STUART C. SIEGEL
RETIRED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, S&K FAMOUS BRANDS INC., RICHMOND
Siegel began working for the defunct discount menswear retailer 52 years ago. Under his watch, the family company, which got its start with one store in Richmond, expanded to more than 240 stores in 26 states. In 2009, it was forced into bankruptcy, however, a victim of the Great Recession and a heavy debt load. Still, Siegel said, “We had a very positive attitude on the lives of a lot of people over the years.” When times were good, Siegel was generous. In
1994, he donated $7 million in S&K stock and cash to Virginia Commonwealth University, which used the funding to build the Stuart C. Siegel Center bas- ketball arena. He spent 16 years on the university’s board of visitors, as well as serving as rector. “I am proud of the progress that the university
made, and I’m happy to have played some role in that over all of those years,” Siegel said. In 2013, VCU awarded Siegel its highest honor,
the Wayne Medal, for his outstanding service to the university. Two years earlier, Siegel was recognized by the Richmond Jewish Foundation for his contributions to Jewish endowments. He also serves on the board of the Community Foundation for a greater Richmond.
JOHN STALLINGS
FORMER PRESIDENT AND CEO, SUNTRUST, VIRGINIA DIVISION; FORMER PRESIDENT, UNION BANK AND TRUST, RICHMOND
Banking is in Stallings’ DNA. Straight out of Vanderbilt University in 1988, he went to work for National Commerce Financial and went on to have a 30-year career in the financial sector. At National Commerce, he rose to head
the institution’s retail banking operation. When SunTrust Banks bought National Commerce, he eventually became president and CEO of its Virginia operations. In 2017, he was named president of Richmond-based Union Bank & Trust, now Atlantic Union Bank. Stallings held the presidency for less than a year
before his health forced him to take a less demanding role as a part-time senior executive vice president. Ten, just seven months later, he opted for retire- ment. “I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, a relatively rare disease also known as bile duct cancer,” Stallings said at the time. Before his unexpected retirement, Stallings
chaired the Virginia Bankers Association, the annual campaign of the YMCA of Greater Richmond and the annual campaign of the United Way of the Greater Triangle. In 2018, he won a Humanitarian Award from the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities. He currently volunteers for and sup- ports several Virginia-based nonprofits.
JOHN WARNER
FORMER U.S. SENATOR, ALEXANDRIA
Warner, a moderate Republican, was Virginia’s second longest-serving U.S. senator, representing the commonwealth in the U.S. Senate for five terms, from 1979 to 2009. Te nonagenarian is a veteran of World War II and the Korean War who graduated from Washington and Lee University and received his law degree from the University of Virginia. Before he began his Senate career, Warner was
secretary of the Navy during the Nixon administra- tion and, in 1974, headed up the federal government’s American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. He was famously the sixth husband of Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor. As Virginia’s senior U.S. senator, he was
chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, advocating for Virginia’s military instal- lations and shipbuilding industry. He also bucked the GOP on occasion, supporting gun control measures, Roe v. Wade and embryonic stem cell research. In July, Warner donated $150,000 to endow a
new scholarship to train the next generation of lead- ers at the University of Virginia Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. “He believes in bipartisanship, working together
to build trust and solutions, and he loves the University of Virginia, and what it did for him and his life,” said Sorensen Institute Director Larry Roberts.
JOHN O. ‘DUBBY’ WYNNE
RETIRED PRESIDENT AND CEO, LANDMARK COMMUNICATIONS INC., VIRGINIA BEACH
When Wynne retired in 2001 after 27 years at the helm of Landmark Communications, which owned Te Weather Channel and Te Virginian-Pilot, his successor, Decker Anstrom, said Wynne had given “120% of his energy ... to making our company suc- cessful. Now he has chosen to redirect that enormous energy to the people who are closest to him and to the charitable causes he enjoys.” A member of the Cable Hall of Fame for his
work on Te Weather Channel, Wynne has been active in far too many civic and business initia- tives to list here, but a partial inventory includes the Hampton Roads Business Roundtable, the Hampton Roads Community Foundation, the Council on Virginia’s Future and the Virginia Business Higher Education Council. In 2013, he received the Darden Award for
Regional Leadership, which recognizes individuals who have significantly improved life in Hampton Roads. “If you make a living in a community and you’re
profitable and you’re supporting all these jobs, you really almost have an obligation to help the commu- nity be a better place,” he told Te Virginian-Pilot, then added, “Nobody gets recognition for something that lots of other people didn’t contribute to.”
JAMES E. ‘JIM’ UKROP
CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW RICHMOND VENTURES, RICHMOND
Ukrop is a well-known name in Richmond. Te fami- ly’s eponymous supermarkets were a fixture in the city for 75 years. But in 2010, facing stiff new competition, Jim Ukrop and his brother, Robert, sold their grocery store chain and looked for new opportunities. Robert founded Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods, but
Jim went in a different direction, launching a venture capital firm called New Richmond Ventures, or NRV, to raise money from investors to fund mostly local startups. NRV has raised more than $88 million and
funded more than a dozen new businesses since its inception in 2011. Its investments are eclectic, rang- ing from Rockin’ Baby, which makes slings to carry infants, to SVT Robotics, which helps businesses simplify the use of industrial robotics. “We look for companies that we think will solve
a problem that’s never been solved before,” Ukrop says. “We look for something that will create jobs here in Richmond.” “Jim is a futurist in the sense that he understands
societal megatrends that are where the new business growth will come in the future,” says one of his NRV partners. In other words, Ukrop invests in the belief that the future is now.
If you make a living in a
community and you’re profitable, ... you really almost have an obligation to help [it] be a better place.”
JOHN O. “DUBBY” WYNNE
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