs Medicare and Affordable Care Act customer help lines, as well as pandemic vaccinations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Caswell joined Maximus in 2004 and has been preside[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Real Estate 2023: JON JENNINGS

The third generation to lead the general contracting firm started as a masonry firm in 1952 by his grandfather, bricklayer Lawrence Floyd Jennings, Jon Jennings oversees about 350 employees and a large portfolio of projects in the Richmond and Washington, D.C., regions. Larry Jennings, L.F.’s son and Jon’s father, joined the[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Telecommunications 2023: DAVID C. WAJSGRAS

Wajsgras took over as CEO of Intelsat in April 2022 soon after the McLean-based satellite operator’s emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and financial restructuring. A little more than a year later, in June 2023, news surfaced that merger talks between Intelsat and its Luxembourg-based competitor SES had been called off. Las[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Law 2023: WILLIAM R. ‘BILL’ VAN BUREN III

Growing up in a family that formerly owned the Daily Press newspaper in Newport News, Van Buren learned to manage a wide variety of challenges. From canyoning in the Swiss Alps to negotiating complex mergers, he’s always enjoyed learning new skills, although Van Buren says he “still gets the shakes” when he looks at the [&[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN GOODMAN

Formerly an associate professor at Harvard Business School and deputy undersecretary for industrial affairs and installations at the Department of Defense, Goodman now leads Accenture subsidiary AFS, a federal contractor offering IT services. He previously held several leadership roles at Accenture before becoming CEO of AFS in [...]

Aug 30, 2023

Professional Services 2023: JENNIFER WOLD

Wold comes to Virginia from Wichita, Kansas. Wold, who became Forvis’ top executive in the commonwealth on June 1, oversees the top 10 accounting firm’s offices in Richmond and Norfolk. Coincidentally, June also marked the one-year anniversary of the merger between Missouri-based BKD CPAs & Advisors and North Carolina-ba[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Manufacturing 2023: THOMAS E. ‘TEDDY’ GOTTWALD

Gottwald is a third-generation leader of NewMarket, parent company of Afton Chemical and Ethyl. A VMI alumnus, he joined NewMarket in 1984 and worked in its petroleum additives and former plastics businesses before succeeding his father, Bruce, as chairman of the board two decades later. NewMarket traces its roots to Ethyl Gasol[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Manufacturing 2023: MANMEET S. BHATIA

Bhatia joined Japanese-owned Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp. (TMEIC) in 2003 as general manager of operations for Toshiba and Mitsubishi’s U.S.-based joint venture with General Electric that ultimately became TMEIC Americas, a regional subsidiary that designs and develops advanced automation systems, large[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Professional Services 2023: STEPHANIE R. PETERS

Peters has led the state’s professional association for CPAs since 1997, representing more than 13,000 members who work in private and public sectors, including educational institutions. In April, the VSCPA announced its investment in the Center for Audit Quality’s Accounting+ program, a national campaign to attract a new ge[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Transportation 2023: CHARLES W. McDANIEL

As the third generation of his family to lead Hilldrup, McDaniel has been president and CEO since 2005. He started working at the now 120-year-old Fredericksburg-based moving, storage and logistics company at age 12. McDaniel also chairs the board for UniGroup, the Missouri-based parent company of United Van Lines and Mayflower [...]

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