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Martin Agency is Ad Age’s 2023 Agency of Year
Richmond ad firm's clients include UPS, Old Navy, Geico
Richmond advertising firm The Martin Agency has been named Ad Age’s 2023 Agency of the Year, a year after being named as a standout on the trade publication’s A-List. Ad
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Fairfax’s econ dev leader honored by White House
Hoskins receives lifetime achievement award for volunteership
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Fairfax County Economic Development President and CEO Victor Hoskins has a new accolade to add to his list of achievements. Hoskins, who has served in his role in Fairfax County
13th annual Best Places to Work
2023 winners of small, midsize and large categories
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This is the 13th year that Virginia Business has compiled the Best Places to Work in Virginia list in collaboration with Pennsylvania-based Best Companies Group. More than 200 companies applied
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RICHMOND VINCENT JR.
President and CEO, Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, Roanoke
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“Being a CEO is attainable,” Vincent says. “You just have to have the confidence of knowing that you can do it.” That can-do attitude has taken Vincent steadily up the
VICTOR BRANCH
Richmond market president, Bank of America, Richmond
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Hall of Fame member The first African American president of Bank of America’s Richmond region oversees almost 2,000 employees at 25 locations, but Branch began his career as a sociology
FLOYD E. MILLER II
President and CEO, Metropolitan Business League, Richmond
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Before taking over the leadership of Metropolitan Business League, a nonprofit association that supports small, women- and minority-owned businesses in Richmond, Miller worked in human services, education and criminal justice
AISHA BOWE
Founder and CEO, STEMBoard, Arlington
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The daughter of a Bahamian immigrant who worked as a taxi driver in Michigan, Bowe was told by a high school counselor to become a cosmetologist. She decided instead to
CATHY T. WILLIAMS
Business diversity and government administration manager, Ferguson Enterprises Inc., Newport News
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In her two decades at the U.S. subsidiary of British heating and cooling supply distributor Ferguson plc, Williams has made the economic inclusion of women and minorities her mission. “I’m
JOSEPH D. WILKINS
President, Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center, Chesterfield County
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In Halifax County, where Wilkins grew up, people took care of one another, he says. That compassionate culture, plus seeing his father go through rehab after a car accident, inspired
MARCIA CONSTON
President, Tidewater Community College, Norfolk
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Conston saw early on the value that education has for marginalized communities. She knew her goal was “to become someone to effect change in the lives of young people. And