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Manufacturing 2024: DAVID LEDESMA
Ledesma became the plant manager of DuPont’s Spruance site in 2021 after serving in the same role at its Buffalo, New York, facility. Built in 1929, DuPont’s Spruance site is the largest of the company’s manufacturing facilities worldwide; it has more than 2,000 employees and produces Tyvek, Nomex and Kevlar. In May, DuPon[...]
Government | Politics 2024: MARK WARNER
Virginia’s Democratic senior senator, Warner is particularly known for chairing the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence — and, thanks to a viral pandemic-era video, for making a tuna melt that has been variously described as “cursed” and “an atrocity.” The co-founder of Nextel and Capital Cellular, with an es[...]
Health Care 2024: DR. WILLIAM LUNN
In 2023, Lunn was promoted to president of the Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA’s Capital Division, which includes 18 hospitals across three states, including Virginia. In November, officials celebrated the opening of the new Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Salem’s LewisGale Medical Center. The next month, workers beg[...]
Banking | Finance 2024: JEAN STACK
A look at Baird’s defense and government sector business for 2023 shows that the year proved challenging, with merger and acquisitions down by 24%. Even so, the team managed to close 12 M&A transactions valued at more than $7 billion in aggregate. In 2024, Baird advised Herndon’s LinQuest, an engineering, data analytic[...]
Government | Politics 2024: ROB WITTMAN
Representing parts of the Richmond and Hampton Roads suburbs, as well as the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula, Republican Wittman is wrapping up his eighth term in the U.S. House and will face Democrat Leslie Mehta in November for the chance to serve a ninth. A former environmental health specialist and field director for the [...]
Government | Politics 2024: C. TODD GILBERT
After a 2022-24 stint as speaker of the House during Republicans’ two-year control of that chamber, Gilbert returned to the position of minority leader after Democrats narrowly retook power this year following the 2023 elections. The Shenandoah Valley conservative is a key ally to Gov. Glenn Youngkin in the General Assembly, w[...]
Retail 2024: ARTHUR ‘BO’ FISHER III
Fisher Auto Parts, one of the nation’s largest automotive-parts retailers with 500 locations, is a family affair. Blair Coiner, Bo Fisher’s grandfather, founded the company in 1929 as a small auto-parts sales concern, and it grew under the leadership of Fisher’s father, Art, who died in 2004. A James Madison University gra[...]
Transportation 2024: DAVID WHITE
A William & Mary alum, White has been at the helm of the Virginia Maritime Association since 2018. He began working with the advocacy organization in 2003, representing the interests of the state’s maritime, logistics and transportation companies. White also serves as executive vice president and secretary for the Hampton [...]
Manufacturing 2024: ROB COLLIER
Collier served in the U.S. Army from 2004 to 2008 and was an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper before starting his career path. From 2012 to 2018, he was employed in ChemTreat’s marketing division. He left to become president of McCrometer, a flowmeter manufacturer and Danaher subsidiary out of California. In 2020, Collier re[...]
Living Legends 2024: GLORIA BOHAN
As the founder of the largest woman-owned business in the greater Washington, D.C., area, Bohan has been breaking glass ceilings since before the phrase was invented. Inspired by her honeymoon cruise on the Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1970, she founded her company in 1972 with one employee. It has grown it into a billion-dollar company[...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2024: DANY GARCIA
Garcia, the ex-wife of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is now his part-time neighbor in the horse country of Virginia’s Orange County. Although the couple divorced in 2008 and both are remarried to different partners, Garcia still is the movie star’s global strategic adviser and co-owns Seven Bucks Productions, their film and[...]
Health Care 2024: EDWARD A. PESICKA
Fortune 500 health care logistics and supply company Owens & Minor is in the process of moving its headquarters to Henrico’s Innsbrook Corporate Center after selling its Mechanicsville building to the Virginia Department of Transportation for $33.5 million. Pesicka, who became the company’s chief executive in 2019, ann[...]
