“It’s not about me as an agent, but about the program, the education and people who need it,” Sonja Mitchell, Family and Consumer Sciences agent in Newport News’ Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) Office, says of [Read More…]
Ellen Latham’s lifelong passion for fitness led her to create Orangetheory Fitness (OTF) in 2010, with partners David Long, Jerome Kern and David Hardy. OTF believes in changing the world one heartbeat at a time. [Read More…]
New Hampshire native Rebecca Neill, BS, QDDP, MHRT/c, met and married Jamie in Massachusetts. His Marine Corp career took them and their four children around the United States. Their adopted daughter was diagnosed with mild [Read More…]
In 1969, Dr. J. Robert Beyster, a nuclear physicist, Navy veteran and PhD in nuclear physics, wanted to do research in a productive environment with talented scientists and engineers addressing issues of national importance. Science [Read More…]
Growing up in rural Michigan, Gary Warren’s best entrepreneurial influence were his parents. “Mom and Dad opened a waterfront family restaurant when I was 11,” he says. “When I hire people who worked for a [Read More…]
“Community is key to Gather’s success,” says Savannah Bolin, regional director. “We’re not just another office space. We really bring people together.” Small business consultants Doug and Polly White wanted a professional, inspiring space to [Read More…]
“My dad is my hero,” says Mike Melo, CEO and president of ITA International, of his Air Force fighter pilot father who served in Korea and Vietnam. California native Melo grew up with four brothers [Read More…]
“I was always outside digging in the dirt and collecting rocks,” Rebecca Kleinhample, executive director of Virginia Living Museum (VLM), says of her Pennsylvania childhood. “Now, I marry my experience and skills with my love [Read More…]
Jim Bostaph, owner of Black Goose Chimney which opened in 1993, found this new line of work in Hampton Roads after working as a real estate agent his first eight years here. After his and [Read More…]
Virginia Tech (VT) just brought its premier solutions for the educational opportunities of working professionals to Newport News’ Tech Center. VT Hampton Roads Center’s (VTHRC) new location offers an array of educational opportunities. Susan Johnstad, [Read More…]
Ohio native, Larry Gordley, originally wanted to go to the Air Force Academy, but color blindness and severe astigmatism squelched his dream. He was captain of his high school football, track and wrestling team. “I [Read More…]
“I have a level of expertise born from 30 years in this business,” Alonzo R. Bell, Jr., CCIM, principal broker of Randolph Real Estate Services Company, says. “Our goal is to provide a full range [Read More…]
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