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Finance/Insurance: PETE SNYDER
Snyder lost his bid to be the Republican candidate for governor in 2021, but it didn’t sour him on state politics. Snyder campaigned for Glenn Youngkin last year (he won) and in March, he endorsed state Sen. Bryce Reeves for the Republican primary for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District seat (he lost). While running for of[...]
Media: TIMOTHY O’SHAUGHNESSY
Under O’Shaughnessy’s leadership, Graham Holdings has made the Fortune 1000 list for the last three years. O’Shaughnessy replaced his father-in-law, Donald Graham, as the company’s president and CEO in 2015. O’Shaughnessy was at the company for a year before taking the top spot, working to seek “a new direction” fo[...]
Transportation: P. DALE BENNETT
Bennett, whose father was a trucker for two decades, started working at VTA as an assistant to the executive vice president in 1984. He’s led the nonprofit organization since 1989. VTA advocates for the state’s trucking fleets and industry vendors, which have been hard hit amid the pandemic by driver shortages, supply-chain [...]
Transportation: MICHAEL W. COLEMAN
Logistics and supply chain firm CV International Inc. has continued to grow, acquiring Savannah, Georgia-based independent shipper and freight forwarder Ryan Ship Services in May. CV International now has about 100 employees throughout the mid-Atlantic, including 55 in Virginia. Coleman, a licensed customs broker, grew up workin[...]
Law: BRIDGET LONG
A personal injury trial attorney, Long is the 2022-23 president of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. Long previously served as president of the American Board of Trial Advocates. She is also second vice chair for the American Association for Justice’s Women Trial Lawyers Caucus. The Virginia native grew up in South Bosto[...]
2022 Virginia 500: Professional Services
JEREMY BLANK GREATER WASHINGTON MANAGING PARTNER, DELOITTE LLP, McLEAN JACOB BLONDIN PRESIDENT AND CEO, RD HOLDINGS LLC, RETAILDATA LLC, INTRICS, GLEN ALLEN GLORIA BOHAN FOUNDER, PRESIDENT AND CEO, OMEGA WORLD TRAVEL, McLEAN KRISTEN CAVALLO CEO, THE MARTIN AGENCY, RICHMOND PAIGE CLAY SENIOR PARTNER, MID-SOUTH MARKET, MERCER LLC, […]
Arts/Entertainment/Sports: CORAN CAPSHAW
One of Billboard magazine’s Power 100, Capshaw founded Red Light Management in 1991 in Charlottesville, while helping Dave Matthews Band grow organically from a local favorite to a powerhouse touring group. The largest independent music management company in the world, Red Light has reaped a reported $500 million in tour[...]
Arts/Entertainment/Sports: TODD ‘PARNEY’ PARNELL
Parnell has been strategizing a financial comeback for the Flying Squirrels — the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. Revenues were down more than 95% in 2020, when the season was canceled due to the pandemic. Parnell, who came to Richmond with the team in 2010, makes more than 100 appearances a year for [&hellip[...]
Education: LANCE R. COLLINS
As vice president and director of Virginia Tech’s $1 billion Innovation Campus, which is under development in Alexandria, Collins has helped forge a series of major partnerships in Northern Virginia. In May 2021, The Boeing Co. committed $50 million to become the first foundational partner to the campus, which is part of a sta[...]
Education: JERRY PREVO
After nearly 50 years as pastor of Alaska’s prominent Anchorage Baptist Temple, Prevo became Liberty University’s interim president in summer 2020 after Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned amid scandal. In addition to inheriting the state’s largest college by enrollment (Liberty reported 2021 enrollment of 95,148 students, most of [...]
Energy: ANDRÉS GLUSKI
For the last decade, Gluski has championed renewable energy production and carbon emission reduction as the head of AES, a Fortune 500 electric utility that generates and distributes power to 14 countries. AES has used renewable power generation for years. In 2021, Gluski announced a plan to reach net-zero carbon emissions from [...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: CRAIG P. ABOD
With more than 2,200 employees around the globe — including more than 1,300 in Virginia — Carahsoft ranked No. 44 on Forbes’ list of the nation’s largest private companies in 2021. The company reported more than $10 billion in revenue last year. Abod founded Carahsoft in 2004. He is an eight-time Wash100 recipient, inclu[...]
