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Banking | Finance 2024: CECILIA A. HODGES
Hodges has worked in the banking industry for more than 37 years. Leading the greater Washington, D.C., and Virginia regions since 2018, Hodges manages teams in more than 60 branches, and she’s also well known for her community service, including for the Washington, D.C.-area Easterseals chapter and Women Giving Back, which [...]
Retail 2024: RICK DREILING
Dreiling’s first year as Dollar Tree’s CEO has seen a continuation of some of the tumult that preceded his time leading the Fortune 500 discount retailer. The chain reported $30.6 billion in revenue in fiscal 2023, but a $1.7 billion loss in the fourth quarter. Following that poor performance, the company announced it would [...]
2024 Virginia 500: Media
JON CARPENTER CEO, COMSCORE, RESTON DOUG DAVIS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT/REGIONAL MANAGER, NEXSTAR BROADCASTING, PORTSMOUTH JOSH EASTRIGHT CEO, BLOOMBERG INDUSTRY GROUP, ARLINGTON COUNTY PAULA A. KERGER PRESIDENT AND CEO, PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE, ARLINGTON COUNTY TIMOTHY J. O’SHAUGHNESSY PRESIDENT AND CEO, GRAHAM HOLDINGS, ARLINGTON COUNTY MICHAEL STEIB […][...]
Banking | Finance 2024: TYRONE NOEL
Noel became president of Bank of America’s Hampton Roads market in September 2023, replacing Frank Castellanos, who is the Merrill market executive for the greater Washington, D.C., area. In this role, Noel leads 500 employees across eight business lines and oversees the bank’s efforts to grow “by fostering local connectio[...]
Education 2024: TROY D. PAINO
UMW had its most successful fundraising year so far in 2022-23, raising more than $21.36 million in gifts and pledges, including a portion of a $30 million bequest from a 1959 alumna to support undergraduate research and scholarships, announced in March 2023. Last year, Paino received the National Association of Student Personne[...]
Energy 2024: ROBERT DUVALL
In his second stint at the helm of Virginia Natural Gas, Duvall is responsible for delivering natural gas to more than 310,000 customers across southeastern Virginia. After earning a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Clemson University, Duvall began his career in 1984 as a distribution engineer at Atlanta Gas Light, [...]
Real Estate 2024: CHRIS MOLIVADAS
Molivadas has been in commercial real estate for more than 30 years. He previously was senior vice president at Spaulding & Slye Colliers, which was acquired by JLL in 2005, and he became JLL’s mid-Atlantic market director in 2018. Before that, he was a project manager for Clark Construction and a project director for Quad[...]
Real Estate 2024: TIMOTHY A. FAULKNER
Named CEO in 2022, Faulkner previously served as chief operating officer and president of property management for Breeden, which has about 425 employees in Virginia. Previously, Faulkner was president and COO of Lawton Lumber, and also worked for American Coating Technologies and Procter & Gamble. As Breeden’s CEO, he over[...]
Economic Development 2024: STEPHANIE LANDRUM
Landrum has led the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership since 2015. She joined the partnership nearly 20 years ago, serving as acting executive director for two years before stepping up to senior vice president. Before coming to AEDP, Landrum was a project coordinator at Southeast Fairfax Development Corp. The site of Al[...]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2024: TRAVIS STATON
The United Way of Southwest Virginia named its president and CEO, Staton, to lead Endless Opportunity, or EO, in February. EO is a new nonprofit, spun off of the United Way chapter, focused on workforce development programs. As EO’s leader, Staton manages a $10 million portfolio of grant-funded economic development, workforce [...]
Banking | Finance 2024: MARK A. FRANTZ
Co-founded by Frantz in 2009, Blue Delta is a venture capital firm that supports growth-stage companies providing technology solutions to the federal government. In April, Blue Delta announced it had invested $25 million in Maryland’s Herrick Technology Laboratories, a provider of software-defined radio (which relies on soft[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: CHRISTOPHER D. KASTNER
A graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Pepperdine University, Kastner was tapped as Huntington Ingalls Industries’ president and CEO in March 2022. HII reported revenue of $11.5 billion last year, a 7.3% increase from 2022, and a total project backlog of $43.1 billion as of Dec. 31, 2023. The Fortune 50[...]
