Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: TODD STOTTLEMYER
With nearly seven years leading Acentra Health, Stottlemyer oversees a health care solutions company that employs approximately 3,000 people across the United States and India. Founded in 1994 as Client Network Services, the company was acquired by Carlyle Group in 2021, then merged with Nashville, Tennessee-based health care ma[...]
Real Estate 2024: CHRIS WILLIAMS
Williams serves as senior vice president for Fortune 500 discount retailer Dollar Tree’s real estate portfolio, a position in which he leads Summit Pointe Realty, the entity developing Summit Pointe. Dollar Tree formed the Summit Pointe Realty subsidiary in 2015 after acquiring North Carolina-based Family Dollar Stores for $8.[...]
Law 2024: LAURA FOOTE REIFF
Reiff has logged more than three decades of experience representing businesses and organizations in the complicated immigration and compliance legal sphere. Serving as co-manager of the global firm’s Northern Virginia office, Reiff also oversees about 50 attorneys, and she chairs the firm’s Northern Virginia/Washington, D.C.[...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: DOUG BRADBURN
The most popular historic estate in the U.S., Mount Vernon receives about 1 million visitors annually. Bradburn is currently overseeing a privately funded preservation project to ensure the structural integrity of George Washington’s mansion for decades to come. The $40 million project, which started last year and will stretch[...]
Banking | Finance 2024: LAWRENCE ‘LARRY’ DI RITA
Di Rita has led the greater Washington D.C., market for Bank of America since 2019. He’s also the bank’s head of global public policy. Di Rita joined the bank as an external affairs executive in 2006 after previously making a name for himself in the U.S. Navy and the federal government. From 1980 until 1993, […]
Manufacturing 2024: NEIL D. WILKIN JR.
Wilkin was named Optical Cable’s chairman and CEO in September 2003. Those titles joined his other roles as Optical Cable’s president and board member. Wilkin joined Optical Cable in 2001 as senior vice president, chief financial officer and director. He became acting president in December 2001, in addition to his role as CF[...]
Real Estate 2024: CHRIS CLEMENTE
Clemente is the son-in-law of NVR founder Dwight Schar, who is a co-owner of Comstock Holdings and Comstock Partners with Clemente. Founded in 1985, the privately held Comstock is among the mid-Atlantic’s largest developers of mixed-use and transit-oriented developments. Comstock’s 2023 revenue was $44.7 million, with a mana[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: JILL SINGER
In September 2023, Singer began her new role as AT&T’s vice president of federal solutions. In this role, Singer works to advance the adoption of 5G capabilities and promote network modernization efforts to support government missions. This effort includes everything from helping first responders communicate during disaste[...]
Economic Development 2024: JASON EL KOUBI
As VEDP’s leader since 2022, El Koubi oversees numerous initiatives designed to attract outside companies to locate in the commonwealth and to help Virginia businesses expand operations. He’s also responsible for growing economic awareness of Virginia globally, as evidenced by the Virginia trade office in Taiwan that VEDP op[...]
Professional Services 2024: THOMAS L. MILBURN
Last October, Milburn was tapped as the new 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 developin[...]
Economic Development 2024: ANTHONY J. ROMANELLO
Henrico County is poised to be home to a large technology campus on more than 600 acres not far from the Richmond Airport, after the Board of Supervisors greenlit in May a request for rezoning from developer Hourigan. The project could eventually be home to multiple data centers and light manufacturing facilities. The developmen[...]
Real Estate 2024: T. RICHARD LITTON JR.
Litton oversees the day-to-day operations of the commercial real estate and management company, which currently boasts $19 billion in real estate investment properties, with diversified property portfolios including office, retail and multifamily properties. Additionally, he manages Harbor Group International’s transaction gro[...]