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Retail 2024: YOUNG CHOI
Choi was announced as the new leader of StarKist in December 2023, replacing Chae-Ung Um, who had been in the role for about a year and left to “pursue new professional opportunities,” according to a company news release. Choi starts the new position just as South Korea’s Dongwon F&B, also a subsidiary of StarKist [...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: SHAWN PURVIS
President and CEO of security and defense contractor QinetiQ US since February 2022, Purvis previously worked at Northrop Grumman, where she was enterprise services sector president and a corporate vice president. Prior to joining Northrop Grumman in 2012, Purvis worked for Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), where [...]
Banking | Finance 2024: STEPHAN Q. CASSADAY
Since Cassaday founded his Northern Virginia firm in 1993, it has grown from $40 million in assets under management to $5.5 billion. Today, Cassaday & Co. has 86 employees who work with more than 3,000 investors. The firm is ranked No. 42 on Barron’s Top 250 Private Wealth Management Teams list for 2024. A Radford [&[...]
Law 2024: THOMAS C. INGLIMA
Inglima has been at Willcox & Savage for more than a quarter of a century. In 2021, he was named managing partner of the firm. Inglima’s practice centers around mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and securities transactions, intellectual property, licensing and technology transfers, and general corporate work,[...]
Education 2024: KARL McDONNELL
Focused on primarily online learning for working adults, Strategic Education was formed in 2018 through the $2 billion merger of Strayer Education and Capella Education. The education services holding company owns for-profit Strayer and Capella universities and other entities. McDonnell previously was president and CEO of Straye[...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: ALLIE EVANGELISTA
A native of Brazil, Evangelista had 20-plus years of experience in hospitality and gaming around the United States before leaving Penn National Gaming operations to join the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol in early 2022. Hard Rock opened a temporary casino in Bristol in July 2022, with plans to open the approximately $515 m[...]
Education 2024: GORDON P. ROBERTSON
Robertson became chancellor of the private, conservative Christian university in July 2023 following the death at age 93 of his famous and controversial father, Pat Robertson, who founded the school in 1977. Gordon Robertson had succeeded his father in 2007 as president and CEO of Christian Broadcasting Network and host of its f[...]
Energy 2024: ANDRÉS R. GLUSKI
Originally from Venezuela, Gluski joined AES in 2000 and became its president and CEO in 2011. A Fortune 500 global electric utility that generates and distributes power in 15 countries, AES is one of the world’s largest electric utilities. In fiscal year 2023, AES reported $12.6 billion in revenue, with $44 billion in ass[...]
Real Estate 2024: DAN NOVACK
Novack has been president of Balfour Beatty’s building operations in the mid-Atlantic since January 2023, tasked with providing strategic oversight for construction operations in Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland and Pennsylvania. He has been with the Dallas-based contracting and management company for more than two dec[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: DAWN M. SCHAIBLE
In July, Kurt Vogel, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), retired, setting off a reshuffling that resulted in Schaible becoming acting director of Langley Research Center, which employs about 3,400 scientists, engineers, researchers and staff at its 764-acre aeronautical research [...]
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 20[...]
Health Care 2024: DR. ERIC EDWARDS
Frustrated that the United States had so many medications on the Food and Drug Administration’s drug-shortage list, Edwards partnered in 2020 with Frank Gupton, a college of engineering professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, to launch Phlow, a Richmond-based company that develops and domestically manufactures activ[...]
