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Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2023: JENNIFER MORRIS
For more than 25 years, Morris has dedicated her life to protecting the environment. She brings decades of global leadership, management skills and a passion for conservation to her role as CEO at The Nature Conservancy, which she joined in May 2020. She began her career in conservation while working with the Ovambo people in [&[...]
Telecommunications 2023: VINCE APRUZZESE JR.
AT&T Virginia’s president since 2010, Apruzzese took on the additional role of president of external affairs for Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D.C., in April. His expanded duties include leading the company’s public policy, legislative and philanthropic activities in the three states and D.C. In a post for the AT&am[...]
Real Estate 2023: GEORGE B. CLARKE IV
Clarke graduated from Virginia Tech in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. That same year, he founded MEB. The company started with a handful of employees as a small federal government contractor serving military installations across the Hampton Roads area. Since then, Clarke has grown it into a 250-plus employ[...]
Real Estate 2023: MARK DAVID EIN
In addition to serving as Kastle Systems’ executive chairman, Ein is now a new limited partner in the Washington Commanders as part of the group led by majority owner Josh Harris that purchased the Ashburn-based NFL team for a record $6.05 billion in July. Ein also helps run the Citi Open tennis tournament in Washington, [&hel[...]
Real Estate 2023: MATTHEW ‘MATT’ GANNON
Gannon joined Colliers International in his role as executive managing director and D.C. market leader in 2019. He is responsible for the strategic direction and performance of Colliers offices in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Maryland, totaling more than 50 real estate professionals. He had spent the previous five yea[...]
Real Estate 2023: DONALD D. GRAUL
With nearly 40 years of industry experience, Graul joined Branch in 2020 from Centreville-based Parsons Corp., where he was president of construction and a senior executive for alternative project delivery. He also worked previously for AECOM. Founded in 1963, Branch has 1,100 employees and reported $509 million in revenue for f[...]
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2023: ERIK H. NEIL
Neil has been director of the Chrysler Museum of Art since 2014, but his title changed in late 2022 when the position was endowed through a $34 million gift to the museum. He’s now the Macon and Joan Brock director, with the post named for the late Dollar Tree founder and his widow, Joan, both […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: TOM ARSENEAULT
As head of one of the Pentagon’s 10 biggest prime contractors, Arseneault has spent his career heading complex organizations on challenging missions. BAE Systems Inc. is the U.S. arm of the British defense giant and reported $12.6 billion in revenue in 2022. It has 31,300 employees in the U.S., including more than 5,000 in Vir[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: AMY GILLILAND
A former Navy surface warfare officer, Gilliland is responsible for leading an $8.5 billion IT company with 30,000 employees worldwide, 8,000 of whom work in Virginia. Gilliland joined parent company General Dynamics in 2005 and became president of GDIT in 2017. In addition to overseeing numerous federal contracts — including [...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN SERAFINI
Serafini founded his geospatial analytics company in 2015. From its constellation of satellites, HawkEye 360 collects radio frequency data that can identify and track human activity and trends for military, maritime and intelligence clients. It has helped detect illegal fishing for the Australian government, and in Ukraine, it t[...]
Government | Politics 2023: ABIGAIL SPANBERGER
Redistricted into a new Congressional district that includes Fredericksburg, Caroline County and part of Prince William County, the moderate Democrat won her third term in November 2022 against GOP challenger Yesli Vega. A former CIA officer and U.S. Postal Inspection Service law enforcement officer, Spanberger in 2018 narrowly [...]
Manufacturing 2023: DAVID LEDESMA
Formerly the head of DuPont’s plant in Buffalo, New York, Ledesma moved south to lead its facility in Chesterfield County in 2021. Founded in 1929, the Spruance plant is DuPont’s largest manufacturing site in the world, and it produces Tyvek, Nomex and Kevlar, materials that were in great demand at the start of the pandemic [...]
