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Virginia 500 Spotlight June 2024: J.D. MYERS II
HOW I CHOSE MY CAREER: I believe that when you discover your purpose, and have the courage to persuade it, the path to your career goals and aspirations will be clearly defined. Work no longer feels like work but feels like you’re doing what you were put here to do. HOW I BALANCE WORK AND […]
Virginia 500 Spotlight: ERIK H. NEIL
FIRST JOB: Busboy at Washington Golf & Country Club in Arlington HOBBY/PASSION: Traveling, especially to Italy HISTORIC PERSON I WISH I COULD MEET: [Chrysler Corp. founder] Walter Chrysler, who created this great collection and gave it to the people FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM: Princeton Tigers basketball RECENT BOOK READ: “Stay [...]
Virginia 500 Spotlight: TERRIE L. SUIT
FIRST JOB: Baskin-Robbins ice cream scooper HOBBY/PASSION: Cooking and gardening. A good fiction novel while sitting by the lake on a breezy sunny afternoon. MOST VALUED POSSESSION: My home TRAIT I ADMIRE: Attentiveness — being able to really pay attention to the person they are talking with in the moment and to give them thei[...]
Virginia 500 Spotlight: CLAYTON TURNER
FIRST JOB: Stock boy at Sears WHAT MAKES ME HAPPIEST: Family and NASA MY MOST VALUED POSSESSION: Joy HOW I BALANCE MY WORK AND PERSONAL LIVES: By being fully present in both for all activities and interactions and not allowing artificial urgency to encroach from one to the other TRAIT I MOST ADMIRE IN OTHERS: […]
Virginia 500 Spotlight: PAT DAVIS-HAGENS
WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO ME: My very first head nurse, whom I quote to this day, Mary Grace Penney, instilled in me the value of patient-centeredness and teamwork, with high levels of accountability to your team and patients. WHAT MAKES ME HAPPIEST: I love that I have been able to remain patient-focused throughout my entire career.[...]
Virginia 500 Spotlight: VICTOR O. CARDWELL
PERSONAL MOTTO: Every day is a new opportunity to do something good and to help someone succeed. FIRST JOB: I worked at a fast-food restaurant for about three days in high school. They wanted me to shave my baby-hair mustache, but my parents would not let me. They thought it was too soon for me […]
Virginia 500 spotlight: WILLIAM G. “BILL” CRUTCHFIELD JR.
PERSONAL MOTTO: Believing that a glass is half-full MOST VALUED POSSESSION: My family HOW I UNWIND FROM WORK: I rarely do. That’s a problem. HOW I CHOSE MY CAREER PATH: I followed my passions — entrepreneurship and consumer electronics. HOBBY/PASSION: Flying airplanes, operating my boat, repairing my classic cars, installing[...]
October 2023 Virginia 500 Spotlight: NEIL HOUFF
FIRST JOB: Feeding calves on the family farm MOST VALUED POSSESSION: My faith in Jesus. All else will be gone at some point. HOW I UNWIND FROM WORK: Mowing the lawn or mowing pastures on our farm HOW I BALANCE MY WORK AND PERSONAL LIFE: My work and personal life have always been intermingled and […]
Real Estate 2023: JON PETERSON
Founded in 1965 by Peterson’s late father, Milt, Peterson Cos. is responsible for some of the most prominent and successful mixed-use retail, residential and office developments in Northern Virginia and Maryland, including Fairfax Corner, Fair Lakes, National Harbor, Burke Centre and Tysons McLean Office Park. In 2021, the com[...]
Finance | Insurance 2023: JEFF WRIGHT
Well into his second year as CEO of the German travel insurance and assistance company’s U.S. subsidiary, Wright carries with him a “love for extreme technical financial concepts” that led him to choose a career in the insurance industry. Wright earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond and his MBA at [...]
Government | Politics 2023: WINSOME EARLE-SEARS
Earle-Sears wanted to be a lawyer, but after being accepted to law school, she had a change of heart, she says, and then “life got in the way.” Instead, she served in the U.S. Marine Corps, was elected to a term in the House of Delegates, managed a homeless shelter and spent a decade as […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JIM BRINKER
Brinker runs Intel’s Fairfax-based federal contracting arm, overseeing strategy, business development, sales, contracts, program management and engineering. A University of Florida graduate, Brinker joined Intel in 2015 as director of extreme scale computing, and was promoted to his current position in 2019. Before that, he wa[...]
