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Virginia 500

Aug 30, 2023

Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: JACK WOODFIN

For Woodfin, heating and cooling is a family affair: His parents, John and Anne, started Woodfin Heating in 1977 to sell heating oil, growing it into one of the largest privately held HVAC-related businesses in Virginia. A Virginia Military Institute and University of Virginia Darden School of Business alum, Woodfin began workin[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: POUL WEIHRAUCH

Since taking over the reins at the candy and pet food giant in September 2022, Weihrauch has set a goal of doubling its sales by 2033. With $45 billion in sales in 2022, Mars is the largest privately held company in Virginia and the fourth largest in the nation. It has approximately 140,000 employees in […]

Aug 30, 2023

Real Estate 2023: TERRIE L. SUIT

When Suit started her career, she worked for a builder, then became a Realtor and later a mortgage loan officer. Today, after serving as the state’s first secretary of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, as well as a Republican state delegate for eight years, Suit now leads Virginia’s largest trade association. She advoc[...]

Aug 30, 2023

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[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Economic Development 2023: ROBERT J. ‘BOB’ STOLLE

Editor’s note: Stolle announced his resignation on Aug. 31, after publication of the Virginia 500. A former state secretary of commerce and trade under Gov. George Allen, Stolle brings years of experience in economic development and public policy to his role leading VIPC. Formerly the Center for Innovative Technology, VIPC is [...]

Aug 30, 2023

Hospitality | Tourism 2023: CLIFFORD B. ‘CLIFF’ FLEET

A corporate executive and college professor, Fleet became the ninth president of the world’s largest living history museum in 2020. He is charged with sharing America’s enduring story with new and diverse audiences, while improving its financial health. Before joining the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Fleet served as CEO[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Energy 2023: ROBERT DUVALL

As president of VNG for the second time, Duvall is responsible for the delivery of natural gas to more than 310,000 customers in southeastern Virginia. A civil engineering graduate of Clemson University, Duvall started his career in 1984 as a distribution engineer at Atlanta Gas Light, a subsidiary of Southern Company Gas, VNG�[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Finance | Insurance 2023: JOSEPH W. ‘JOE’ MONTGOMERY

It’s coming up on Montgomery’s 50th anniversary of working at Optimal Service Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, a wealth management firm with about $28 billion in funds under advisement. A former All-American captain of William & Mary’s football team, Montgomery was inducted this year into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: JAMES GRAMM

In 1983, barely five years after graduating from high school in Alexandria, Gramm sold two new cars on his first day as a sales rep at a dealership in Vienna. “The retail automobile business,” he says, “has been in my blood ever since.” Gramm worked in car sales in Virginia and Maryland, rising to vice […]

Aug 30, 2023

Education 2023: GORDON P. ROBERTSON

In addition to succeeding his famous and controversial late father, the evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson, as president and CEO of the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network and host of its flagship weekday news magazine show, “The 700 Club,” Robertson became Regent’s chancellor in July. Pat Robertson[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Health Care 2023: DR. MARLON LEVY 

Levy was appointed to lead the VCU Health System last year on an interim basis, having served as chief medical officer of the VCU Medical Center and director of the Hume-Lee Transplant Center. He replaced Dr. Art Kellermann, who resigned in November 2022.  In the past year, VCU Health’s Massey Cancer Center was designated a [[...]

Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: THEODORE ‘TED’ COLBERT III

Recent years have been brutal for Boeing, which has dealt with supply-chain disruptions and delays in its defense programs. Named head of the world’s fifth largest defense contractor’s defense, space and security division in 2022, Colbert said in June at the Paris Air Show that he expected second quarter 2023 losses similar [...]

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