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Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: STEPHEN TRUNDLE
Trundle has led Tysons-based home security tech company Alarm.com since May 2003, coming aboard from its founding parent company, MicroStrategy, where he served as chief technology officer. MicroStrategy sold the spinoff security business to investors in 2009, and Alarm.com, which now has 2,000 employees, went public in 2015. Al[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: THEODORE ‘TED’ COLBERT III
Colbert was named the head of Boeing’s defense, space and security sector in 2022. Colbert restructured the defense program, but Boeing is still years behind schedule on aircraft and tanker deliveries; his unit logged nearly $1 billion in losses in 2023 alone. In January, a Boeing official said that they plan to get the un[...]
Transportation 2024: DEVON C. ANDERS
Since Anders became president of InterChange in 2000, the logistics and industrial land development company’s portfolio has grown to nearly 2 million square feet and 500-plus acres of prime industrial and commercial land. That includes 18 warehouses in the Shenandoah Valley and a cold storage facility in Mount Crawford. In[...]
Law 2024: ROBERT P. BEAMAN III
Beaman became office managing partner in Virginia Beach in May, succeeding John Ramirez, who had led the office since 2016. Ramirez is now general counsel at ADS, a Virginia Beach-based military equipment supplier. Beaman is a member of the firm’s real estate practice group. He handles commercial real estate development, commercial leasing, real estate transactions […]
Education 2024: LT. GEN. DARRELL K. WILLIAMS (U.S. ARMY, RET.)
Williams served more than 37 years in the U.S. military and in 2022 became president of Hampton University, a private, historically Black university founded in 1868 — and Williams’ alma mater. A retired Army lieutenant general, Williams was the first Black director of the Department of Defense’s Defense Logistics A[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: TOM WATSON
Watson became CEO of federal contractor Serco Inc. in September 2022, after four years as senior vice president of defense business at the North American subsidiary of British parent company Serco Group plc. He previously worked for Science Applications International Corp. for 22 years, including as senior vice president of SAIC[...]
Law 2024: JOHN P. FISHWICK JR.
One of Roanoke’s best-known attorneys, Fishwick also is a familiar face to national news viewers. A former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia nominated during the Obama administration, Fishwick regularly appears on national news outlets like MSNBC, Fox News and NBC News as a legal expert opining on current [...]
Health Care 2024: MAUREEN H. McBRIDE
Safe to say, it’s a stressful time to be the CEO of UNOS, the Richmond nonprofit that has managed the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) for more than four decades. In March, members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce — among them U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Christiansburg — launc[...]
Economic Development 2024: BARRY DuVAL
A former state secretary of commerce and trade, DuVal has led the Virginia Chamber of Commerce for 14 years, during which time the business advocacy organization has grown from around 1,000 members to more than 29,000. DuVal and the chamber recently released the Blueprint Virginia 2030 plan, a strategy for positioning the common[...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: CHRISTY S. COLEMAN
As head of the foundation administering two museums of early American history, Coleman is at the forefront of educators weaving a nuanced and inclusive story of American history. She is the first woman and the first person of color to serve as executive director of the state agency that operates Jamestown Settlement and the Amer[...]
