Hospitality | Tourism 2025: HARDIE, MOLLY AND ROBERT

H7 Holdings is a private family investment company that owns and manages Keswick Hall and Golf Club in Albemarle County and the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Venture capital firm Level One Partners invests in the health care and life sciences sectors. The couple also runs the H7 Foundation, supporting educational and nonprofit endeavors, and have donated millions to the University of Virginia.

Robert Hardie earned three degrees at U.Va., where he recently concluded his third term on its board of visitors. From 2023 through the end of June, he was the university’s rector, a turbulent period that included the sudden resignation of U.Va. President Jim Ryan in June. Hardie also taught as an adjunct professor at the Darden School of Business and co-authored two books.

Molly Hardie oversaw major renovations at Keswick Hall and Hermitage Hotel. In 2017, H7 assumed ownership of Keswick Hall from The Riverstone Group, owned by her father, Richmond philanthropist Bill Goodwin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and U.Va.’s medical school, she chairs the board of trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns Monticello.

The couple received the 2024 Historic Hotels of America Lifetime Achievement Award.

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