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Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: MARK P. MARRON
With more than three decades in the tech industry, Marron has been with ePlus since 2005, becoming its president and CEO in 2016 and a member of the company’s board two years later. In May, ePlus acquired assets of Network Solutions Group, a Michigan-based networking services company in the broadband service provider end-m[...]
Economic Development 2023: DOUG SMITH
After serving as Norfolk’s city manager and Virginia Beach’s deputy city manager, Smith now leads the Hampton Roads Alliance, the regional economic development organization representing 14 municipalities and numerous private-sector investors. For the past four years, Smith and his team have helped establish Hampton R[...]
Real Estate 2023: DONALD E. STONE JR.
Stone, who has been Dewberry’s chief executive since 2010, oversees a $602.7 million engineering, architecture and construction firm with more than 60 offices nationwide. A 1980 civil engineering graduate of The Citadel, Stone was an Army second lieutenant, and after leaving the military in 1983, he joined the engineering [...]
Real Estate 2023: DAN NOVACK
Novack was named president of the Dallas-based contracting and construction management company’s mid-Atlantic operation in January, but his career with Balfour started more than two decades ago. As mid-Atlantic president, he provides strategic oversight for Balfour Beatty’s construction projects in Washington, D.C., [...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: WILLIAM H. ‘BILL’ DEAN
Founded by Dean’s grandfather in 1949 as an electrical construction company, M.C. Dean was still a relatively small business, with just 150 employees, when Dean became CEO in 1997. Today, M.C. Dean has more than 5,200 employees worldwide, including 2,000 in Virginia, and the privately owned design-build systems integration[...]
Living Legends 2023: JOAN P. BROCK
Brock embraces the art of philanthropy, as well as philanthropy through art. A longtime art collector and patron, the Norfolk native donated $34 million to the Chrysler Museum of Art in 2022. Her gift funded endowments for two curator posts and included 40 pieces from her private collection, including works by John Singer Sargen[...]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2023: ROMAINE SEGUIN
Seguin’s global supply chain and logistics expertise as former president of UPS Global Freight Forwarding has served her well as CEO of Good360, a nonprofit that gathers essential goods and distributes them to nonprofits. The organization, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, distributed more than $2.5 billion [...]
Professional Services 2023: KEVIN VIROSTEK
Virostek works with some of the fastest growing companies in the Washington, D.C., area, leading 3,500 professionals at Big Four accounting and professional services firm Ernst & Young across assurance, tax consulting and transaction practices. With 2022 global revenue of $45.4 billion and about 365,000 employees worldwide, [...]
Health Care 2023: MAUREEN H. McBRIDE
In April, after serving as interim CEO for seven months, McBride became the first woman to lead UNOS, the beleaguered nonprofit that operates the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). Following years of criticism over problems such as discarded or damaged organs, long waiting lists and technological issu[...]
Transportation 2023: JERROLD ‘JERRY’ MILLER
A veteran in the region’s ship repair industry, Miller is spearheading the $100 million development of Fairwinds Landing, a maritime operations and logistics hub supporting Hampton Roads’ offshore wind, defense and transportation industries. The 111-acre project at Norfolk Southern Corp.’s Lambert’s Point[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN USTICA
In his new role leading federal contractor Siemens Government Technologies, Ustica oversees a company focused on securing and modernizing technology infrastructure. Ustica was named president and CEO in October 2022 for SGT, the U.S. contracting arm of German tech conglomerate Siemens. He joined SGT in 2018 as chief financial of[...]
Real Estate 2023: BRETT HITT
Hitt’s grandparents started the family business in 1930, now one of Virginia’s biggest general contracting firms, earning $5.41 billion in 2022 construction revenue and landing in the top 20 of Engineering News-Record’s 2023 Top Contractors list. Hitt joined his family’s company as an assistant project ma[...]
