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Real Estate 2023: BRIAN F. BORTELL
Bortell has been with Timmons Group for over three decades, starting his career with the company as an entry-level engineer and working his way up into his current role. He sets the strategic direction for the 1,000-plus-person firm and oversees its four operating divisions and 18 offices across the U.S. Under Bortell’s leader[...]
2023 Virginia 500: Agriculture
George C. Freeman III CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, UNIVERSAL CORP., RICHMOND Corwin Heatwole FOUNDING FARMER AND CEO, FARMER FOCUS, HARRISONBURG Neil A. Houff PRESIDENT AND TRANSLOADING OPERATIONS MANAGER, HOUFF CORP., WEYERS CAVE John King PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA POULTRY GROWERS COOPERATIVE, HINTON Matthew J. Lohr SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, […][...]
How we assemble the Virginia 500
When I give my elevator speech about the Virginia 500, it usually starts this way: It’s like the Fortune 500, but instead of companies, it’s about people. Unlike the Fortune 500, which ranks companies by gross revenues, this is a more subjective list. Compiled via staff research, we catalog Virginia’s 500 most powerful lea[...]
Energy 2023: ROBERT M. ‘BOB’ BLUE
Dominion’s CEO since 2020, Blue leads the Fortune 500 utility’s 17,000 employees, serving nearly 7 million customers in 13 states. Dominion also is powering ahead on its $9.8 billion, 176-turbine offshore wind farm off the coast of Virginia Beach. Upon its projected 2026 completion, it will produce 2.6 gigawatts of energy, s[...]
Energy 2023: ANDRÉS GLUSKI
A native of Venezuela, Gluski was a leader in renewable energy production and carbon emission reduction, even before 2011 when he became head of AES, a Fortune 500 global electric utility that generates power to 2.6 million customers in 14 countries. In fiscal year 2022, AES reported $12.6 billion in revenue, up from $11.1 billi[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: CLAYTON TURNER
Turner reaches for the stars every day. A 30-year NASA veteran, he is at the helm of NASA’s celebrated Langley Research Center as scientists work to send astronauts back to the moon by 2025 and prepare for the momentous manned mission to Mars. For the past three decades, Turner has served in various engineering and […]
Health Care 2023: EDWARD A. PESICKA
Under Pesicka’s leadership since 2019, Fortune 500 health care logistics and supplies company Owens & Minor employs more than 1,400 people in Virginia and about 20,000 worldwide. The company reported $9.95 billion in 2022 revenue, but its net income was $22 million, down from a pandemic high of $222 million when the compan[...]
Transportation 2023: RYAN BANAS
Banas oversees the $3.9 billion Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion, the largest transportation infrastructure project in state history. Aimed at increasing capacity and easing congestion, the project will widen existing four-lane segments along 10 miles of the Interstate 64 corridor in Norfolk and Hampton, and also will add t[...]
Law 2023: DANIEL C. SUMMERLIN III
A Roanoke native, Summerlin practices law in areas ranging from administrative and regulatory — with an emphasis on environmental law — to labor and employment and litigation, as well as leading the direction of Virginia’s fifth largest law firm. Additionally, he counsels clients on government investigations and white-coll[...]
Real Estate 2023: DERRICK SWAAK
Swaak became a partner at TTR Sotheby’s International Realty in 2007 and now holds the positions of co-chief operating officer and managing broker for the company’s Virginia offices, with more than 500 agents covering McLean and The Plains. His professional background extends to hotel development, acquisitions, and franchise[...]
Virginia 500 2023
Who are Virginia’s most powerful and influential leaders in business, government, politics and education this year? Find out in the fourth annual edition of the Virginia 500: The 2023-24 Power List. Read more about how we assembled the Virginia 500 from our editor. And see a note from our publisher about Virginia’s p[...]
Agriculture 2023: NEIL A. HOUFF
Founded in 1975, family fertilizer business Houff Corp. expanded to provide a variety of agricultural and industrial services to farmers in the Shenandoah Valley, including crop fertilization and trucking. “We don’t fit in a box,” says Houff, president since the early 1990s. “We are a third-party logistics company that u[...]
