Sign In
Free Newsletter
MBA Consulting Services names COO
Chantilly-based management consulting firm MBA Consulting Services Inc. on Monday named Mark Colturi as chief operating officer. Colturi was most recently the executive vice president of Sevatec Inc., but served as principal of Booz Allen Hamilton for 25 years until 2012. He has approximately 35 years of experience total having [...]
United Way Worldwide names chief experience officer
Alexandria-based health and education nonprofit organization United Way Worldwide has named former SunTrust Foundation President as its chief experience officer, the organization announced Tuesday. In his new role, Little will lead all donor-facing functions and will be a part of the executive management team. He will report to [...]
Changing times
Town houses and apartments, storefronts and restaurants, grassy medians, pocket parks, sidewalks everywhere. Doesn’t this look a lot like a downtown? Picking up his mail in slippers and shorts on a brisk January day, Tandy Harris pauses to consider the question. “It does,” he agrees. “It’s got all the bells and[...]
Followups: Amazon begins work on HQ2 site
In late January, Amazon.com Inc. began clearing the site for the first of its two, 22-story HQ2 East Coast headquarters towers in Arlington, demolishing an old warehouse at Metropolitan Park near Pentagon City. And in related news, the Crystal City Business Improvement District’s board of directors voted on Jan. 23 to ch[...]
You can Google it
If it’s not one tech giant, it’s another. Ever since Amazon.com Inc. announced in late 2018 that it would open a second headquarters in Arlington County, discussions about workforce and real estate in Northern Virginia have fixed on the e-tailer. But Google LLC’s been busy, too. Last year the Mountain View, C[...]
Where the action is
In the wake of Amazon.com Inc.’s late 2018 announcement that its $2.5 billion HQ2 East Coast headquarters would locate in Arlington County, there’s been a game of musical chairs taking place among Northern Virginia’s economic development offices. Last July, Victor Hoskins, Arlington’s economic development[...]
The byte goes on
The tech sector is growing in Northern Virginia, prompted by Amazon.com Inc.’s $2.5 billion HQ2 East Coast headquarters in Arlington County and Google’s expansion in Fairfax and Loudoun counties as part of its $13 billion national growth plan. Also, a new regional coalition, the Northern Virginia Economic Development[...]
Maximum impact
When President Donald Trump stepped onstage at a General Dynamics Corp.-run factory last spring, an American flag and four M1 Abrams battle tanks served as his backdrop. “God Bless the U.S.A.” by Lee Greenwood played. Employees of the Lima, Ohio, plant chanted, “USA, USA!” and Trump smiled. “Well, you better love me,�[...]
ICF makes executive promotions
Fairfax-based management consulting firm ICF International Inc. promoted two employees to executive leadership roles, the company announced Friday. James Morgan will become chief of business operations and Bettina Welsh will become chief financial officer, effective Feb. 29. Morgan previously served as CFO at ICF and his role as[...]
Alexandria venture capital firm secures $350M in funding
Alexandria-based boutique venture capital firm QED Investors secured $350 million in funding for fintech companies in North America, South America and the United Kingdom, the company announced Wednesday, making it the sixth round of funding in the firm’s 12-year history. QED was co-founded in 2007 by Frank Rotman and Capital One Financial Corp. co-founder Nigel […]
Amazon signs lease on PBS HQ space in Arlington
Amazon.com Inc. has signed a lease with its HQ2 landlord and developer JBG Smith Properties for a 272,000-square-feet building in Arlington that has served as the headquarters for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) since 2006. The e-commerce giant expects to move into the space at 2100 Crystal Drive by the end of 2020. PBS will […]
Arlington’s Venture Global LNG signs sales agreement with French utility
A subsidiary of Arlington-based liquefied natural gas producer Venture Global LNG Inc. has entered into a 20-year sales and purchase agreement to provide 1 million tons of liquified natural gas per year to the world’s largest electricity producer, Électricité de France (EDF), Venture Global announced Tuesday. Venture Global Plaquemines LNG LLC, a 630-acre natural gas […]
