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LIVING LEGENDS


FRANK BATTEN JR. CHAIRMAN, DOMINION ENTERPRISES, NORFOLK


Batten’s 13-year quest to sell his family’s newspaper holdings was accomplished in May 2021, when Paxton Media Group announced it was purchasing the Landmark Community Newspaper group of 47 daily and weekly newspapers.


Landmark had previously sold off The Virginian-Pilot


and The Roanoke Times, where Batten once worked as a reporter and as an advertising rep aſter earning a history degree from Dartmouth College. He also holds an MBA from U.Va.’s Darden School of Business.


Batten rose through the ranks at Landmark Communi- cations to become CEO of the family business, deciding in


2008 to sell its media holdings. The Weather Channel was sold that year for $3.5 billion to NBC and private equity firms, but selling the newspapers proved slower. Batten was more interested in technology than ink.


He was the largest investor in soſtware company Red Hat, and his $3 million investment at one point was worth $2.5 billion.


Batten is chairman of Dominion Enterprises, which focuses on marketing and soſtware services for the automotive and hospitality industries, and he is also pres- ident of the Landmark Foundation and a member of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation board of trustees.


GEORGE Y. BIRDSONG CEO AND GENERAL COUNSEL, BIRDSONG CORP., SUFFOLK


The Birdsong Corp. and the Birdsong family have been shelling peanuts and funding humanitarian efforts for five generations. Since 1999, George Y. Birdsong has led the 107-year-old family company. The family began


shelling peanuts in the 1930s, and when their factory burned down in 1939, Planters Peanuts founder Amedeo Obici asked the Birdsongs to relocate near his facility in Suffolk. Each generation has followed Birdsong Corp. founder T.H. Birdsong into the business, and now three generations of Birdsongs are involved in its management. A Suffolk native, George Y. Birdsong attended Washington and


Lee University and then studied law at the University of Virginia. He and his late wife, Sue, supported numerous philanthropies in their region and were involved in several civic, education and preserva- tion organizations.


The Birdsong Corp. has six shelling plants, and it buys, processes and stores billions of pounds of peanuts each year. Its charity, Peanut Proud Inc., has partnered with Project Peanut Butter to support hunger relief and to help treat severe malnutrition.


JOHN BRODERICK PRESIDENT EMERITUS, OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY, NORFOLK


RAMON W. BREEDEN JR. PRESIDENT AND CEO, THE BREEDEN CO., VIRGINIA BEACH


Breeden worked his way through the University of Virginia and took a job teaching math before starting his real estate development com- pany in 1961, working out of the trunk of a Pontiac convertible and the back room of a grocery store. Within 15 years, Breeden would be listed among the top 500 build- ers in the nation, and he hasn’t looked back. This year, his company announced a $2.4 million, 6,500-square-foot expansion of its Virginia Beach headquarters, and it broke ground on the company’s largest apartment complex to date, the $66 million Pinnacle Apartments in Virginia Beach. At 87, Breeden still pilots his corporate jet and helicopters, and he


oversees a company with more than 15,000 apartments and 2 million square feet of retail and office space. Over the years, he co-founded Commerce Bank, which was pur- chased by Branch Bank & Trust, and he then served as a state director of BB&T, now part of Truist Financial Group. Breeden also served on U.Va.’s McIntire Foundation board, as well as boards for the Tidewater Builders Association, Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Alliance, and Virginia Beach Education Foundation.


In June, Broderick retired as ODU’s longest- serving president, returning to faculty status as the board of visitors distinguished lecturer in the Darden College of Education and Professional Studies.


As a journalism student at Northeastern University in Boston, Broderick aspired to cover the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics, until he found a new path that brought him to Old Dominion in 1993 as its public information director. He rose through the ranks, becoming the university’s president in 2008. During his tenure, ODU raised nearly $1 billion, including its largest single giſt of $37 million, donated by Richard and Carolyn Barry in 2016 to establish the Barry Art Museum, and Mark and Tammy Strome’s $11 million donation in 2013 to establish the Strome Entrepreneurial Center and name the Strome College of Business. Broderick also has championed inclusion and diversity, reorganizing ODU’s Office of Affirmative Action into the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity. Football also returned to ODU in 2009 aſter a 69-year absence. Broderick is former chair of the Council of Presidents of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, Virginia Council of Presidents of colleges and universities, and Conference USA’s board of directors. He also served on the NCAA board of directors.


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