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Health Care 2023: DR. STERLING N. RANSONE JR.
A third-generation family physician, Ransone also serves as board chair for the American Academy of Family Physicians, the professional association representing 136,700 physicians and medical students nationwide. A family medicine practitioner for more than 25 years, he is physician practice director at Riverside Fishing Bay Fam[...]
Transportation 2023: DEVON C. ANDERS
In 1993, Jerry Morris and Wayne Ruck bought an old Weyers Cave factory, seeking to maintain their box-manufacturing business while entering the logistics sector. Anders, then an accountant seeking a different field, became InterChange’s president in 2000. Since then, InterChange’s portfolio has grown to nearly 2 million squa[...]
Transportation 2023: STEPHEN C. BRICH
Appointed in 2018, Brich manages about 7,700 VDOT employees and an $8 billion annual budget. The nation’s third largest transportation agency, VDOT opened Interstate 66’s new express toll lanes outside the Capitol Beltway ahead of schedule last year. In Hampton Roads, VDOT is working on the biggest transportation project in [...]
Transportation 2023: PETER LEVESQUE
Levesque, an international global supply chain executive with more than 30 years of industry leadership experience, assumed the presidency of both CMA CGM America and APL following Ed Aldridge’s December 2022 retirement. Levesque was previously president of Ports America and spent 25 years based in Hong Kong. He has held execu[...]
Economic Development 2023: STU SOLOMON
Solomon has been leading the public-private Connected DMV economic development group since 2019. In May, the organization and partners submitted a landmark U.S. Department of Energy application to create the Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub, which would displace more than 420,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year and create an es[...]
Education 2023: AIMEE ROGSTAD GUIDERA
A proponent of charter schools who ran an education consultancy and a nonprofit organization that compiles national education data, Guidera was the first secretary appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who campaigned on parental rights in public education. Guidera is responsible for leading the state’s public schools and has signi[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: BILL MONET
With more than 9,500 worldwide employees, 24% of whom are veterans, Akima is an Alaska Native corporation that handles federal contracts for the for-profit NANA Regional business owned by Indigenous Iñupiat shareholders. Monet, who serves as chief operating officer of NANA in addition to his duties as CEO and president of subsi[...]
Finance | Insurance 2023: JEAN STACK
In 2018, Stack, John Song and Alex Sevilla left the government services sector at California-based investment bank Houlihan Lokey to lead government services investment banking for Wisconsin-based Robert W. Baird & Co. Stack had worked 23 years at Houlihan Lokey, where she was a founding member of its Aerospace, Defense &[...]
2023 Virginia 500: Government | Politics
Richard Cullen COUNSELOR TO GOV. GLENN YOUNGKIN, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, RICHMOND Winsome Earle-Sears LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, RICHMOND Kelly T. Gee SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, RICHMOND C. Todd Gilbert SPEAKER, VIRGINIA HOUSE OF DELEGATES, WOODSTOCK Charniele L. Herring HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS CHAIR, VIRGINIA […][...]
Real Estate 2023: BENJAMIN SCHALL
Before becoming CEO in 2022, Schall was AvalonBay’s president, joining the company just the year before. Previously, Schall was CEO of Seritage Growth Properties and chief operating officer of Rouse Properties. At Rouse, he oversaw the redevelopment and operations of a $2.5 billion portfolio of 35 regional malls across the cou[...]
Finance | Insurance 2023: LAWRENCE ‘LARRY’ DI RITA
Di Rita, who had already had an impressive 25-year career in the Navy and federal government, embarked on a second career as a banking executive when he joined Bank of America in 2006. He was named market president for Greater Washington, D.C., in 2019. From 2001 to 2006, Di Rita served as special assistant to […]
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2023: RICK DREILING
It’s been a wild ride at the discount retailer this past year, with a shakeup in Dollar Tree’s C-suite toppling much of its top brass. Mike Witynski, who had held leadership roles at Dollar Tree since 2010 and was CEO of the Fortune 500 discount retailer since 2020, left in January. He played a key […]
