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Finance | Insurance 2023: FRANK LUCIA
Since 2017, Lucia has led Delta Dental of Virginia, one of the state’s largest dental benefits carriers, with about 350 employees and $766 million in revenue, and its holding company, Corvesta. Previously, he was president and CEO of Dean Health Plan and worked in finance for Cigna and WR Grace. Lucia has been involved wit[...]
Transportation 2023: SHEPPARD ‘SHEP’ MILLER III
A Norfolk native, Miller takes pride in the state’s transportation accomplishments, including the start this year of the Interstate 64 Gap Project, which will widen a 29-mile corridor between Richmond and Williamsburg, as well as the August opening of a 10-mile stretch of express lanes in Stafford County and Fredericksburg[...]
Professional Services 2023: JULIE SWEET
Sweet has been global CEO of IT services and consulting company Accenture since 2019 and became its chair in 2021. She joined the Fortune Global 500 company in 2010 and previously held roles including CEO of Accenture’s business in North America from 2015 to 2019. Accenture’s fiscal 2022 revenue was $61.6 billion, up[...]
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 […][...]
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 [[...]
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, to[...]
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[...]
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 […]
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[...]
Finance | Insurance 2023: TOM RYAN
Ryan’s business philosophy is simple: “Take great care of your team and they’ll take care of our [customers], and the business will take care of itself.” Ryan joined Langley Federal in 2012 after more than 20 years with Massachusetts-based Digital Federal Credit Union, where he was executive vice president and ch[...]
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[...]
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 fi[...]
