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Health Care | Biotech | Pharmaceuticals 2025: REESE JACKSON

Since 2016, Jackson has led Chesapeake Regional , which includes the Chesapeake Regional Center and more than 40 practice locations, as well as about 600 physicians serving Hampton Roads.

In early April, the hospital opened a psychiatric emergency room, the first on Hampton Roads’ south side, and at the end of the month, the hospital had its first open-heart surgery after a five-year fight for the state’s permission.

In January, a federal grand jury indicted Chesapeake Regional Medical Center for fraud and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and interference with government functions. A lawyer for the hospital entered a not guilty plea to the charges, which are related to alleged reimbursements from health care benefit programs for alleged unnecessary surgical procedures by a doctor who was convicted of health care fraud and false statements in health care matters in 2020. An evidentiary hearing was scheduled in August.

Previously, Jackson led Forbes Regional Hospital in Pennsylvania. He holds degrees from Texas Tech University, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond’s law school.

FAVORITE TEAMS: Texas Tech Red Raiders. Guns up! Wreck ’em! Kansas City Chiefs (as long as Mahomes is the QB) and Coco Gauff (bringing joy to U.S. tennis).

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Hospitality | Tourism 2025: CHRIS ALBRECHT

In 2022, Albrecht assumed his current post overseeing the Danville casino, which opened in December 2024. The $800 million Caesars Virginia resort, with 1,200 employees, is the third permanent casino to open in the state, although a temporary venue was previously in operation.

The property includes more than 90,000 square feet of space, with 1,500 slot machines, 79 live-action table games, 48 electronic table games, a poker room and Caesars Sportsbook. The casino resort also has a 320-room hotel, a spa, a pool and hot tub, and 50,000 square feet of meeting and convention space that doubles as a 2,500-seat live entertainment venue. It reported $240.1 million in 2024 revenue.

Albrecht has been with Caesars Entertainment for 20 years and was general manager at Harrah’s Philadelphia Casino and Racetrack, a Caesars property, for six years. He has also worked at in Indiana, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Las Vegas.

Albrecht earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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Health Care | Biotech | Pharmaceuticals 2025: DR. DAVID S. JEVSEVAR

In 2022, Jevsevar became CEO of OrthoVirginia, the largest independent orthopedic practice in the state, with 155-plus orthopedic specialist physicians across more than 35 locations in Lynchburg, Northern Virginia, Richmond, Southwest Virginia and Hampton Roads. The practice, which is the official orthopedic and sports provider of the Washington Commanders, turns 10 this year.

An orthopedic surgeon with more than three decades of experience, Jevsevar specializes in hip and knee replacements. He holds an undergraduate degree from Saint Vincent College in Pennsylvania, a degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from Auburn University.

In September 2024, OrthoVirginia opened a $50 million, 77,000-square-foot location in Chesterfield County’s Watkins Centre. The building has physician clinics, a pain management procedure suite and an on-site operatory center, plus physical therapy, hand therapy and MRI capabilities.

Jevsevar, who served in the U.S. Air Force, was previously chair and regional vice president of orthopedics for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics in New Hampshire and associate professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He also worked as medical director of the orthopedic clinical program for Intermountain in Utah.

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Hospitality | Tourism 2025: DOUG BRADBURN

One of the most visited historic estates in the nation, Mount Vernon receives about 1 million visitors annually.

Bradburn is 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 in 2023 and will stretch to 2026, includes designing and installing a new HVAC system and improving drainage in and around the mansion’s cellar.

In June, Mount Vernon unveiled a new permanent exhibit focused on the lives of the 317 enslaved people who lived on the estate.

Bradburn has been with Mount Vernon since 2013, when he joined as the founding director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. He became president and CEO of the estate owned and maintained by The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association in 2018.

Bradburn, who has a doctorate in history from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, is an author and a scholar of early American history. He chaired the history department at the State University of New York at Binghamton before joining Mount Vernon.

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2025 Living Legends: HOLTZMAN, WILLIAM B. ‘BILL’

Holtzman started his oil distribution business in 1972, purchasing Nelson Oil Co. According to the company’s history, Holtzman borrowed $37,000 from First Virginia Bank by using his Ford Thunderbird as collateral. He continued working at Turkey Knob Orchards, the Byrd family’s apple production business in Mount Jackson, while spending nights and weekends building the oil company. Holtzman Oil now provides oil and propane to more than 150 gas stations and is part of the larger Holtzman Corp., which includes propane, heating oil, ice manufacturing and other divisions.

Today, Holtzman is equally known for his civic engagement, and in July 2024, the town of Mount Jackson declared July 9 “Bill Holtzman Day.” Holtzman sits on the powerful statewide Virginia Growth & Opportunity Board, the 24-person body that oversees the state’s GO Virginia regional councils and allocates grants for economic development projects. He also served on the Shenandoah County School Board, the Shenandoah University board and Mount Jackson Town Council.

A 1959 graduate of Virginia Tech, where the Holtzman Alumni Center is named for him, Holtzman was appointed to Tech’s board of visitors in 2023. He chaired Tech’s $1.11 billion fundraising campaign that concluded in 2011.

Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: KATE MORA

Kroger tapped Mora to lead its mid-Atlantic division in 2024. She joined Kroger in 2022 as vice president on special assignment supporting End-to-End Fresh, an initiative designed to get the freshest food to shoppers, and became vice president for merchandising in its Michigan division.

Before joining Kroger, Mora worked for more than 26 years at Walmart, leaving in 2021 as a vice president. Mora holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

Kroger’s mid-Atlantic division operates more than 100 stores in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio, staffed by about 18,000 associates. It has 68 stores in Virginia, but two stores in Charlottesville and Abingdon are closing in August and September, part of a larger plan to shutter 60 stores nationally. In 2024, unionized Kroger employees in the Richmond and Hampton Roads regions ratified a new three-year contract.

In 2022, Kroger and Albertsons Cos. announced plans for a $24.6 billion merger agreement, but it was blocked in court late last year. Now the two grocers are locked in dueling lawsuits in Delaware Chancery Court.

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Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: ARIE KOTLER

An Israeli native, Kotler has led Arko, the nation’s sixth largest convenience store chain and parent company of GPM Investments, since 2020, when it merged with Haymaker Acquisition Corp. II to become a U.S.-listed public company. He founded GPM in 2003, sold the business in 2006 and reacquired it in 2011.

The company has been on an M&A journey in recent years, expanding from 200 convenience store sites in 2013 to approximately 3,600 company-operated stores as of March. It ranked No. 488 on the 2025 Fortune 500 list and has more than 11,000 employees. Arko brought in $20.8 million in net income in fiscal 2024, down from the nearly $35 million reported the previous year.

In September 2024, Reuters reported Arko was planning to divest its convenience store operations in a potentially $2 billion deal,

a reversal from its M&A growth strategy. However, in a March earnings call, Kotler denied the company is planning to sell its convenience stores.

This year, Arko is building new food- focused convenience stores, with a rollout of eight pilot stores in the Richmond area. The first opened in Ashland in late June.

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Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: EUNHONG ‘EDWARD’ MIN

In February, StarKist announced Min had been appointed president and CEO of the food company that produces the iconic single-serve tuna pouches as well as other salmon-, chicken-, and beef-based products. StarKist is a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Dongwon Industries Co.

Min succeeded Young Choi, who was announced as the company’s new leader in December 2023. With decades of leadership roles in sales, marketing and business strategy, Min had previously served as CEO of Dongwon Industries since December 2022. He also previously held leadership roles as executive vice president at both Dongwon Industries and Dongwon Systems.

Prior to that, Min spent nearly 30 years at Procter & Gamble, where he held leadership positions in Asia, including senior sales director and commercial leader for core Asian markets in Singapore.

Min earned his business degree from Yonsei University in South Korea and completed the Advanced Management Program at Seoul National University.

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Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: GEORGE L. HOLM

Holm became Performance Food Group’s leader in 2008 after more than four decades in the foodservice distribution industry, with leadership roles at Sysco, US Foods, Alliant Foodservice and Vistar. He became president and CEO of PFG when the Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management purchased PFG and merged it with a subsidiary of Vistar, where Holm was president and CEO, in a $1.4 billion deal.

PFG is No. 80 on the 2025 Fortune 500 and No. 272 on the Fortune Global 500, with $58.28 billion in net sales reported in fiscal 2024.

The company, which employs about 37,000 people, went public in 2015, and Holm became its board chairman in 2019. PFG delivers food products to more than 300,000 locations in the United States and Canada, including , businesses, schools, theaters and retailers. In October 2024, PFG acquired Florida-based food

distributor Cheney Brothers, which generates about $3.2 billion in annual revenue.

Reports surfaced in early July that US Foods is exploring an acquisition of PFG, which would create the largest

U.S. foodservice distributor, with roughly $100 billion in combined revenue.

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Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025:: E. YURI HERMIDA

As a result of Sauer Brands’ acquisition by private equity firm Advent International from Falfurrias Capital Partners this year, Hermida became CEO of the 138-year-old condiments and seasonings company in March. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Bloomberg valued it at approximately $1.5 billion.

Hermida most recently was executive vice president and chief growth and strategy officer for Constellation Brands, an alcoholic beverage company based in New York.

He previously served as president of consumer packaged food company Sovos Brands, known for Rao’s Homemade, Noosa Yoghurt and Michael Angelo’s, and was chief growth officer before that.

Prior to joining Sovos, he was executive vice president of Reckitt, a multinational health, hygiene and nutrition producer, where he oversaw the company’s multibillion- dollar North American hygiene business. Hermida also previously held management positions at Procter & Gamble.

Sauer Brands was founded in Richmond as The C.F. Sauer Co. in 1887. It produces condiments, spices, seasonings and extracts. The company has manufacturing facilities in Richmond, South Carolina, Kansas and California and is most famous for Duke’s Mayonnaise, Kernel Season’s, The Spice Hunter, Mateo’s Gourmet Salsa and Sauer’s.

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