RUTH ‘PAIGE’ CLAY SENIOR PARTNER, MID-SOUTH MARKET, MERCER LLC; IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR, VIRGINIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, RICHMOND
Aside from her duties at Mercer, which employs just under 100 people in Virginia among its 25,000 employees worldwide, Clay just completed her tenure as board chair of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, and she continues to serve on the board’s executive committee.
A Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth University alum who joined the human resources and operations firm a decade ago, Clay manages several of Mercer’s largest clients in industries includ- ing manufacturing, health care, higher education, and insurance
MARK ELLENBOGEN ATLANTIC ASSURANCE REGIONAL MANAGING PARTNER, BDO USA LLP, McLEAN
Ellenbogen has more than 20 years of experience in public accounting since earning his undergraduate degree in business and his postgraduate diploma in accounting at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
In his current role, Ellenbogen oversees
assurance practices in eight offices, reaching from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Philadelphia. He is responsible for developing growth strate- gies, managing client services, guiding staff development and recruiting. Having been with the firm since 1997, Ellenbogen was previously the managing partner of BDO’s greater Washington, D.C., office, and he has served on BDO’s board since 2019. BDO USA is one of the nation’s largest accounting firms, bringing in more than $1.8 billion in revenue in 2020, an 11.3% year-over-year increase. It was the eighth consecutive year of growth for the firm, and the assurance business line grew by 6% during the 2020 fiscal year. Ellenbogen is a member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board of directors.
TIMOTHY H. GILLIS WASHINGTON METRO AREA MANAGING PARTNER AND CHESAPEAKE MARKET HUB LEADER, KPMG LLP, McLEAN
With roughly 2,200 employees in Virginia, KPMG brought in $29.22 billion in revenue in the 2020 fiscal year, only a small decrease from the previous year, despite the pandemic. Gillis oversees the global Big Four accounting firm’s Chesapeake market hub, which includes Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
He has spent his career at the heights of corporate America and describes himself as very competitive, but Gillis knows how to disconnect and recharge. He began practicing yoga during the pandemic, and he recently published his second book of poetry. Gillis serves on the board governing the Washington Nationals’ phil- anthropic projects and the George Mason University Foundation board, while also performing other volunteer leadership roles.
WHAT A COMPETITOR WOULD SAY ABOUT ME: He loves to compete. He loves to win. He wants to take the game-deciding shot.
FAVORITE SONG: “Lovely Day,” by Bill Withers
WHAT I’VE LEARNED: Ten words: Love God. Love others. With passion. All of your life.
SOMETHING I WOULD NEVER DO AGAIN: Eat eggplant, if I can avoid it.
and financial services. She previously worked in customer relations and human resources at Capital One Financial Corp. Mercer weathered the pandemic by “proactively bringing solutions to our clients and prospects to help them pivot quickly in their time of need,” Clay says. A dedicated bookworm, she reads an average of three books a week.
BEST ADVICE FOR OTHERS: Be authentic and make an impact.
NEW LIFE EXPERIENCE: Becoming a grandmother and living on the water
FIRST JOB: Waitress
HOBBY/PASSION: I love to read, snow ski and enjoy the beach. My passion is travel, as I was an Army brat as a kid. I want to go to every country on the planet in my lifetime.
THEODORE ‘TED’ HANSON PRESIDENT AND CEO, ASGN INC., GLEN ALLEN
Hanson started out in 1998 as a corporate controller at Apex Systems, one of the country’s fastest-growing information technology staffing firms, and Hanson had risen to chief financial officer by the time it was acquired by ASGN in 2012. Hanson stayed on as CFO aſter the acquisition, and in 2019, he was appointed ASGN’s CEO. The company relocated from California to Henrico
last year, reporting more than $1 billion in revenues for the first quarter of 2021, a 3.6% increase from the same period the previous year. In September 2020, ASGN announced the acquisi- tion of Boston-based consulting firm LeapFrog Systems, and in December 2020 the firm acquired Tampa-based Integrated Solutions Management Inc. This summer, ASGN acquired Reston-based Indrasoſt and Fairfax-based Enterprise Resource Performance Inc. Hanson holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting
from Virginia Tech, and he earned his MBA at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also is on the executive committee of Virginia Tech’s Apex Center for Entrepreneurs.
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