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Education 2024: JAVAUNE ADAMS-GASTON
Under Adams-Gaston’s leadership since 2019, Norfolk State has racked up achievements ranging from regularly ranking among U.S. News & World Report’s top 20 historically Black colleges and universities to attaining a 10-year reaffirmation of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on[...]
Education 2024: DAVID DORÉ
When Doré arrived in Richmond in April 2023 to become the 10th chancellor of the Virginia Community College System, he began his tenure by traveling 3,600 miles in 36 days on a listening tour across the state. As head of the state’s community college system, Doré oversees 23 colleges with 40 campuses and more than […]
Government | Politics 2024: CHRIS LaCIVITA
Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Chesterfield County, Republican power player LaCivita is a former Marine, a Purple Heart recipient and one of a handful of insiders who has former President Donald Trump’s ear. LaCivita got his start as a GOP political strategist in the 1990s, working on George Allen’s successful congressio[...]
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2024: LAWRENCE A. ‘LARRY’ SELZER
Selzer has led The Conservation Fund since 2001, helping to protect vital lands and waters in the United States to provide greater access to nature, strengthen local economies and enhance climate resiliency. The only environmental group in the country chartered for both conservation and economic development, it has protected mor[...]
Retail 2024: ROBERT PETERSON
Rosenthal Automotive has been a family affair since its beginning in 1954, when the late Robert Rosenthal and his father opened an Arlington County Chevy dealership. During the next six decades, Rosenthal grew the business into a $1 billion company with 16 dealerships at 13 locations across the Washington, D.C., metro area. Upon Rosenthal’s retirement […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: LINDSAY BERRY WINTER
A Hampton Roads native, Winter is the head of public policy in Virginia for Amazon, overseeing the e-commerce giant’s economic and community investments in Virginia, where it has its East Coast HQ2 headquarters in Arlington County. Since 2010, Amazon has reportedly invested more than $109 billion in Virginia through cloud infr[...]
Retail 2024: MICHAEL DAVIS
In January, Davis stepped into the role of CEO at Cort Business Services, a Berkshire Hathaway-owned company that includes Cort Furniture Rental, Cort Trade Show and Events, and other businesses. He succeeded Jeffery Pederson, who retired after having led the company since 2012. Cort has more than 100 offices, rental showrooms [...]
Real Estate 2024: MAGGIE REED
In April 2022, Gilbane Building tapped Reed to lead the business unit for its Richmond office. One of the construction company’s youngest vice presidents, she has managed over $1 billion in contracts during her career. She is responsible for driving sales and supervising more than 70 employees. In July, the Richmond Flying Squ[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2024: THEODORE ‘TED’ COLBERT III
Colbert was named the head of Boeing’s defense, space and security sector in 2022. Colbert restructured the defense program, but Boeing is still years behind schedule on aircraft and tanker deliveries; his unit logged nearly $1 billion in losses in 2023 alone. In January, a Boeing official said that they plan to get the unit [[...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2024: ROY CORBY
Rivers Casino Portsmouth made history in January 2023, becoming the first permanent casino to open in Virginia. The 250,000-square-foot, $340 million casino created 1,300 permanent jobs locally. It had almost $250 million in gaming revenue in its first year of operation, generating an estimated $42 million in state and local tax[...]
Manufacturing 2024: ROBERT H. SPILMAN JR.
Spilman has led Bassett Furniture as CEO since 2000, also becoming the company’s board chairman in 2016. He has been with the home furniture manufacturer and seller for four decades and succeeded his father, Robert H. Spilman Sr., as CEO. The company, with almost 90 locations nationally, reported a 19.6% decrease in net sales [...]
Education 2024: TIMOTHY SANDS
Sands became the land-grant university’s 16th president in 2014 after serving as interim president at Purdue University. He signed a contract in August 2022 to stay on as president through the 2027 academic year. Sands has been leading development of Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus, a $1 billion campus in Alexandria for gr[...]
