Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JENNIFER CHRONIS
Chronis came aboard VMware in 2022 as vice president in charge of public sector business. A former Army paratrooper with 45 jumps under her belt, Chronis spent 21 years in the military, serving in Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm and retiring as a lieutenant colonel. After that, she went to work for IBM, managing its Army [[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: DeETTE GRAY
A former executive at Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems, Gray worked as a math and science middle school teacher after graduating from North Carolina State University and East Carolina University in the 1990s. Her interest in coding led her into the IT field, and she became a software developer. Over the past decade, she’s won [[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: CHRISTOPHER D. KASTNER
Kastner has now completed his first year as head of the nation’s largest military shipbuilding company, Huntington Ingalls Industries, which owns Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia’s largest industrial employer. He was tapped as HII’s president and CEO in March 2022, after previously serving as chief operating officer and[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: MIKE SALVINO
Since 2019, Salvino has led Fortune 500 IT contractor DXC as its CEO, and he became its board chairman last year. DXC, which employs 133,000 people worldwide, has experienced declining revenue over the past few years. In fiscal year 2023, it reported $14.4 billion in revenue, down from $16.3 billion in 2022 and $17.73 billion [&[...]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2023: DEBORAH M. DiCROCE
A passion for higher education and the desire to help build a thriving community with opportunities for all is what drives DiCroce’s continued success at the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. The foundation’s role as the region’s largest grant and scholarship provider continues to grow under her direction, topping $20 mi[...]
Manufacturing 2023: KOEN KNIPPENBERG
A longtime Volvo Group employee, Knippenberg moved from his home country of Belgium to become vice president and general manager of the New River Valley Volvo Trucks plant in April 2022. Before that, he was vice president for the company’s plant in Ghent, Belgium, as well as managing director for Volvo Group Belgium for five [[...]
Manufacturing 2023: BRADFORD ‘BRAD’ BEAUCHAMP
Even early in life, Beauchamp was a businessman: He and his brother earned money by fishing balls out of the ponds and woods by a golf course, cleaning them up and selling them back to golfers. With such a business mindset, it’s no wonder he rose to Carpenter’s top leader, a role he’s held since […]
2023 Virginia 500: Finance | Insurance
John C. Asbury CEO, ATLANTIC UNION BANKSHARES, RICHMOND G. Robert Aston Jr. EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, TOWNEBANK, SUFFOLK Vikram “Vik” Atal PRESIDENT AND CEO, PRA GROUP, NORFOLK Thomas I. Barkin PRESIDENT AND CEO, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF RICHMOND, RICHMOND Jeff Bentley PRESIDENT AND CEO, NORTHWEST FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, HERNDON […][...]
Finance | Insurance 2023: PAUL B. MANNING
Known for their philanthropy, Manning and his wife, Diane, donated $100 million in January to the University of Virginia to create the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology, which will focus on research into new medical treatments like cellular and gene therapies, nanotechnology and immunotherapy. Manning has said he[...]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: CHAE-UNG UM
In January, Um became CEO of StarKist, the packaged tuna and chicken company that moved its headquarters to Northern Virginia last year from Pittsburgh. Owned by Dongwon Industries, a South Korean seafood company, StarKist has 4,000 employees globally and revenue of $210 million. Having joined StarKist in November 2022, Um repla[...]
Real Estate 2023: LOUIS J. ROGERS
Since Rogers founded Capital Square in 2012, the real estate investment company has completed more than $7.5 billion in transaction volume and grew from handling mainly Delaware Statutory Trust 1031 Exchange offerings to launching a real estate investment trust and developing and operating multifamily properties across the natio[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: RYAN ANGOLD
Angold, a former Navy SEAL who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, wore one of ADS’ wetsuits when he was deployed on missions. In 2005, Angold left the Navy and joined Blackbird Technologies, a solutions provider for the intelligence community that became part of Raytheon Technologies (now RTX). He joined ADS in 2010 as Nav[...]