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Agriculture 2024: NEIL A. HOUFF
Starting as a liquid fertilizer business on a Shenandoah family farm in 1975, Houff Corp. grew to provide a range of agricultural and industrial services, including agronomy, supply chain solutions, transloading and biosolids management. Two years ago, the company acquired 14 acres to expand its Doswell rail transload yard, wher[...]
Banking | Finance 2024: THOMAS RANSOM
Ransom boasts 24 years in the banking industry. At BB&T he started as a commercial banker in 2020 and went on to become greater Washington, D.C., market president. After Truist formed in 2018 through a merger of BB&T and SunTrust Banks, Ransom went to Charlotte, North Carolina, as an executive vice president before retur[...]
Retail 2024: WATT R. FOSTER JR.
In 1989, Foster bought Foster Fuels from his father, the late Watt R. “Bobby” Foster Sr. The younger Foster marks the third generation to run the family business, which was founded in 1921. With about 240 employees, the company in fiscal 2023 had $215 million in revenue. Foster held the titles of CEO and president […]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: ALLIE EVANGELISTA
A native of Brazil, Evangelista had 20-plus years of experience in hospitality and gaming around the United States before leaving Penn National Gaming operations to join the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol in early 2022. Hard Rock opened a temporary casino in Bristol in July 2022, with plans to open the approximately $515 m[...]
Law 2024: THOMAS C. INGLIMA
Inglima has been at Willcox & Savage for more than a quarter of a century. In 2021, he was named managing partner of the firm. Inglima’s practice centers around mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and securities transactions, intellectual property, licensing and technology transfers, and general corporate work, inc[...]
Banking | Finance 2024: STEPHAN Q. CASSADAY
Since Cassaday founded his Northern Virginia firm in 1993, it has grown from $40 million in assets under management to $5.5 billion. Today, Cassaday & Co. has 86 employees who work with more than 3,000 investors. The firm is ranked No. 42 on Barron’s Top 250 Private Wealth Management Teams list for 2024. A Radford [&hell[...]
Retail 2024: YOUNG CHOI
Choi was announced as the new leader of StarKist in December 2023, replacing Chae-Ung Um, who had been in the role for about a year and left to “pursue new professional opportunities,” according to a company news release. Choi starts the new position just as South Korea’s Dongwon F&B, also a subsidiary of StarKist pare[...]
Education 2024: KARL McDONNELL
Focused on primarily online learning for working adults, Strategic Education was formed in 2018 through the $2 billion merger of Strayer Education and Capella Education. The education services holding company owns for-profit Strayer and Capella universities and other entities. McDonnell previously was president and CEO of Straye[...]
Law 2024: MICHAEL M. YORK
Formerly a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who covered federal courts for The Washington Post, York became an attorney in 1994 and started his own firm focused on corporate litigation and white-collar criminal cases. He became president of the state bar July 1, starting his one-year term after serving on the bar’[...]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2024: KERRY ALYS ROBINSON
Robinson, who assumed her role in August 2023, is only the second layperson and second woman to lead the domestic humanitarian work branch of the Catholic Church in the United States. She followed Sister Donna Markham’s eight-year tenure. A member of the Leadership Roundtable — a network of lay people and Catholic clergy tha[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: SHAWN PURVIS
President and CEO of security and defense contractor QinetiQ US since February 2022, Purvis previously worked at Northrop Grumman, where she was enterprise services sector president and a corporate vice president. Prior to joining Northrop Grumman in 2012, Purvis worked for Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), where [...]
Education 2024: GORDON P. ROBERTSON
Robertson became chancellor of the private, conservative Christian university in July 2023 following the death at age 93 of his famous and controversial father, Pat Robertson, who founded the school in 1977. Gordon Robertson had succeeded his father in 2007 as president and CEO of Christian Broadcasting Network and host of its f[...]
