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Government | Politics 2024: WINSOME EARLE-SEARS
Earle-Sears is a woman of firsts: the first Black woman and immigrant to hold statewide office in Virginia and the commonwealth’s first female lieutenant governor, serving as president of the state Senate and occasionally casting tiebreaking votes. She is widely expected to seek the Republican nomination for governor in 2025. [...]
Retail 2024: MICHAEL DAVIS
In January, Davis stepped into the role of CEO at Cort Business Services, a Berkshire Hathaway-owned company that includes Cort Furniture Rental, Cort Trade Show and Events, and other businesses. He succeeded Jeffery Pederson, who retired after having led the company since 2012. Cort has more than 100 offices, rental showrooms [...]
Education 2024: DAVID DORÉ
When Doré arrived in Richmond in April 2023 to become the 10th chancellor of the Virginia Community College System, he began his tenure by traveling 3,600 miles in 36 days on a listening tour across the state. As head of the state’s community college system, Doré oversees 23 colleges with 40 campuses and more than […]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2024: LAWRENCE A. ‘LARRY’ SELZER
Selzer has led The Conservation Fund since 2001, helping to protect vital lands and waters in the United States to provide greater access to nature, strengthen local economies and enhance climate resiliency. The only environmental group in the country chartered for both conservation and economic development, it has protected mor[...]
Education 2024: JAVAUNE ADAMS-GASTON
Under Adams-Gaston’s leadership since 2019, Norfolk State has racked up achievements ranging from regularly ranking among U.S. News & World Report’s top 20 historically Black colleges and universities to attaining a 10-year reaffirmation of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on[...]
Retail 2024: ROBERT PETERSON
Rosenthal Automotive has been a family affair since its beginning in 1954, when the late Robert Rosenthal and his father opened an Arlington County Chevy dealership. During the next six decades, Rosenthal grew the business into a $1 billion company with 16 dealerships at 13 locations across the Washington, D.C., metro area. Upon Rosenthal’s retirement […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: JOHN HENEGHAN
The leader of ECS Federal, ASGN’s federal consulting subsidiary, since 2022, Heneghan was an English teacher before turning to tech. He previously served as ECS’ chief operating officer and held executive roles at Stanley Associates and CGI Federal. In fiscal 2023, ASGN earned $4.45 billion in revenue, down 2.8% from the pre[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: STEPHANIE MANGO
Mango took the helm of CGI Federal, the U.S. arm of Montreal-based IT and professional service consultancy CGI, in 2021. She joined CGI in 2004 when it purchased her former employer, American Management Systems. She was promoted to senior vice president in 2015. Last year, CGI implemented Momentum, its financial and acquisition [...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: LINDSAY BERRY WINTER
A Hampton Roads native, Winter is the head of public policy in Virginia for Amazon, overseeing the e-commerce giant’s economic and community investments in Virginia, where it has its East Coast HQ2 headquarters in Arlington County. Since 2010, Amazon has reportedly invested more than $109 billion in Virginia through cloud infr[...]
Government | Politics 2024: CHRIS LaCIVITA
Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Chesterfield County, Republican power player LaCivita is a former Marine, a Purple Heart recipient and one of a handful of insiders who has former President Donald Trump’s ear. LaCivita got his start as a GOP political strategist in the 1990s, working on George Allen’s successful congressio[...]
Real Estate 2024: MAGGIE REED
In April 2022, Gilbane Building tapped Reed to lead the business unit for its Richmond office. One of the construction company’s youngest vice presidents, she has managed over $1 billion in contracts during her career. She is responsible for driving sales and supervising more than 70 employees. In July, the Richmond Flying Squ[...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: ROY CORBY
Rivers Casino Portsmouth made history in January 2023, becoming the first permanent casino to open in Virginia. The 250,000-square-foot, $340 million casino created 1,300 permanent jobs locally. It had almost $250 million in gaming revenue in its first year of operation, generating an estimated $42 million in state and local tax[...]
