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  • ODU economics professor to serve on job recovery panel
    Vinod Agarwal Professor of economics Old Dominion University   Vinod Agarwal, professor of economics, earned his doctoral degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a member of the Governor’s Advisory Board of...
  • Deborah DiCroce to serve on recovery jobs panel
    Deborah M. DiCroce President Tidewater Community College Deborah M. DiCroce has headed Tidewater Community College since May 1998, following nine years as president of Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville. During her tenure, TCC...
  • HREDA director to serve on recovery jobs panel
    Darryl W. Gosnell President and CEO Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance Darryl W. Gosnell became president and CEO of the Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance in October 2008, taking the helm of a business-attraction organization...
  • Opportunity Inc. director member of recovery job panel
    Judy Begland President and CEO Opportunity Inc. Judy Begland joined Opportunity Inc. in September 2003 as president and chief executive officer. Opportunity Inc. is the staff organization to the Hampton Roads Workforce Development Board. Its...
  • Jordan to serve on job recovery panel
    Rodney Jordan Director - community impact One Economy Corp. Think tank director Joe Jordan Foundation Rodney Jordan serves as director - community impact for One Economy Corp., a global nonprofit organization that uses innovative approaches to...
  • Good manners, good ideas prevail at health care panel discussion
    By Michael Schwartz michael.schwartz@insidebiz.com Well aware of the melees that have broken out at recent gatherings focused on health care reform, moderator Cathy Lewis praised the crowd at last week’s Cox Business Executive Discussion...
  • Keith Newby MD, President, Cardiology & Arrhythmia Consultants Inc.
    Keith Newby Sr. MD President, Cardiology & Arrhythmia Consultants Inc. Newby received a degree in biology from Norfolk State University and a medical doctorate from Eastern Virginia Medical School. He completed his internship and residency at...
  • James Dudley MD, Emergency Medicine, Riverside Tappahannock Hospital
    James Dudley MD Emergency Medicine, Riverside Tappahannock Hospital Chairman of the Riverside Medical Group Board of Directors, Dudley is also service line chief of the Tappahannock Division of Riverside Medical Group and a member of the Medical...
  • Barbara Wallace, President and CEO, Virginia Business Coalition on Health
    Barbara Wallace Ed.D. President and CEO, Virginia Business Coalition on Health The coalition that Wallace heads is a statewide, not-for-profit, employer-focused organization that seeks appraoches to workplace wellness and affordable, high-quality...
  • Breakfast with a side of stimulus
    By Michael Schwartz michael.schwartz@insidebiz.com The hundreds of billions of dollars of stimulus money and what those dollars mean for businesses in Hampton Roads was the topic of discussion at the second installment of the Cox Business Executive...
  • Big spending: What’s the payoff?
    The Good, the Bad & the Ugly What will stimulus, recovery and reinvestment mean for businesses in Hampton Roads? Four members of the local business community will discuss the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and what it means...
  • Crisis in consumer confidence hurting the housing market
    Local heavy-hitters tackle issues in panel discussion  By Michael Schwartz michael.schwartz@insidebiz.com A lack of consumer confidence perpetuated by negative news coverage and well-intentioned but to date ineffective government stimulus plans...
  • Breakfast and a Traffic Jam - 12/14 Inside Business
    By Michael Schwartz michael.schwartz@insidebiz.com Hampton Roads dished out some cruel irony in the form of a bridge-tunnel traffic jam to those who attended a transportation panel discussion on the Peninsula last week. It was fitting testament to...
  • Dwight Farmer, Executive Director, Hampton Roads Planning District Commission
    Dwight L. Farmer Executive director Hampton Roads Planning District Commission Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization Dwight Farmer joined the staff of the Southeastern Virginia Planning District Commission in 1978 as chief...
  • Don Goldberg, President D.D. Jones Inc.
    Donald Z. Goldberg President D.D. Jones Transfer and Warehouse Co. Inc. Donald Goldberg has been president of D.D. Jones Transfer and Warehouse Co. Inc., a major trucking and distribution company based in Chesapeake that serves the shipping industry...
  • Philip A. Shucet, President, The Philip A Shucet Company
    Philip A. Shucet President The Philip A. Shucet Co.   After graduating from Virginia Tech in 1972, Philip Shucet went to work for the West Virginia Department of Highways. In 1984, he accepted a position with the Arizona Department of...
  • Pierce Homer, Virginia Secretary of Transportation, State of Virginia
    Pierce R. Homer Secretary of Transportation Commonwealth of Virginia   Pierce R. Homer was reappointed Virginia's secretary of transportation by Gov. Tim Kaine in January 2006, having also served in the position under Gov. Mark Warner. As...
  • Yvonne Miller, State Senator, 5th District of Virginia Chair, State Senate Transportation Committee
    Yvonne B. Miller Senator for the 5th District of Virginia Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee   Yvonne B. Miller, a Democrat, was the first African American woman to serve in the Virginia House of Delegates when she was elected in 1984...
  • Jon Wheeler, President and CEO, Wheeler Interests
    Jon Wheeler President and CEO, Wheeler Interests Wheeler, whose real estate acquisition, development, management and leasing company is headquartered in Virginia Beach, is a real estate executive with 26 years of experience. His company of 32...
  • John DeGruttola, Senior vice president, sales and marketing, Optima Health
    John DeGruttola Senior vice president, sales and marketing, Optima Health DeGruttola has more than 20 years of experience in health care consulting, sales, marketing, advertising, product development and health plan operations. At Optima, he focuses...
  • Nancy Davenport-Ennis, Founder and CEO, National Patient Advocate Foundation and Patient Advocate Foundation
    Nancy Davenport-Ennis Founder and CEO, National Patient Advocate Foundation and Patient Advocate Foundation In 1996, Davenport-Ennis, a cancer survivor, founded two organizations. The National Patient Advocate Foundation is a policy organization...