100 PEOPLE TO MEET IN 2021 | New Folks
Stan Little Chief experience officer, United Way Worldwide
Alexandria
Now more than ever, the United Way is being sought to provide support for community efforts to aid those affected by the global pandemic. Former SunTrust Foundation President Stan Little, who has a background in systems engineering, took his new role in February during a wave of companies and organizations hiring CXOs to improve interactions between customers and employees. The nonprofit United Way Worldwide helps coordinate a network of 1,800 autonomous community-based United Way chapters worldwide, 25 of which are located in Virginia. Little leads all donor-facing functions for United Way Worldwide, which annually has nearly 3 million volunteers and raises nearly $5 billion from than 8 million donors. The former Georgia State University business professor has also been an adviser to the Federal Communications Commission and The College Board.
Peter Phillips Director of customer and
regulatory relations for Virginia, Exacta Systems Richmond
2020 has been about as predictable as a game of blackjack, but that hasn’t stopped the Virginia Lottery and other gaming organizations from posting significant profits this year. In October, Peter Phillips, a disabled veteran with 25 years of service as a naval special warfare officer, became the Virginia director of customer and regulatory relations for Boynton Beach, Florida-based Exacta Systems (which also has a Henrico County office). The company sells historic horse race software and machines to businesses including Colonial Downs Group and its four Rosie’s Gaming Emporium locations statewide. Colonial Downs is poised to generate more than $26 million in state tax revenue and nearly $18 million in local tax revenue this year, according to the company, and annually generates $25 million for the horse racing industry. As the legal gaming industry continues to grow in Virginia, Exacta Systems announced plans in October to increase hiring.
Mark Nantz President and CEO,
Valley Health System Winchester
Brett Malone President and CEO, Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center
Blacksburg
Brett Malone is a prime product of the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, where he started his first software company, Blacksburg-based Phoenix Integration, in 1996. And now he serves as the research center’s president and CEO. The “triple Hokie,” who earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Virginia Tech, has plans to expand the CRC, a space for research and development for tech companies, through investments in more lab space, biotech building construction and industry partnerships, he says. A Northern Virginia expansion (where Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus is being built) is another top priority for 2021. “The entrepreneurial researcher … we really cater to that phenotype,” he says. “We think there’s opportunity to expand that model.”
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For Mark Nantz, getting to know his 6,500-member team of caregivers following his June appointment as president and CEO of Valley Health System was a little different — but the welcome was just as warm (think masks, elbow bumps and Zoom meetings). After all, Nantz says, “the COVID pandemic has changed much about the way we provide care, how our community views health care workers … and even the way we live.” At the Winchester-based health care system, Nantz oversees six hospitals and 50 medical practices that collectively serve more than 500,000 people in the Shenandoah Valley. Despite the pandemic, the former Atlantic group president for Bon Secours Mercy Health anticipates that services will continue to grow during 2021, he says.
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