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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[...]
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[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: RYAN ANGOLD
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former Navy SEAL, Angold leads a company that was named the 24th largest federal contractor in 2019. Angold left the military in 2005 and joined Blackbird Technologies, a solutions provider for the intelligence community that’s now part of RTX. After a stint at VP Expeditionary Prog[...]
Agriculture 2024: MATTHEW RYAN
In June, Rockingham-based Soli Organic made headlines when it opened what may be the world’s largest indoor organic farm in San Antonio, Texas, nurturing 200,000 herb plants a week in its 140,000-square-foot facility. It’s all in a day’s work for the high-tech, soil-based indoor vertical farming company that pr[...]
Manufacturing 2024: MANMEET S. BHATIA
Bhatia has held the position of president and CEO of TMEIC Corp. Americas, a regional subsidiary of the Japanese-owned Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp., since 2021. During his career at TMEIC, Bhatia has served as chief operating officer for the North American branch and held executive positions in Europe and[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
Media 2024: MICHAEL STEIB
Steib succeeded David Lougee, who retired Aug. 12, as president and CEO, as well as a board member, of the nation’s largest owner of NBC-affiliate TV stations. Under Lougee’s tenure, New York-based hedge fund Standard General’s $5.4 billion bid to acquire Tegna in May 2023 was terminated. Steib, a University of[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
Banking | Finance 2024: G. ROBERT ASTON JR.
In May, hundreds gathered at the Virginia Beach Convention Center to celebrate the 25th anniversary of TowneBank. Back in 1998, Aston and friends famously launched the bank from his garage. By April of the following year, TowneBank opened three offices with the support of 4,000 founding shareholders. Today, TowneBank operate[...]
