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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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Real Estate 2024: RONALD J. LAUSTER JR.
President of the firm since 2018, Lauster manages a wide array of innovative projects. One such project is the Virginia Living Museum’s 23-acre campus: the Wild Care Center. Opening in early fall, the 5,000-square-foot facility, which includes numerous sustainable and energy-conserving design features, is creating a window int[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: THOMAS A. BELL
Formerly chairman and CEO of Rolls-Royce North America, Bell became CEO of Fortune 500 defense, aerospace and information technology firm Leidos in May 2023, replacing the retiring Roger Krone. So far, he’s presided over some big wins, including an $823 million task order announced in late July from the Defense Information Sys[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: JOHN HELLER
2023 was quite a year for Heller and his team. Having joined the federal contractor as its CEO the previous year, Heller led Amentum as it integrated three major acquisitions, executed a strategy to become a mission modernization partner for customers and announced an agreement to merge with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions [...]
Law 2024: MONICA T. MONDAY
As chair of Gentry Locke’s executive board, which was formed in 2023, Monday leads the board’s work and oversees efforts to recruit, develop and retain legal and staff talent. Monday was named managing partner of the state’s eighth largest firm in 2013 — making her one of the first women to lead a large law […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: DELBERT PARKS
As vice president and site executive of Micron Technology Virginia, Micron’s high-tech semiconductor manufacturing facility for computer memory chips, Parks oversees more than 1,600 employees at one of Virginia’s largest exporters. And an upcoming, federally subsidized expansion will see the plant’s workforce nearly double[...]
Manufacturing 2024: FREDRIK HÖGBERG
A native of Sweden, Högberg became president of Volvo Penta North America in 2022. He joined Volvo Group in 1994 and has held a variety of positions, including in digital services, retail development and aftermarket sales. He previously was the senior vice president for digital and IT services for Mack and Volvo Trucks North Am[...]
