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Banking | Finance 2024: GWEN FAW
In April, Faw, who has worked at Wells Fargo for close to three decades, was named the regional executive for the greater Virginia market, a territory that spans from Virginia Beach to Bristol. She replaced Janet M. Tope, who worked at Wells Fargo for more than 35 years before retiring this spring. Faw, who lives […[...]
Transportation 2024: CHARLES W. McDANIEL
McDaniel is Hilldrup’s fourth president since the Fredericksburg-based moving, storage and logistics company was founded in 1903. The McDaniel family has owned the company since 1940. McDaniel also chairs the board for UniGroup, the Missouri-based parent company of United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit. McDaniel has grown the[...]
Real Estate 2024: CARL L. HARDEE
Hardee has been with Lawson Cos. for more than half of its 52-year tenure, and he became president and CEO in 2016. He oversees a 190-employee real estate company specializing in the development, construction and management of affordable, low-income and market-rate multifamily housing communities. Although the company got its st[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: WILLIAM H. ‘BILL’ DEAN
In August 2023, Dean opened the doors to a new, 168,000-square-foot building on his company’s manufacturing campus in Caroline County, completing a five-year, $63 million phase three expansion that created more than 500 jobs in Virginia. It’s just the latest development for Dean, who grew the relatively small business that h[...]
Health Care 2024: DR. K. CRAIG KENT
Since joining UVA Health in 2020, Kent, a vascular surgeon who grew up in Nevada, has overseen significant expansion of the integrated health system. With University of Virginia President Jim Ryan, Kent helped establish the $350 million Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology, which broke ground in late 2023. Recognizi[...]
Education 2024: MARCIA CONSTON
Conston became TCC’s sixth president in January 2020, just before the pandemic. Laser-focused on ensuring student success despite the daunting challenge, she guided the college forward with a strategic plan — Innovate 2026 — and a vision “to be the community’s first choice for education, opportunity, partnership and i[...]
Health Care 2024: DR. MARLON LEVY
Levy has held his interim posts for nearly two years since Virginia Commonwealth University leadership pushed Dr. Art Kellermann to resign. Kellermann’s November 2022 exit came shortly before news broke in 2023 that VCU Health had paid approximately $73 million to back out of a $325 million development project that Kellermann [...]
Real Estate 2024: MARK DAVID EIN
Founded in 1972, Kastle Systems is a building and security systems provider that employs 700 people, including more than 100 Virginians. An investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Ein also is a minority owner of the Washington Commanders as of 2023. Ein is founder and owner of MDE Sports, which owns the Mubadala Citi DC Open [...]
Real Estate 2024: SHAWN TIBBETTS
Tibbetts added the role of president to his chief operating officer position in February, when Armada Hoffler also announced it expects to appoint him as CEO in spring 2025 upon current CEO Louis Haddad’s retirement. Haddad will then serve as executive chairman for a year. A real estate investment trust that operates across se[...]
Transportation 500: NISSIM YOCHAI
Yochai was tapped as Zim American’s president in October 2022. The U.S. company, a subsidiary of Israeli cargo shipping company Zim Integrated Shipping Services, moved to the Hampton Roads region in 2001, and last year announced it was investing $30 million to relocate and expand its U.S. headquarters, which moved from Norfolk[...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: THOMAS J. BALTIMORE JR.
After completing major renovation projects at several properties in 2023, Park Hotels & Resorts reported higher first-quarter 2024 revenue per available room and occupancy compared to the same period in 2023. The company reported almost $2.69 billion in 2023 revenues, up from $2.5 billion in 2022. Park Hotels & Resorts a[...]
Law 2024: COURTNEY MOATES PAULK
Paulk has led Hirschler since 2018, when she became the first female president of the now-78-year-old firm, which has more than 90 attorneys in offices in Fredericksburg, Richmond and Tysons, and is the state’s seventh largest law firm. Paulk also heads Hirschler’s litigation section. After graduating from Mary Washington [...]
