The Big Book: Most Influential Virginians
Tom Monahan Chairman and CEO, CEB, Arlington
Monahan leads fast-growing CEB. It provides business intelligence to more than 10,000 companies (including more than 90 percent of the
Fortune 500 firms) to help manage their human resources, customer service and operations. With more than $1 billion in annual revenue, the company last year acquired Quebec City-based Wanted Technologies, a provider of analytics for human resources professionals; San Fran- cisco-based Sunstone Analytics, whose technology screens résumés; and the Aus- tralian CEO Forum Group, which includes executives of foreign-owned companies doing business in Australia. CEB, which Monahan has led since 2005, is consolidat- ing its headquarters operations into what will be known as CEB Tower, occupying 15 of the tower’s 31 stories. Monahan is on the boards of Convergys Corp. and PeaceTech Lab. Monahan was an under- graduate student at Harvard University in 1986. Although he can’t recall exactly what he was doing that year, he was “probably listening to [British pop groups] Lloyd Cole and the Commotions and/or The Style Council while I was doing it,” he says.
Anthony J. Moraco CEO, SAIC, McLean
Tony Moraco has led SAIC since it was spun off from its parent company (now known as Leidos Holdings) in September 2013. Since then, the government services company has increased its revenues and workforce.
For the first three
quarters of fiscal year 2016, revenues were up 11 percent to $3.2 billion. Last year, SAIC purchased for $790 million Reston- based Scitor Corp., to expand SAIC’s intel- ligence and Air Force business. The company also increased its con-
tract awards in 2015, expanding business from the Federal Aviation Administration, General Services Administration and NASA. SAIC added about 2,500 employ- ees last year and expects to hire more in 2016.
Moraco is on the College of Engi- neering Advisory Board at Virginia Tech (where he is an alum) and the boards of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and Operation Homefront, a Sterling-based nonprofit that provides emergency assis- tance to military families.
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He chairs the steering committee of the Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics, which promotes ethical conduct among companies serving the U.S. military. In 1986, Moraco was working as a photogrammetrist and software engineer on a Tomahawk Cruise Missile project for government contractor Autometric Inc. Photogrammetry is the science of making measurements from photographs.
Christopher J. Nassetta
President and CEO, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., McLean
Nassetta continues to keep his brand on top of the inno- vation curve with initiatives in areas as diverse as energy management and paternal
leave. Hilton employees who are new par- ents get 10 weeks of paid time off. Plus, the company rolled out its newest brand in January, Tru by Hilton, a midscale-sector hotel chain aimed at the millennial market. Last year, Nassetta was inducted into the Hospitality Industry Hall of Honor at the University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Manage- ment. Hilton Worldwide has expanded to more than 100 countries and in 2015 wel- comed more than 140 million visitors to the more than 4,500 properties in its port- folio. Thirty years ago, Nassetta was work- ing his way through the ranks at the Oliver T. Carr Co., in Washington, D.C., where he helped oversee the renovation of the his- toric Willard Hotel.
Phebe Novakovic
Chairman and CEO, General Dynamics, Falls Church
In 1986, Novakovic left the CIA to pursue an MBA at The Wharton School at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, according to Fortune maga-
zine. Today, she continues to shun the spotlight as CEO of General Dynamics, the largest defense contractor in Virginia and one of the largest in the world. Novakovic has streamlined the company, returning it to profitability and boosting revenues. She joined the company in 2001 and became chairman and CEO in 2013. In 2015, Gen- eral Dynamics reported revenues of $31.5 billion and a profit of almost $3 billion. Just three years ago, the company had reported a loss of $332 million. General Dynamics makes Abrams tanks and Gulf- stream business jets and is one of two builders (with Newport News-based Hun- tington Ingalls Industries) of nuclear-pow- ered submarines. She was No. 10 on For- tune magazine’s “Most Powerful Women” list last year.
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