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Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2023: ISAM GHANIM
In his second year as president and CEO at ChildFund International, Ghanim continues to advance the organization’s mission of improving the well-being of children in some of the world’s poorest places. The 85-year-old international children’s charity has assisted more than 21.1 million children and family members in more t[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: MAX PETERSON
Peterson, who joined AWS in 2012 and started his current role in 2021, has more than 30 years of public sector experience, with stints at Dell and CDW-G. Now he’s guiding the $80.1 billion Amazon.com cloud subsidiary through a variety of high-tech federal projects. So far, AWS landed a spot (along with Google, Microsoft and [&[...]
Telecommunications 2023: MATTHEW J. DESCH
Iridium launched five spare satellites in May, completing its plans to upgrade the resilience of its constellation of communication satellites. It now has 66 operational crosslinked satellites and 14 spares. Iridium’s mobile voice and data satellite communications network is used in ships, planes and land vehicles and for Inte[...]
Hospitality | Tourism 2023: THOMAS J. BALTIMORE JR.
Baltimore joined the lodging real estate investment trust in 2016, shortly before its 2017 spinoff from McLean-based Hilton Worldwide Holdings. He has led the company through some of its toughest times as the pandemic squelched business and leisure travel. Park continues to bounce back from the pandemic-related downturn, reporti[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: D. JAMES BIDZOS
An early advocate of encryption in commercial software, Bidzos is an internet and cybersecurity pioneer. Verisign is the largest internet domain name registry and infrastructure provider. Any address with a .com or .net domain suffix is registered with Verisign. With 350 million registered addresses on its list and 3.5 million m[...]
Real Estate 2023: KIM ROY
From a young age, Roy has been interested in being a builder, and in 2017, she was appointed the first non-family member to lead the 86-year-old company that employs more than 900 workers in the commonwealth. A Virginia Tech alumna with a bachelor’s degree in construction, Roy went to work at Hitt in 1999 as […]
Real Estate 2023: MATT MALONE
Seeking to provide job opportunities to blue-collar workers and skilled tradespeople, Malone started Groundworks in 2016. With more than 700 employees in the state and 4,300 worldwide, Groundworks provides residential foundation and water management solutions, including foundation repair, basement waterproofing, crawl space repa[...]
Real Estate 2023: LAURA D. LAFAYETTE
Established in 1874, RAR is Central Virginia’s largest trade association, serving more than 5,000 Realtors in the region. A Richmond native and a champion for affordable housing, Lafayette has been with the association for more than 16 years and also serves as CEO of the region’s Multiple Listing Service. In 2022, Lafayette [...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: TERRY RYAN
A veteran of the federal technical services market, Ryan stepped in as CEO of the global risk management firm in 2021, following his tenure as its lead director. Ryan has more than 20 years of executive-level experience in the industry, including holding CEO posts at Adroit Systems, VT Group and Tenax Aerospace. He also held [&h[...]
Finance | Insurance 2023: NIGEL MORRIS
Morris plans to be “extremely disciplined” in coming months after a tough year for venture capital, he told TechCrunch in May. But his fintech investment company “remains intensely focused on building lasting, durable businesses.” Morris co-founded Capital One Financial in the early 1990s with Richard Fairbank, who remai[...]
Transportation 2023: KEITH HALL
Previously vice president of TForce’s field operations, Hall took over as president in June, after his predecessor, Paul Hoelting, retired. A Virginia Commonwealth University graduate, Hall started working for Overnite Transportation, which later became UPS Freight, more than 30 years ago. In 2021, Montreal-based TFI Internati[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: ANEESH CHOPRA
In 2014, Chopra co-founded Arlington-based CareJourney, an open-data analytics platform designed to help physicians and provider networks improve health care delivery at lower cost to Medicare and Medicaid patients by better understanding patient demographics and identifying highest-need populations. Between 2009 and 2012, Chopr[...]
