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2024 Virginia 500: Transportation
DEVON C. ANDERS PRESIDENT, INTERCHANGE GROUP, MOUNT CRAWFORD MONICA BACKMON CEO, NORTHERN VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, FAIRFAX COUNTY RYAN BANAS ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND HRBT EXPANSION PROJECT DIRECTOR, HNTB, NORFOLK JUDY BARRETT PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA MARITIME ASSOCIATION; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, TOWNEBANK, NORFOLK P. DALE BENNETT PRESIDENT AND CEO, VIRGINIA […][...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2024: ALEX NYERGES
Nyerges is now in his 18th year as director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, one of the nation’s top 10 comprehensive art museums. Free to all visitors, the museum opened in 1936 and has more than 545,000 square feet of galleries, event space and dining. In the works is a 170,000-square-foot, $190 million […]
Real Estate 2024: ALLISON WEINSTEIN
Weinstein leads a multifamily real estate development and management company founded by her father, Marcus Weinstein, in 1952. She joined the company in 1994 with her husband, Ivan Jecklin, who serves as co-president. Weinstein Properties began as a developer of single-family homes in Richmond in the 1950s, expanding into apartm[...]
Professional Services 2024: JOHNNY C. TAYLOR JR.
The Society for Human Resource Management’s leader since 2017, Taylor is a lawyer and human resources executive in charge of an association that represents nearly 340,000 member HR professionals in 180 countries. Named one of the “300 Most Influential Executives in Corporate America” for 2024 by African American business a[...]
Professional Services 2024: JULIE SWEET
CEO of Fortune Global 500 firm Accenture since 2019 and its chair since 2021, Sweet has been on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business list since 2016 — ranking No. 2 for 2022 and 2023 — and was named one of Time’s Time100: The Most Influential People of 2024. She also made Forbes’ 2023 list […]
Living Legends 2024: LOUIS ‘LOU’ HADDAD
In the past 40 years, Haddad has spent his career building and shaping the Armada Hoffler construction and development company founded in 1979. In 1985, he started his career there as an on-site construction superintendent, quickly moving up to president of the firm’s construction arm. Nine years later, before he’d even turn[...]
Banking | Finance 2024: LAWRENCE ‘LARRY’ BERNERT III
After Clearstead Advisors, an Ohio-based financial advisory firm, acquired the assets of Norfolk-based Wilbanks Smith & Thomas Asset Management in April, Bernert’s job evolved from principal and portfolio manager to senior managing director for Clearstead Advisory Solutions, which is a division of Clearstead. Previously,[...]
Law 2024: BRADLEY J. LINGO
In the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-25 ranking of the nation’s best law schools, Regent University ranked No. 108 — rising 17 places from the previous year. Part of the private conservative Christian university founded by the late televangelist and cable TV magnate Pat Robertson, Regent’s law school prioritizes �[...]
Real Estate 2024: W. TAYLOR FRANKLIN
Franklin became CEO in 2023, succeeding his father, Wendell, who is now chairman of the real estate development, management and investment firm. Previously chief operating officer, Franklin oversees approximately 700 employees, as well as a portfolio of 200 properties in 10 states and Washington, D.C. In 2013, Franklin, his fath[...]
Banking | Finance 2024: JAMES SCHENCK
Over the course of his military career, Schenck flew Black Hawk helicopters in Korea and trained others as a night vision goggle instructor pilot. He also served on the Army staff in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, a post with responsibilities for overseeing the flying hour program, which [&hell[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: TONI TOWNES-WHITLEY
In October 2023, Townes-Whitley took the reins of federal contractor SAIC, becoming one of two Black female Fortune 500 CEOs and leading a company with fiscal 2023 revenue of $7.7 billion. She told USA Today that she wanted people to move beyond focusing on a CEO’s race and gender, but added, “If there is a […]
Retail 2024: WARREN THOMPSON
Thompson’s start as an entrepreneur came as a teen, when he purchased and ran his family’s hog farm in Windsor. He now heads the largest minority-owned food and facilities management corporation in the nation, which he founded in 1992 with the purchase of 31 Bob’s Big Boy restaurants. Thompson Hospitality provides dining s[...]
