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Real Estate 2023: CARL L. HARDEE
Lawson’s president and CEO since 2016, Hardee has been with the company for more than half of its 51 years. He oversees a 190-employee real estate development, construction and management company. In June, Lawson held a grand opening for Market Heights, a 164-unit apartment community in Norfolk, and the company is near complet[...]
Real Estate 2023: WILLIAM A. ‘BILL’ PAULETTE
In 1975, armed with $1,000 to invest, Paulette laid the foundation for what would eventually become KBS, a top-ranked mid-Atlantic construction firm. What started as a one-person company with an office in a sheet-metal shop has grown to a firm with 160-plus employees and offices in Richmond and Virginia Beach. KBS is known for p[...]
2023 Virginia 500: Health Care
Nancy Howell Agee CEO, CARILION CLINIC, ROANOKE Anthony ‘Tony’ Baker EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING, TECHNICAL OPERATIONS LEAD, MERCK & CO., ELKTON Seth Blackley CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, EVOLENT HEALTH, ARLINGTON COUNTY Amy Carrier PRESIDENT AND CEO, CENTRA HEALTH, LYNCHBURG Dr. Sandy L. Chung CEO, TRUSTED DOCTORS; PRESIDENT, AMERICAN […][...]
2023 Virginia 500: Transportation
Devon C. Anders PRESIDENT, INTERCHANGE GROUP, MOUNT CRAWFORD Monica Backmon CEO, NORTHERN VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, FAIRFAX COUNTY Ryan Banas ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND HRBT EXPANSION PROJECT DIRECTOR, HNTB, NORFOLK Judy Barrett PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA MARITIME ASSOCIATION; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, TOWNEBANK, NORFOLK P. Dale Bennett PRESIDENT AND CEO, […][...]
2023 Virginia 500: Professional Services
Jeremy Blank GREATER WASHINGTON MANAGING PARTNER, DELOITTE, McLEAN Jacob Blondin PRESIDENT AND CEO, RD HOLDINGS, RETAILDATA, INTRICS, GLEN ALLEN Gloria Bohan FOUNDER, PRESIDENT AND CEO, OMEGA WORLD TRAVEL, McLEAN Kristen Cavallo CEO, MULLENLOWE GLOBAL, THE MARTIN AGENCY, RICHMOND Ruth “Paige” Clay SENIOR PARTNER, MID-SOUTH MARKET, MERCER, RICHMOND […][...]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: DAVID GUM
Gum’s company, whose apple products east of the Mississippi are sold mostly under the White House Foods label, has been family-owned since 1908. Owned by the Armstrongs for 98 years, National Fruit was purchased by Gum in 2006, although he worked at the company since he was 20. The Gum family also owns Winchester-based furnitu[...]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: SHANE SMITH
Smith became CEO of Smithfield Foods in 2021, just as Smithfield, the world’s largest pork product manufacturer and hog producer, said it would end slaughter operations in its hometown of Smithfield, the country’s self-proclaimed “ham capital.” Now, Smith is trying to navigate tricky financial waters as conservative po[...]
Finance | Insurance 2023: MICHAEL DeVITO
Freddie Mac’s leader since June 2021, DeVito has spent the past two years focused on advancing affordable housing, practicing risk management excellence, growing talent and delivering strong financial results. A government-sponsored enterprise that buys mortgages and packages them as mortgage-backed securities, the Federal Hom[...]
Finance | Insurance 2023: JERMAINE JOHNSON
Johnson has led Virginia and Washington, D.C., metro area operations for Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group Inc. since August 2020, 15 years after he joined the bank. A graduate of James Madison University, Johnson has more than two decades of experience in the banking industry. Before coming to PNC, he worked in port[...]
Government | Politics 2023: ROB WITTMAN
Elected to Congress in 2007, Republican Wittman represents parts of Richmond’s suburbs, as well as the Peninsula and regions east of Fredericksburg on the Chesapeake Bay. As of January, he chairs the House Armed Services Committee, and serves on the Natural Resources Committee. Although Wittman has co-sponsored bipartisan legi[...]
Law 2023: VICTOR O. CARDWELL
Cardwell grew up in a family that highly valued education, and after his sister went to law school, so did he. A University of Virginia and Washington and Lee law graduate, Cardwell now is one of the leaders at the state’s fifth largest law firm, which formed in 2022 with the merger of Vandeventer Black […]
Law 2023: CARL TOBIAS
As Williams endowed chair for the University of Richmond School of Law since 2004, Tobias is a prolific writer and scholar, with an emphasis on federal judicial selection. He has authored more than 200 Law Review articles in some of the country’s top law journals, including the Stanford, Columbia, California and Cornell law re[...]
