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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[...]
Finance/Insurance: JEFF BENTLEY
Boasting more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, Bentley has served as president and CEO of Northwest Federal Credit Union since 2017. Bentley came to Northwest Federal from Florida’s Achieva Credit Union in 2014 to work as senior vice president of lending. During his career, Bentley held leadershi[...]
Finance/Insurance: ROB FINNEGAN
In October 2021, Finnegan announced that West Creek Financial Inc., the fintech firm that partners with more than 15,000 stores and online businesses to offer point-of-sale financing for essential items ranging from furniture to mattresses to tires, had changed its name to Koalafi (pronounced “qualify”). To go along with a n[...]
Health Care: EDWARD A. PESICKA
Pesicka leads a Hanover County Fortune 500 health care logistics and medical supplies company that reported almost $9.8 billion in 2021 revenue and employs more than 20,000 people worldwide, about 1,400 of whom are in Virginia. He spent 15 years at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., leading go-to-market strategies as chief commercia[...]
Law: FARHAD AGHDAMI
An expert in tax and corporate law, Aghdami works with high net-worth individuals, middle-market business owners, institutional fiduciaries and charitable organizations on tax planning for wealth transfer, business succession, income tax planning and fiduciary litigation. A graduate of the University of Virginia and the Wake For[...]
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 […]
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 [...]
2022 Virginia 500: Energy
EDWARD H. ‘ED’ BAINE PRESIDENT, DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA, RICHMOND ROBERT ‘BOB’ BLUE CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, DOMINION ENERGY INC., RICHMOND ROBERT DUVALL PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA NATURAL GAS INC., VIRGINIA BEACH ANDRÉS GLUSKI PRESIDENT AND CEO, AES CORP., ARLINGTON COUNTY JOHN HEWA PRESIDENT AND CEO, RAPPAHANNOCK ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, FREDERICKSBURG DIANE [...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
