ALAN S. WITT

In 1979, Alan S. Witt co-founded the accounting firm known today as PBMares, and under his leadership, it became one of the nation’s top 100 accounting companies. Today it has 13 offices in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina.

A longtime force in Newport News and the Hampton Roads region, Witt has sat on numerous boards, including spending more than two decades, many as chair, on the Riverside Health board. He also served on the board of visitors and as rector of Christopher Newport University, his alma mater. Witt is also a former chair of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

A former member of the Newport News City Council and the Industrial Development Authority, Witt was appointed by separate Virginia governors to serve on the Commonwealth Transportation Board and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Commission. Witt was also a member of the development group that built City Center at Oyster Point, a Newport News commercial and residential hub that opened in the 2000s.

In 2020, Witt retired from PBMares. Not one to spend his afternoons with “Judge Judy,” he went to work in 2021 as executive in residence at CNU. The following summer, he was named dean of the university’s Luter Business School, a post he held until July.