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Real Estate 2025: RONALD LAUSTER
PRESIDENT, W.M. JORDAN CO., NEWPORT NEWS
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Ron Lauster at WM Jordan
Ron Lauster at WM Jordan
Real Estate 2025: RONALD LAUSTER
PRESIDENT, W.M. JORDAN CO., NEWPORT NEWS
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
President since 2018, Lauster manages a wide array of projects at the firm with $725 million in fiscal 2024 revenue. W.M. Jordan took on the second phase of the Norfolk-based Nauticus renovation
and expansion, and Old Dominion University’s $184 million biological sciences building, the university’s largest academic building now under construction, for which the company says it won a $142 million contract. In October 2024, construction started on the $107 million Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital; W.M. Jordan says it received a $90 million contract for the project.
Lauster also was an adjunct professor at Tidewater Community College, where he volunteered on several advisory committees and is an alum himself.
A graduate of the Civic Leadership Institute in Hampton Roads, he earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering technology from Old Dominion University and graduated from Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He serves on the boards of the Hampton Roads Chamber and Virginia Chamber of Commerce and is vice chair of Bon Secours Hampton Roads Foundation’s board.
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