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Manufacturing: CHARLIE LUCK IV
Like his father and grandfather, Luck has been with his family business for most of his life, including as a trainee while attending Virginia Military Institute. He spent four years as a NASCAR driver, competing in what is now the Xfinity Series, before returning to Luck Cos., going on to become president and CEO in […]
Economic Development: WILLIAM H. ‘WILL’ PAYNE II
Under Payne’s leadership, InvestSWVA helped land Atlanta-headquartered EarthLink, which is set to create 285 jobs in Norton, part of a larger plan to market former coal-mining land for other uses. A graduate of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business’ Global Executive MBA program, Payne holds several significant[...]
Education: AIMEE ROGSTAD GUIDERA
With a background in K-12 education strategy, Guidera was the first person appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin to his Cabinet, announced a month after the Republican was elected governor. Before becoming state education secretary, she ran an education consultancy, Guidera Strategy, and also founded the Data Quality Campaign, a no[...]
Education: BRIAN O. HEMPHILL
Hemphill is no stranger to building partnerships. After becoming Old Dominion University’s president in summer 2021, he helped forge a partnership between ODU, Norfolk State University and Eastern Virginia Medical School to create a regional school of public health. Later in the year, ODU, EVMS and Sentara Healthcare entere[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: ROY AZEVEDO
When Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a subsidiary of Fortune 500 defense giant Raytheon Technologies Corp., acquired Colorado-based space electronics firm SEAKR Engineering for an undisclosed sum in late 2021, Azevedo spoke about the race to control space. “Today’s growing space market demands greater innovation, technolo[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: WILLIAM H. ‘BILL’ DEAN
When Dean took over as CEO of the electrical engineering firm founded by his grandfather in 1949, M.C. Dean had “150 good employees with good DNA and a great work ethic,” Dean told Virginia Business in 2020. Dean joined the company in 1990 to start its technology division and became president and CEO in 1997. […]
Federal Contractors/Technology: TODD STOTTLEMYER
The head of health information technology company CNSI since 2018, Stottlemyer remained CEO after the company changed hands in December 2021. Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group purchased CNSI, which was founded in 1994 as Client Network Services Inc., for an undisclosed amount. CNSI processes medical cl[...]
Finance/Insurance: NIGEL MORRIS
The website Crowdfund Insider describes Morris “as one of the most famous and successful fintech investors in the world.” Along with Richard Fairbank, who Morris calls “one of the most special human beings on the planet,” Morris co-founded Capital One Financial Corp. in the early 1990s. He left his position as Capital On[...]
Law: WILLIAM R. ‘BILL’ VAN BUREN III
A past president of the Virginia Bar Association and the Virginia Law Foundation, Van Buren joined his firm — then known as Canoles, Mastracco, Martone, Barr and Russell — in 1981, after graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law. Also a William & Mary alum, Van Buren comes from the family that formerly [&h[...]
Real Estate: MATTHEW ‘MATT’ GANNON
Gannon oversees Colliers’ offices in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Maryland, with more than 50 real estate professionals providing clients with an array of services including representing commercial tenants and landlords and providing valuations and appraisals, and marketing and research. Colliers, an international c[...]
Real Estate: BOB MILKOVICH
Milkovich joined Rand, a privately owned, nationwide commercial general contractor specializing in retail and restaurant construction, tenant interiors and building renovations, in January 2019 as its chief. He succeeded Linda Rabbitt, who founded the company more than three decades ago. Before that, Milkovich served as CEO of F[...]
Education: MAJ. GEN. CEDRIC T. WINS (U.S. ARMY, RET.)
Wins has had one of academia’s toughest jobs since returning to his alma mater as its interim superintendent in 2020. The public military university has been under fire for a “racist and sexist culture,” a charge laid at its doorstep during an independent, state-ordered investigation last summer. Wins, a 1985 alumnus, also[...]
