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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[...]
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 studen[...]
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 recipien[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: REGGIE AGGARWAL
Aggarwal’s passion for his work comes from watching people grow. In the 23 years since he founded Cvent, a meetings and events technology provider, it has grown to include about 4,600 employees worldwide, including about 800 in Virginia. It took in $518.8 million in revenue in fiscal 2021. After revamping itself for the vi[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: MEHUL P. SANGHANI
Sanghani described a college career filled more with hijinks than academics when he delivered the commencement speech to Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering in May. A 1998 VT graduate with bachelor’s degrees in systems engineering, finance and psychology, he moved with his family from India to Blacksburg, where th[...]
Government/Politics: C. TODD GILBERT
A member of Virginia’s House of Delegates since 2006, Gilbert served as House majority leader before the chamber flipped to Democratic control in 2020. Now that it has flipped back to Republicans, he has been elected speaker. A staunch conservative, Gilbert has received ‘A’ grades on the Virginia Chamber of Commerc[...]
Nonprofits/Philanthropy: LAWRENCE A. ‘LARRY’ SELZER
Since 1985, The Conservation Fund has aimed to protect historically significant lands and ensure healthy outdoor spaces in underserved communities. That includes facilitating the return of tribal lands to Indigenous communities, which the fund’s longtime president and CEO says is in keeping with the nonprofit’s missi[...]
Retail/Wholesale: STEVE PRESLEY
In January, following a reorganization of the Swiss food company, Presley went from serving as president and CEO of the U.S. division of Nestlé to leading its North American zone and landing a seat on the company’s executive board. North America is Nestlé’s largest market, with annual sales of $26.59 billion. It[...]
Law: DOUGLAS S. GRANGER
Granger spends his days working through billion-dollar multinational acquisitions with companies in the United Kingdom. He spends his down time volunteering at church or coaching his kids’ sports. Work is a priority, he says. But so is his family and faith. “Life is more fun when you serve others and don’t take you[...]
Telecommunications: VINCE APRUZZESE JR.
A year after graduating from Georgia State University in 1986, Apruzzese began his career at AT&T. He started in accounts payable, worked in corporate security and then worked his way up to regulatory and external affairs. Apruzzese became AT&T’s Virginia president in 2010, overseeing public policy. He’s also[...]
Living Legends: BRUCE COBB GOTTWALD SR.
Gottwald is the former CEO of NewMarket Corp., the $2.4 billion parent company of Afton Chemical Corp. and Ethyl Corp. NewMarket’s history goes back to 1887 as Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Co., which Gottwald’s father, the late Floyd D. Gottwald Sr., led starting in 1941. Two decades later, he acquired Ethyl in a mo[...]
