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Manufacturing 2024: THOMAS E. ‘TEDDY’ GOTTWALD
Gottwald joined NewMarket, parent company of Afton Chemical and Ethyl, in 1984 and worked in its petroleum additives and former plastics businesses before succeeding his father, Bruce, as chairman of the board two decades later. NewMarket traces its roots to Ethyl Gasoline Corp., a company acquired in 1962 by Albemarle Paper Man[...]
Health Care 2024: SETH BLACKLEY
Blackley founded Evolent Health in 2011 with fellow Harvard Business School alums Frank Williams and Tom Peterson with a goal of providing technology to help health systems shifting to value-based care — where payment is connected to patient outcomes. In 2015, Evolent debuted on the New York Stock Exchange, raising $195 millio[...]
Health Care 2024: MELINA DAVIS
The board of the Medical Society of Virginia (MSV), a trade organization that represents more than 30,000 physicians, physician assistants, residents and medical students, brought Davis on as its executive vice president in 2014 and made her its CEO four years later. During the Virginia General Assembly’s 2020 session, D[...]
Professional Services 2024: ALISON ROGISH
In December 2021, Rogish became the first woman to lead Big Four global accounting firm Deloitte’s Central Virginia market. Rogish joined Deloitte in 1998, specializing in human capital services for clients in the financial services industry. She became a relationship leader for several clients in the Washington, D.C., met[...]
Manufacturing 2024: KOEN KNIPPENBERG
In June, Knippenberg began his new role as Volvo’s senior vice president in North America for Group Truck Operations (GTO), a position in which he oversees four vehicle assembly plants: Volvo’s New River Valley plant in Dublin; two Mack Trucks factories in Roanoke County and Pennsylvania; and a heavy-duty truck plant[...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: CHRIS ALBRECHT
Caesars Virginia operates a temporary casino in a large tentlike structure while construction continues on the permanent $750 million facility in Danville. When completed, the property will include a 320-room hotel and a casino gaming floor with about 1,400 slot machines, roughly 80 table games and 24 electronic table games. The[...]
Real Estate 2024: KIM ROY
In 2017, Roy was appointed the first nonfamily member to lead the then-80-year-old company. Interested in building from a young age, she graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in construction. Roy joined Hitt in 1999 as an assistant project manager. Founded in 1937, Hitt has more than 1,600 employees in 14 U[...]
Manufacturing 2024: GREGORY H. TREPP
Trepp had served as president and CEO at Hamilton Beach Brands since 2017. In February, he became CEO alone, as R. Scott Tidey was appointed company president, part of the appliance manufacturer’s succession plan. Tidey previously was senior vice president of global sales at subsidiary Hamilton Beach Brands Inc. Trepp join[...]
Manufacturing 2024: JOHN M. STEITZ
In 2019, Steitz was named president and CEO of plastic films and aluminum extrusions manufacturer Tredegar, a 1989 spinoff of Richmond fuel additives company Ethyl. Steitz had served on Tredegar’s board of directors since 2017 while also serving as CEO of polymer additives supplier Addivant, which merged with SI Group in 2[...]
Manufacturing 2024: JON MOORE
Since 2019, Moore has served as president and CEO of tobacco products manufacturer Philip Morris USA, maker of Marlboro cigarettes. He has worked under parent company Altria Group since 2003, serving as vice president of its heated tobacco products division and director of marketing for NuMark, Altria’s early e-vapor subsi[...]
Retail 2024: MICHAEL SEVER
Sever, a longtime Hershey employee, was named plant manager of the candymaker’s Stuarts Draft manufacturing facility in 2022. He had previously been site operations leader at the facility, which produces nut-based candies like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Almond Joy. The plant, which opened in 1982, is the second l[...]
Transportation 2024: WILLIAM E. ‘BILL’ WOODHOUR
A University of Delaware alumnus, Woodhour has devoted 32 years to Maersk Line, rising to president and CEO in 2016. Headquartered in Virginia with offices in Norfolk and Dulles, Maersk is the U.S. arm of Danish shipping giant A.P. Møller-Mærsk and has the largest U.S. flag fleet in commercial service. The company was in the [[...]
