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Professional Services 2025: CLAY, RUTH ‘PAIGE’
In 2024, Clay became global sales and client engagement leader for Marsh McLennan in addition to being a senior partner for its Mercer subsidiary. She develops sales and client engagement strategies for the Fortune 500 professional services firm’s four businesses, which collectively have more than 85,000 employees in about[...]
Professional Services 2025: BOWLES, MARK
Bowles was one of the founding senior vice presidents when McGuireWoods Consulting formed in 1998, and he became chairman of the 120-employee public affairs firm in 2018. He’s also a partner with law firm McGuireWoods, the consulting firm’s parent company and Virginia’s largest law firm. As a lawyer and consul[...]
Professional Services 2025: JOHNSON, HARVEY L.
Having joined PBMares in 2003, Johnson had nearly two decades of experience at the accounting and consulting firm when he took the helm from co-founder Alan S. Witt in January 2021; to date, Johnson is only the second person to lead PBMares. Before becoming CEO, Johnson served as practice leader for the firm’s financial in[...]
Professional Services 2025: BLANK, JEREMY
With nearly three decades under his belt at Deloitte, Blank was promoted in January 2024 from head of the Big Four global accounting firm’s Greater Washington market to a national role as U.S. tax chief strategy officer. Blank oversees services for national and global tax clients, including specializations such as tax pla[...]
Professional Services 2025: JUNAIDEEN, AMRY
In 2024, 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. Junaideen was previously principal at the Deloitte & Touche subsidiary. Junaideen started as a senior consultan[...]
Professional Services 2025: BLONDIN, JACOB
After seven years with RetailData, serving as chief operating officer and vice president of strategic initiatives, Blondin was tapped to become CEO in 2020. In 2021, RetailData acquired e-commerce data extraction and software development company Loginworks. Blondin launched Intrics that same year. In November 2024, RetailData re[...]
Professional Services 2025: HARTOGS, CASSIE
Hartogs serves as BDO USA’s tax market managing principal for the Greater Washington market. She oversees more than 550 tax professionals across 10 cities and leads the tax practice in operations, strategy, business development, recruiting and professional development. She’s also a leader of BDO USA’s tax effic[...]
Professional Services 2025: ROBINSON, DANNY
In 2024, after serving as The Martin Agency’s chief creative officer since 2020, Robinson became the advertising agency’s CEO, succeeding Kristen Cavallo. Robinson joined Martin two decades ago and has overseen campaigns for national clients like Geico, UPS and Old Navy. During his tenure as chief creative officer, A[...]
Professional Services 2025: KOTTER, DAN
In 2023, Kotter was tapped to become Greater Washington managing partner for Ernst & Young, succeeding Kevin Virostek, who retired. Kotter has worked at EY since 1998 and previously served as an assurance partner. In addition to managing EY’s Greater Washington offices, Kotter holds client-serving responsibilities. He [...]
Professional Services 2025: MARX JR., BILL
Marx became Grant Thornton’s D.C. market managing principal in 2024, leading the Arlington regional office for the Chicago-based U.S. arm of the global accounting firm network. With more than 25 years of experience, Marx was a tax principal at Grant Thornton for 13-plus years. From 2015 to 2020, he led the firm’s Tax[...]
Professional Services 2025: MILBURN, THOMAS L.
In October 2024, Milburn was tapped as CEO for YHB, the accounting services firm where he began his career in 1997. Each YHB CEO serves a five-year term, and Milburn succeeds C. Scott Moulden, under whose leadership the firm acquired five accounting firms and grew to 300-plus employees, expanding into Maryland and developing its[...]
Professional Services 2025: PETERS, STEPHANIE R.
Peters has led the state’s professional association for CPAs since 1997, representing nearly 13,000 members in both the public and private sectors. The accounting industry has faced a dearth of workers in recent years; in 2024, Peters told Virginia Business that, while CPA staffing levels had become more stable in recent y[...]
