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Real Estate 2024: TERRIE L. SUIT
Suit has led Virginia’s largest trade association, Virginia Realtors, since 2013. Her career in real estate began in 1985 and later transitioned into a 20-year career in mortgage lending. In 1996, Suit received a gubernatorial appointment to the Virginia Real Estate Board, and from 2000 to 2008 she served in the Virginia H[...]
Law 2024: MELANIE D. WILSON
A former assistant U.S. attorney and University of Tennessee law dean, Wilson was inducted as president of the Association of American Law Schools in January. In her inaugural address, Wilson said law school academics will continue to accomplish ambitious goals, “provided we pursue our aims tenaciously and bravely with an open[...]
Real Estate 2024: ROBB ‘R.J.’ JOHNSON
With more than 30 years in the commercial real estate industry, Johnson started working for The Staubach Co. in 1995, ultimately serving as president for the mid-Atlantic region until the firm merged with JLL in 2008. A Fortune Global 500 commercial real estate and investment management company, JLL helps clients buy, build, o[...]
Real Estate 2024: BRETT HITT
Hitt Contracting, one of Virginia’s biggest general contracting firms, was started by Hitt’s grandparents in 1930. In 1984, Hitt joined his family’s company as an assistant project manager. He rose through the ranks to become co-president in 2005, and was named co-chairman of the newly formed board in 2017, ush[...]
Living Legends 2024: Y. MICHELE KANG
Kang is known primarily as the founder and former CEO of Cognosante, which provides IT support to federal, state and local government agencies in public health; founder of Cognosante Ventures, an early-stage health IT startup investor; and the Cognosante Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes workforce access and opportunity for [...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: MATT CALKINS
A top economics graduate at Dartmouth and a world champion board gamer, Calkins co-founded cloud computing and enterprise software firm Appian in his basement in 1999. It grew to become the most successful software IPO of 2017. In 2023, Appian reaped $304.5 million in cloud subscription revenue, up 29% compared with 2022. The co[...]
Banking | Finance 2024: THOMAS I. BARKIN
Barkin has served as head of one of 12 regional Fed banks since 2018. He’s also a voting member on the Fed’s interest-setting Federal Open Market Committee for 2024, holding one of four rotating seats on the committee. In June, Barkin told a gathering of the Richmond chapter of the Risk Management Association that th[...]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2024: SORAYA CORREA
Correa assumed the positions of president and CEO of the National Industries for the Blind at the end of April. She replaced Kevin Lynch, who held the roles for 15 years before retiring from the nation’s largest employment resource for people who are blind or visually impaired. Lynch spent 44 years with the NIB and [&helli[...]
Agriculture 2024: DAVID GUM
National Fruit Product Co., which sells apple products east of the Mississippi mostly under the White House Foods label, has been family owned since 1908. Gum started working at the company in 1981 at age 20 in an entry-level accounting position. He purchased it from its founding family in 2006. The Gum family also owns [&hellip[...]
Law 2024: CAMERON ROUNTREE
Promoted in 2022 to become head of the Virginia State Bar, Rountree leads a team of more than 90 employees who are responsible for the licensing of the state’s 50,000 lawyers. The bar is the administrative agency for the Supreme Court of Virginia, and it disciplines attorneys who violate the court’s rules of professi[...]
Professional Services 2024: HORACIO D. ROZANSKI
Born in Argentina, Rozanski joined Fortune 500 global management, technology, engineering and consulting firm Booz Allen in 1991 as an intern in Buenos Aires. In 2015, Rozanski was named president and CEO after holding other leadership positions, including chief operating officer, chief strategy and talent officer, and chief per[...]
Education 2024: REAR ADM. WILLIAM G. KELLY (U.S. COAST GUARD, RET.)
After nearly four decades of service in the U.S. Coast Guard, Kelly became the sixth president of CNU in July 2023. Founded in 1960 as Christopher Newport College, a two-year branch of William & Mary, CNU is now a four-year public university that enrolls some 5,000 students in the liberal arts and sciences. Kelly previously [...]
