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Banking | Finance 2024: LAWRENCE ‘LARRY’ DI RITA
Di Rita has led the greater Washington D.C., market for Bank of America since 2019. He’s also the bank’s head of global public policy. Di Rita joined the bank as an external affairs executive in 2006 after previously making a name for himself in the U.S. Navy and the federal government. From 1980 until 1993, […]
Professional Services 2024: THOMAS L. MILBURN
Last October, Milburn was tapped as the new CEO for YHB, the accounting services firm where he began his career in 1997. Each YHB CEO serves a five-year term, and Milburn succeeds C. Scott Moulden, under whose leadership the firm acquired five accounting firms and grew to 300-plus employees, expanding into Maryland and developin[...]
Economic Development 2024: JASON EL KOUBI
As VEDP’s leader since 2022, El Koubi oversees numerous initiatives designed to attract outside companies to locate in the commonwealth and to help Virginia businesses expand operations. He’s also responsible for growing economic awareness of Virginia globally, as evidenced by the Virginia trade office in Taiwan that VEDP op[...]
Real Estate 2024: CHRIS CLEMENTE
Clemente is the son-in-law of NVR founder Dwight Schar, who is a co-owner of Comstock Holdings and Comstock Partners with Clemente. Founded in 1985, the privately held Comstock is among the mid-Atlantic’s largest developers of mixed-use and transit-oriented developments. Comstock’s 2023 revenue was $44.7 million, with a mana[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: JILL SINGER
In September 2023, Singer began her new role as AT&T’s vice president of federal solutions. In this role, Singer works to advance the adoption of 5G capabilities and promote network modernization efforts to support government missions. This effort includes everything from helping first responders communicate during disaste[...]
Economic Development 2024: ANTHONY J. ROMANELLO
Henrico County is poised to be home to a large technology campus on more than 600 acres not far from the Richmond Airport, after the Board of Supervisors greenlit in May a request for rezoning from developer Hourigan. The project could eventually be home to multiple data centers and light manufacturing facilities. The developmen[...]
Banking | Finance 2024: THEODORE L. ‘TED’ CHANDLER JR.
Chandler has decades of business and legal experience to share with entrepreneurs as one of NRV’s founders. In 2011, he co-founded the startup investing firm — then known as New Richmond Ventures — with fellow Richmond business leaders Jim Ukrop and Bob Mooney. Today, the firm financially contributes to the Farmer Focus o[...]
Economic Development 2024: DOUG SMITH
In the first few months of 2024, freight business Total Quality Logistics announced it would open a new location in Norfolk, and Australian company Quality Maritime Surveyors said it was expanding to the Hampton Roads area. The announcements continue momentum from 2023, when the Hampton Roads Alliance’s 13 new project announce[...]
Economic Development 2024: NANCY GRDEN
A longtime economic development and maritime leader in Hampton Roads, Grden was key in overseeing the 2023 merger of Reinvent Hampton Roads and the Hampton Roads Business Roundtable, resulting in the creation of the Hampton Roads Executive Roundtable, which she now leads. Previously, she was director of the Hampton Roads Maritim[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: RAUL FERNANDEZ
In February, Fernandez was named president and CEO of Fortune 500 IT services and consulting company DXC Technology after serving in an interim capacity since December 2023 and on the company’s board of directors since 2020. He succeeded Mike Salvino following three years of declining revenues. Headquartered in Ashburn, DXC ha[...]
Manufacturing 2024: G. DAVID OAKLEY JR.
Serving as president of Strongwell, Oakley joined the company in 2011, when its president for nearly 40 years and majority stockholder, John Tickle, transitioned to chairman of the board. Oakley previously served as president of Abingdon’s HAPCO Pole Products for nearly four years, and before that, was its vice president of pr[...]
Manufacturing 2024: BRIAN D. PALIOTTI
Paliotti was named president of Afton Chemical in January 2023, succeeding Gina Harm, who retired at the end of 2022. The Richmond-based subsidiary of NewMarket produces and sells petroleum additives. Before assuming his role at its subsidiary, Paliotti had been with NewMarket since 2008, most recently as its vice president and [...]
