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Transportation 2025: 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. In May, the tunnel boring machine, nicknamed Mary, saw its mining operations pass the halfway point with nearly 60% of the more th[...]
Transportation 2025: P. DALE BENNETT
Bennett adopted the love of trucking from his late father, a professional truck driver, and has advocated for the trucking industry for more than 40 years. The nation’s trucking industry has been hit hard in recent years by driver shortages, supply chain woes and high diesel prices. At the federal level last year, the VTA [&he[...]
Transportation 2025: RANDALL CRUTCHFIELD
Crutchfield has been chairman and CEO of Colonna’s Shipyard — one of the nation’s largest private shipyards — since January 2024, succeeding Tom Godfrey, who retired at the end of 2023 after leading the company for decades. Founded in 1875 and headquartered in Norfolk, Colonna’s provides ship repair, marine and industr[...]
Transportation 2025: STEPHEN EDWARDS
The Virginia Port Authority runs the Port of Virginia, which is one of the state’s chief economic drivers. Annually, port-related business and activity account for more than 565,000 jobs, more than $124.1 billion in total spending and $5.8 billion in state and local tax revenues. Meanwhile, Edwards and other port leaders have [...]
Transportation 2025: CHARLES KUHN
At age 16, Kuhn founded JK Moving Services, now North America’s largest independently owned and operated moving company, with $225.5 million in fiscal 2024 revenue. It employs more than 1,300 workers. The company has moved presidents and their families in and out of the White House since George H.W. Bush’s administration, in[...]
Transportation 2025: AUBREY L. LAYNE JR.
Layne, a former state secretary of finance and secretary of transportation under two governors, has worked at Sentara, a 34,000-employee regional health system, since July 2021, overseeing several teams, including legislative affairs, real estate, construction, supply chain, security, compliance, internal audit and privacy. He a[...]
Transportation 2025: CHARLES MCDANIEL
McDaniel is Hilldrup’s fourth president since the moving, storage and logistics since the moving, storage and logistics company was founded in 1903. The McDaniel family has owned the company since 1940. McDaniel also previously chaired the board for UniGroup, the Missouri- based parent company of United Van Lines and Mayflowe[...]
Transportation 2025: BEAU MEMORY
Memory started with Transurban, an Australian transportation company operating express toll lanes in Northern Virginia, in November 2023 after serving as executive director of the Public Highway Authority in Denver. He oversees 155 employees and the company’s toll lanes on the Capital Beltway and i terstates 95 and 395, as wel[...]
Transportation 2025: JERROLD MILLER
Founder of The Miller Group, the developer for Fairwinds Landing, Miller is guiding the development of the 111-acre project at Norfolk Southern’s Lambert’s Point Docks in Norfolk. The $500 million development will transform the former docks into a marine logistics center supporting the growth of offshore wind, shipbuilding[...]
Transportation 2025: KEITH HALL
In 2023, Hall tasked Bob McGonigal, TFI International executive vice president, with helping turn around TFI’s U.S. less-than-truckload operation. Montreal-based TFI purchased TForce, which had lost revenue in the past few years, from UPS in 2021 for $800 million. TFI reported its 2024 net income was $422.5 million, down from [...]
Transportation 2025: NISSIM YOCHAI
Yochai was tapped as Zim American’s president in 2022. The U.S. company, a subsidiary of Israeli cargo shipping company Zim Integrated Shipping Services, moved to the Hampton Roads region in 2001. Last year, Zim American relocated and expanded its U.S. headquarters, moving from Norfolk to Virginia Beach. In 2011, Yochai join[...]
