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2022 Virginia 500: Arts | Entertainment | Sports
TONY BENNETT DEAN AND MARKEL FAMILIES MEN’S HEAD BASKETBALL COACH, VIRGINIA CAVALIERS MEN’S BASKETBALL, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE BRIDGETTE C. BYWATER VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER, KINGS DOMINION/ CEDAR FAIR ENTERTAINMENT CO., DOSWELL CLAY CAMPBELL PRESIDENT, MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY; PRESIDENT, MID-ATLANTIC REGION, NASCAR, MARTINSVILLE CORAN CAPSHAW FOUNDER, [...]
Manufacturing: NEIL D. WILKIN JR.
Wilkin joined Optical Cable Corp. in 2001 as chief financial officer and senior vice president and became its chairman and CEO in 2003. Wilkin, who holds undergraduate, MBA and law degrees from the University of Virginia, started out as an attorney at McGuireWoods LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he concentrated on merger[...]
Finance/Insurance: JOSEPH W. ‘JOE’ MONTGOMERY
Montgomery is crazy for football. “I think it’s one of the best sports around because of the uniqueness of the camaraderie, the teammates, the working together,” says the former All-American William & Mary football team co-captain who played center under coach Lou Holtz. Montgomery was invited to the Philadelphia Eagle[...]
2022 Virginia 500: Nonprofits | Philanthropy
SHERRIE ARMSTRONG PRESIDENT AND CEO, COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER RICHMOND, RICHMOND JACK DYER ‘J.D.’ CROUCH II PRESIDENT AND CEO, UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, ARLINGTON COUNTY DEBORAH M. DiCROCE PRESIDENT AND CEO, HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, NORFOLK ISAM GHANIM PRESIDENT AND CEO, CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL, RICHMOND TED HART PRESIDENT […][...]
Arts/Entertainment/Sports: DAN SNYDER
The notorious co-owner of the Washington Commanders has had a rough two years, coming under NFL and congressional scrutiny for the team’s allegedly “toxic workplace culture,” including accusations of sexual harassment by Snyder himself. After becoming majority owner of the NFL team in 1999, Snyder last year became its sole[...]
Retail/Wholesale: MICHAL LAGUNIONEK
A native of Poland, Lagunionek has maintained a low profile since moving to the United States to start work in June 2021 as president and CEO of Lidl US, the U.S. arm of the German discount grocery chain. Even when headlines broke that Lidl US had named its fourth leader since the German discounter established […]
Retail/Wholesale: POUL WEIHRAUCH
In September, Weihrauch takes over as CEO of Mars Inc., the privately held global candy and pet food manufacturer known for brands like M&Ms. Formerly global president for Mars Petcare, the company’s pet food manufacturing and veterinary care division, Weihrauch has big shoes to fill. During the eight-year tenure of his pr[...]
Federal Contractors/Technology: MARK P. MARRON
Marron joined ePlus Inc. in 2005 as senior vice president of sales after spending four years at NetIQ, where he served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and services. He became ePlus’ chief operating officer in 2010, rising to president and CEO six years later. Marron joined ePlus’ board in 2018. Founded in 1990, [[...]
Finance/Insurance: FREDRICK D. ‘FRED’ SCHAUFELD
After graduating from Lehigh University in 1981, Schaufeld took a job selling extended warranties to auto dealers. When he learned his employer hadn’t actually taken out policies on all his clients, Schaufeld went into business for himself, working directly with the insurance company and dealers. That adventure led to Schaufel[...]
Real Estate: ROBB ‘R.J.’ JOHNSON
Johnson closes deals in the mid-Atlantic region for commercial real estate company JLL and its offices in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. In February, JLL announced it was moving its Northern Virginia office from Vienna to McLean, on Tysons Boulevard. Johnson, who holds a bachelor’s degree in political scie[...]
Finance/Insurance: JAMES SCHENCK
Schenck learned to fly as a teen, flew Black Hawk helicopters in the Army and remains an avid pilot today. “All the normal decisions I have to make on a daily basis, they’re in the background,” Schenck says of flying in a video for PenFed, where he’s worked since 2001. Whether it’s taking time to […]
Finance/Insurance: H. HITER HARRIS III
Initially, Harris followed in the commercial banking footsteps of his father and grandfather. But in 1991, Harris blazed his own trail, partnering with Christopher Williams, a Harvard business school friend, to launch Harris Williams, a global investment bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions of middle market companies. T[...]
