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2024 Virginia 500: Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage
ROBERT A. ‘BOB’ ARCHER CHAIRMAN, BLUE RIDGE BEVERAGE, SALEM ELIZABETH ‘LIZA’ MYERS BORCHES PRESIDENT AND CEO, CARTER MYERS AUTOMOTIVE, CHARLOTTESVILLE YOUNG CHOI PRESIDENT AND CEO, STARKIST, RESTON REID A. BROWN PRESIDENT, BROWN DISTRIBUTING, RICHMOND MICHAEL DAVIS CEO AND PRESIDENT, CORT BUSINESS SERVICES, CHANTILLY RICK DREILING CHAIRMAN AND […][...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: MICHAEL GEORGE
A 40-year hospitality industry veteran, George founded Crescent Hotels & Resorts in 2001. The company operates more than 100 hotels and resorts in the U.S and Canada. Its hotel portfolio includes Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt brands, along with the Latitudes: Lifestyles by Crescent collection of independent hotels and resorts. [...]
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[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
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[...]
Law 2024: MARGARET F. HARDY
Hardy became the first female president in Sands Anderson’s then-175-year-old history in 2017. The trajectory that took her to the top at the state’s ninth largest firm has been far from a straight line. A graduate of Johnston-Willis Hospital School of Nursing, Hardy worked as a registered nurse for 15 years, including a sti[...]
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[...]
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[...]
