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Transportation 2024: RYAN BANAS
Banas oversees the $3.9 billion Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion, the largest highway construction project in Virginia’s history and one of the largest infrastructure projects in the country. Milestones this year included one on April 17 when the tunnel boring machine, nicknamed Mary, completed its much-anticipated jo[...]
Manufacturing 2024: JONATHAN JENKINS
Jenkins became president of Culpeper Wood Preservers in 2016. Started from a single location in Culpeper in 1976, the company today has 18 facilities on the East Coast and in Indiana and Tennessee. It is a leading manufacturer of pressure-treated lumber products for the residential, commercial, industrial and marine markets. Its[...]
Law 2024: DOUGLAS S. GRANGER
Nearly four decades have passed since Granger went to work at Hunton & Williams in 1985 as a fresh-faced graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. While Granger has remained at the same firm, some things have changed. In 2018, Hunton & Williams merged with Andrews Kurth Kenyon, a Texas-based practice well kno[...]
Professional Services 2024: AMRY JUNAIDEEN
In January, Junaideen took over as Greater Washington market leader for Big Four global accounting firm Deloitte. He also serves as managing partner of Deloitte’s Northern Virginia offices in Rosslyn and McLean. Immediately prior to taking on these executive roles, Junaideen was principal at the Deloitte & Touche subsi[...]
Energy 2024: JOHN D. HEWA
Since its launch last year, Regional Internet Service Expansion has connected hundreds of Virginians to broadband internet. The $288 million project is a partnership between Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, Firefly Fiber Broadband and Virginia localities that aims to bring high-speed internet to more than 36,000 businesses and[...]
Real Estate 2024: EUGENE J. BREDOW
Bredow has worked for NVR since 2004 and, after holding several executive positions in accounting and administration, became president of NVR Mortgage in April 2019. In 2022, he was appointed president and CEO of NVR, which operates in two business segments that include homebuilding and mortgage banking. Founded in 1980, the com[...]
Real Estate 2024: MIKE CULPEPPER
As Venture Realty Group’s in-house attorney and managing partner, Culpepper coordinates deal formation, land-use entitlement, and predevelopment services. Previously, he was an associate with law firm Williams Mullen’s real estate and land use team and a principal with Fee Simple Legal, focusing on real estate transa[...]
2024 Virginia 500: Telecommunications
VINCE APRUZZESE JR. PRESIDENT, AT&T VIRGINIA, RICHMOND MATTHEW J. DESCH CEO, IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS, McLEAN CHRISTOPHER E. FRENCH CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, SHENANDOAH TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SHENTEL), EDINBURG MAGGIE HALLBACH SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, VERIZON PUBLIC SECTOR; PRESIDENT, VERIZON FRONTLINE, OAKTON MICHAEL KEEGAN CEO, TRANSACTION NETWORK SERVICES (TNS), RESTON &n[...]
Insurance 2024: TOM BROWN
In 1916, Thomas Rutherfoord launched an insurance agency in Roanoke. Flash forward to 1979: Brown, Rutherfoord’s grandson, started his own insurance career at the family business. In 1983, Brown moved from the Star City to Richmond to open a Rutherfoord office there with one employee. Brown became president of the company [...]
Banking | Finance 2024: JERMAINE JOHNSON
In addition to leading the Virginia and Washington D.C., metro area operations for Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group, Johnson served as the 2023 chair of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, where he tackled issues such as Metro funding, public safety and downtown revitalization. At a January celebration of Johnson[...]
Real Estate 2024: JON JENNINGS
Jennings is the third generation to lead the general contracting firm, which was started as a masonry firm in 1952 by his bricklayer grandfather, Lawrence Floyd Jennings. Larry Jennings, L.F.’s son and Jon’s father, joined the company in 1965 and helped expand the business into general contracting. In the 1980s, the [...]
Law 2024: WENDY COLLINS PERDUE
In October 2023, the University of Richmond celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first woman graduating from Richmond Law — only 25 years after U.S. women were allowed to serve on juries. Times have changed. In 2023, 39% of all U.S. lawyers were women, according to the American Bar Association. Today, 55% of all law [&helli[...]
