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Hospitality | Tourism 2023: MICHAEL GEORGE
FOUNDER, PRESIDENT AND CEO, CRESCENT HOTELS & RESORTS, FAIRFAX
A 40-year hospitality industry veteran, George founded Crescent Hotels & Resorts in 2001. The company operates more than 90 hotels and resorts and more than 250 restaurants and bars in
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Law 2023: CHIDI I. JAMES
PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA STATE BAR; PARTNER, BLANKINGSHIP & KEITH, FAIRFAX
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A partner with Blankingship & Keith, James is a personal injury attorney who handles wrongful death, products liability and inadequate security cases. He began his one-year term as Virginia State
Real Estate 2023: DONALD E. STONE JR.
CEO, DEWBERRY, FAIRFAX COUNTY
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Stone, who has been Dewberry’s chief executive since 2010, oversees a $602.7 million engineering, architecture and construction firm with more than 60 offices nationwide. A 1980 civil engineering graduate of
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Education 2023: GREGORY WASHINGTON
PRESIDENT, GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, FAIRFAX
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A first-generation college graduate, Washington became the first Black president of Virginia’s largest and most diverse public university in 2020. Trained in mechanical engineering at North Carolina State University, Washington
Real Estate 2023: JACKIE THIEL
PRESIDENT, LONG & FOSTER REAL ESTATE, FAIRFAX
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Thiel was appointed president of Long & Foster Real Estate in March, replacing Larry “Boomer” Foster. She has been with the company since 1998 and was executive vice president of
Hospitality | Tourism 2023: JAMES CARROLL
PRESIDENT AND CEO, CRESTLINE HOTELS AND RESORTS, FAIRFAX
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A former Navy fighter pilot with a Harvard MBA, Carroll parlayed his financial management expertise into running one of the largest independent hotel operators in the country. Founded in 2000,
NoVa Forvis partner elected to nonprofit board
Rob Hartnett to serve on Hedge Fund Association board
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Rob Hartnett, a partner at the Tysons location of accountancy firm Forvis, has been elected to the Hedge Fund Association’s board of directors. Hartnett is a tax partner with Forvis’
Defense and defensibility
Amid data centers and defense contractors, deals abound
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When it comes to tech and government contractors, Northern Virginia’s national profile continued to rise in 2022. Arlington County, where Amazon.com Inc.’s multibillion-dollar HQ2 is continuing to take shape in
Navy awards Boeing subsidiary $463M contract
Argon ST will provide manned, unmanned aircraft tech
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Fairfax-based Argon ST Inc. has received a $463 million Navy contract to procure and produce sensor components for fielding in manned and unmanned aircraft, the Pentagon announced Friday. Argon ST
‘Inferiority complex’ no more
Fairfax County becomes major tech hub
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As recently as 30 years ago, few people would have imagined that Fairfax County would grow to contain one of the most robust technology ecosystems in the nation, with thousands