Nhu Yeargin was born in Vietnam. Her father and mother are Chinese. Her first languages were Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. She is still fluent in Cantonese. “I speak it every day,” she says. She lived [Read More…]
Meet an entrepreneur whose accomplishments extend beyond her work and her family to her impact on local communities. Swann is president of TowneBank’s Peninsula and Williamsburg markets. She also serves on the Virginia Commonwealth University’s [Read More…]
“I love the dynamic of helping people with housing needs. When someone needs to buy or sell, it’s usually an immediate need — timing is important. Knowing I can provide peace of mind for clients and guide [Read More…]
When Yan Le Gouellec talks about water, it’s like listening to Willy Wonka talk about candy. Le Gouellec is excited by water and all that it means to a city. Water is his passion, and [Read More…]
“I told my wife, ‘There’s one thing I’m not going to do, and that’s sell life insurance,’” says Frank Belvin, financial advisor at Edward Jones Financial Services. Belvin’s very next job was as a Chartered [Read More…]
Matt Nations, branch leader with BB&T now Truist, hasn’t experienced a typical career trajectory. Nations was born and raised in Williamsburg, where he worked his first job as a country club water boy. In addition [Read More…]
Anna Hagenberger commutes every day from Ocean View to Port Warwick. “The traffic is not that bad,” she insists, “except in the summer.” Hagenberger’s whole career as a registered vascular technologist (nine years) has been [Read More…]
Sometimes, people end up in the exact right career. They are excited by it, passionate about it and dedicated to it. That is exactly what happened when Kaéra Mims discovered the field of real estate. [Read More…]
As chief operating officer and partner with PBMares, Mary Aldrich has a full day. The company is in the top 100 certified public accountant consulting firms in the United States. “And this year has been [Read More…]
Look up “problem solver” in the dictionary, and you will find a perfect description of Joe Lieberman. Lieberman, founder and president of Peninsula Data Service Center, is a man who loves a challenge. He can [Read More…]
From the time we were little, very little was discussed publicly about matters of the bowels. Going “number 1 or number 2” was an easy way for children to communicate. However, with maturity, this uninhibited [Read More…]
Dr. Joel Stewart had not planned on being a doctor. But, after noticing his strong abilities in a chemistry class, a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy suggested he look into medicine. He did, and [Read More…]
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