ROBERT S. ‘BOBBY’ UKROP
CHAIRMAN AND CEO, UKROP’S HOMESTYLE FOODS LLC, RICHMOND
Ukrop is a member of the Richmond family that founded and ran Ukrop’s Super Markets for more than 70 years. Started by his parents, the stores were known for their service and quality, growing into a strong hometown brand with loyal customers. Ukrop served as CEO of Ukrop’s Super Markets
for 12 years before he and his brother, Jim, led the family’s sale of the chain in 2010 to Giant-Carlisle, a subsidiary of Netherlands-based Ahold. Te Ukrops retained ownership of their prepared
foods brand, however. And that venture has grown into a portfolio of 800 products sold in grocery stores around the nation. Its products include prepared foods, desserts and the company’s signature White House Rolls. Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods, which employs
450 people and also offers catering services, plans to open a dine-in food hall in Henrico County in November. Ukrop is a graduate of the University of
Richmond and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He served on UR’s board of trustees for 20 years and was inducted into its alumni hall of fame last year. He is a former chairman of the Retail Merchants Association and ChamberRVA.
PAUL WHITE
PRESIDENT AND CEO, STERLING MOTORCARS, STERLING
When Tomas A. Moorehead decided to semi-retire after 34 years leading Sterling Motorcars, he hand- picked his successor. In April 2019, he named White as president and CEO, saying, “He possesses my drive and passion for the community as well as the business.” White has big shoes to fill. Moorehead was a
pioneer in the industry, the first African American to own a Rolls Royce, Lamborghini and McLaren deal- ership. His luxury dealership also maintains ties with its hometown through the Community C.A.R.E. Program, and has donated more than $1.8 million to students, families and charities. White arrived at Sterling with a career full of auto-
motive experience. He was vice president and a partner at the Texas-based Van Tuyl Group Inc. dealership from 2000 to 2007. Executive roles followed at Orr Auto Group, World Auto Group and the CAR Group. Before coming to Sterling, White served as president of the Dallas-Fort Worth AutoNation market.
JOE
WILSON
CEO EMERITUS, PERMATREAT PEST CONTROL, FREDERICKSBURG
After graduating from Washington and Lee University in 1963, Wilson came to Richmond as a junior cost accountant for Reynolds Metals. After a short stint there, he embarked on a new career course, becoming a manager trainee with Orkin Pest Control. For the next 17 years, the Buena Vista native
worked his way up the ladder, eventually becoming a regional vice president responsible for the Midwest region, overseeing 13 states. In 1982 he ran across a business in Fredericksburg, PermaTreat Pest Control, and bought it in a handshake deal. When Atlanta-based Rollings Inc. — parent
company of Orkin, Western Pest Services and others — announced its plans to acquire PermaTreat in 2014, the company had more than 100 employees. Now it has more than 120, serving more than 30,000 customers. Wilson, who serves as CEO emeritus, was a
Fredericksburg City Council member and has been very involved in the community. In 2018, he and his wife gave a $5 million gift to support the Joe and Mary Wilson Community Benefit Fund of Mary Washington Hospital Foundation. Wilson serves on the state board of GO Virginia.
DENNIS WINNETT
PLANT MANAGER, THE HERSHEY CO., STUARTS DRAFT
Before arriving at Te Hershey Co.’s second-largest U.S. plant, located in Stuart’s Draft, Winnett had built a 30-year career in operations management for the food industry. First it was oats, working as a frontline supervisor
in St. Joseph, Missouri, for Quaker Oats in 1986. Ten it was puff cereal for General Mills in Greater Chicago. He followed those jobs with leadership roles at International Multifoods in Kansas City and Golden Oval Eggs/Rembrandt Enterprises in Alabama. A graduate of the University of Southern
Mississippi, Winnett landed at Hershey in 2012, becoming plant manager of its Robinson, Illinois, chocolate factory. He arrived in the chocolatier’s hometown headquarters in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in October 2015, where he spent six months as director of manufacturing excellence. He’s been in Virginia since March 2016, where
Hershey employs more than 1,000 people and is investing in big expansions. Last year, Hershey announced a $104 million,
111,000-square-foot expansion at its Stuarts Draft plant to make penuche and peanut cream to be distributed to other Hershey facilities on the East Coast. Tere was more news in June, when Hershey said it would invest another $135 million for a 90,000-square-foot expansion, creating 110 jobs.
MICHAEL A. WITYNSKI
PRESIDENT AND CEO, DOLLAR TREE STORES INC., CHESAPEAKE
Dollar Tree’s board appointed Witynski in July to succeed CEO Gary Philbin, whose retirement from a 40-year retailing career was announced simulta- neously. A summer transition was underway, with Philbin staying on as a board member and executive until September. Witynski, a graduate of Benedictine University in
Lisle, Illinois, was an internal candidate. He started as senior vice president of stores in 2010, was named chief operating officer in 2015 and two years later added president to his title. While Witynski was COO, Dollar Tree acquired
Family Dollar for $8.5 billion. Dollar Tree operates more than 15,000 stores in nearly every state, report- ing more than $22 billion in revenue last year. Executive Chairman Bob Sasser said of
Witynski, “He helped put in place a broad range of operational and talent initiatives to position our com- pany for an even more successful future, as witnessed by the recent successes at Family Dollar.” Before his time at Dollar Tree, Witynski was
an executive at Supervalu and served as president of Shaw’s Supermarkets.
JACK
WOODFIN
CEO AND PRESIDENT, WOODFIN CO., RICHMOND
Woodfin leads the company his parents founded in 1977, having spent his career at the expanding family business. After earning his electrical engineering degree
from Virginia Military Institute, Woodfin graduated from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in 1995. He went straight to work at Woodfin Oil, working as a retail manager. In 1987, he became chief operating officer and
executive vice president of Woodfin Heating Inc. — where he spent nearly 24 years before being named president and CEO of the company in 2011. Te fol- lowing year, he became board chairman of the Virginia Petroleum Convenience and Grocery Association. Te group credited him with helping amend Virginia’s motor fuels tax laws “for the first time in a generation,” naming him Virginia Oil Man of the Year — an award his late father received posthumously in 2011. Woodfin oversaw the move of the company’s
headquarters from a little east of Richmond, in Mechanicsville, to an 18,000-square-foot warehouse in Richmond’s trendy Scott’s Addition neighborhood in 2015. Woodfin also serves as CEO of a Central Virginia mechanical construction company, EMC.
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