Real Estate 2024: MILES LEON
As leader of one of the largest real estate development companies in the Southeastern United States, Leon is responsible for all company operations and new business development. Founded in 1906, the firm has a property management portfolio exceeding 30,000 multifamily units. Among other deals, the company is handling Texas con[...]
Real Estate 2024: BYRON L. BOSTON
Dynex Capital, a real estate investment trust, reported about $6.37 billion in total assets at the end of last year, compared with about $3.61 billion in 2022, with a strong fourth quarter capping a volatile year for REITs because of inflation and high interest rates. A St. Louis native, Boston joined Dynex in 2008 as […]
Retail 2024: GEOFFREY POHANKA
Pohanka’s family has been selling cars since Frank Pohanka opened a Washington, D.C., dealership in 1919. Today, the family’s business, headed by Frank’s grandson Geoffrey, has 20 locations in Virginia, Maryland and Texas, and is the third largest Virginia-based auto dealership. It had revenue of $1.8 billion a[...]
Media 2024: JOSH EASTRIGHT
In 2018, Eastright was named CEO at Bloomberg Industry Group, a Bloomberg affiliate company. His career at Bloomberg had begun more than 25 years earlier, when he was a college intern. He worked for Bloomberg LP, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg Government before becoming Industry Group CEO. Eastright received his bach[...]
Health Care 2024: STEVE ARNER
In July, just a little over a year after he was promoted to president of Carilion Clinic, Arner was tapped to succeed Nancy Howell Agee as the Roanoke-based health system’s CEO, effective Oct. 1. Agee, who is retiring and will take the title of CEO emeritus, had led the $2.4 billion not-for-profit health system since [&hel[...]
Real Estate 2024: BOB CLARK
A childhood passion for taking things apart, putting them back together and figuring out how they worked led Clark to Virginia Military Institute for a degree in mechanical engineering. With an MBA from William & Mary, Clark started as a mechanical engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding and served as an Air Force officer for [...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: JOHN USTICA
Before being named president and CEO in October 2022 of Siemens Government Technologies, the U.S. contracting arm of German tech conglomerate Siemens, Ustica served as its senior vice president and chief financial officer. Now, he oversees a government contracting firm focused on securing and modernizing technology infrastructur[...]
Retail 2024: WILLIAM W. ‘BILL’ LOVETTE
Lovette has been CEO of Sauer Brands since January 2023, his second time in the position; he served as executive chairman and interim CEO in 2019, when Charlotte, North Carolina-based Falfurrias Capital Group purchased the Richmond-based family-owned spice company C.F. Sauer. With more than 1,000 employees, the renamed Sauer Bra[...]
Retail 2024: CHARLES E. TYSON
Tyson has headed up the flooring company formerly known as Lumber Liquidators since 2020, the year after LL Flooring agreed to pay $33 million to settle federal securities fraud charges. He joined the company in 2018 as chief customer experience officer after spending nine years at Advance Auto Parts. Prospects looked bright ear[...]
Real Estate 2024: WHITSON HUFFMAN
At Capital Square, a fast-growing real estate investment fund sponsor and commercial real estate development company established in 2012, Huffman became co-CEO in 2022. The son-in-law of founder and co-CEO Louis J. Rogers, Huffman joined Capital Square in 2018 and was previously chief strategy and investment officer, leading rea[...]
Insurance 2024: THOMAS J. McINERNEY
McInerney has led Genworth Financial, which offers mortgage and long-term care insurance products, since 2013. Genworth posted 2023 revenue of about $7.5 billion, flat from the previous year. Enact, Genworth’s private mortgage insurance subsidiary, had what McInerney described as an “outstanding year,” delivering an ad[...]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2024: M. SANJAYAN
Time magazine named Sanjayan to its inaugural Time100 Climate list in November 2023, recognizing the climate scientist and nonprofit executive as one of the most innovative leaders driving businesses to act on climate change. The magazine praised his skills as a science communicator who has helped Conservation International form[...]