TODD P. HAYMORE


MANAGING DIRECTOR, GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, COMMERCE & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS PRACTICE, HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP, RICHMOND


In his current role, the former Virginia secretary of commerce and trade helps businesses navigate gov- ernment roadblocks to growth and development. A Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Richmond graduate, Haymore previously worked in state government under three different governors, also serving as secretary of agriculture and forestry and commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. He sits on the Virginia Chamber of Commerce board and on VCU’s board of visitors.


FIRST JOB: At 8, working at my uncle’s leaf tobacco warehouse outside of Danville. I made $20 a week and felt like a millionaire.


WHAT I’VE LEARNED: Have an open mind about all things in life, continue to educate yourself about these things and never stop learning.


FAVORITE SONG: “See a Little Light,” by Bob Mould and “Eyes of the World,” by the Grateful Dead. I’d like to think both reflect the optimism I carry in life.


WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE ABOUT VIRGINIA: I would change Virginia’s single four-year gubernato- rial terms to a single five- or six-year term. Having worked for three governors, I know how difficult it is to set up an administration, develop an agenda and deliver upon it in just four years.


VICTOR HOSKINS


PRESIDENT AND CEO, FAIRFAX


COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, FAIRFAX


When he served as the head of Arlington Economic Development, Hoskins was a catalyst behind landing the $2.5 billion Amazon HQ2 deal. As the leader of the Fairfax EDA, which he joined in 2019, he hit the ground running with a $64 million Microsoft deal to build a 400,000-square-foot software R&D center that will bring 1,500 jobs to the area. Hoskins, who earned his master’s degree in real estate finance and economic development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has the magic touch. Since he arrived, Facebook, Google and Amazon Web Services have been among the companies also open- ing locations in Fairfax.


FIRST JOB WITH A PAY STUB: Assistant manager at a Taco Bell at age 16


WHAT A COMPETITOR WOULD SAY: He is willing to help anyone who asks.


I ADMIRE: James Hankla, former city manager for the city of Long Beach, California. He was a role model and a mentor who helped me forge my career and he fueled my desire to impact the economies of cities to create jobs and opportunities for others.


WHAT I’VE LEARNED: Steady plodding leads to prosperity; speculation leads to poverty.


MAURICE A. JONES


PRESIDENT AND CEO, LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORP., NORFOLK


Kickstarted by the Ford Foundation, New York-based LISC is one of America’s largest nonprofit support organizations for community revitalization, gathering public and private funds to help solve national housing and health needs. Among its 25 regional offices, there are LISC affiliates in Hampton Roads and Richmond. In June, the nonprofit partnered with Kaiser


Permanente to provide more than 2,000 loans between $100,000 and $4 million to black-owned businesses across the country affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Here in Virginia, LISC has announced a partnership with Sentara Healthcare on a $100 million program that addresses area health concerns tied to housing, transportation and job development. A Lunenburg County native, Jones previously


served as Virginia’s secretary of commerce and trade under Gov. Terry McAuliffe. A Rhodes scholar, Jones attended Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Virginia School of Law and was publisher of Te Virginian-Pilot before serving as deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He sits on the U.Va. board of visitors.


TERRY KILGORE


CHAIRMAN, VIRGINIA


TOBACCO REGION REVITALIZATION COMMISSION, GATE CITY


Despite Democrats holding a majority in the General Assembly this year, state legislators reappointed Republican state Del. Kilgore as chairman of the state-funded Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission. Created in 1999 and funded through Virginia’s share of a national settlement with tobacco manufacturers over smoking-related health costs, the commission promotes growth and development in formerly tobacco-dependent locales. In the last two decades, it has issued more than 2,200 grants across Southern and Southwest Virginia totaling more than $1.1 billion. It also has awarded $309 million in payments to tobacco growers. Another initiative is the commission’s tobacco


scholarship fund, which helps former Virginia resi- dent tobacco growers, quota holders and their family members earn bachelor’s degrees. Te commission also directly spurs development. Earlier this year, it awarded a $302,000 grant toward the construction of the $2.88 million Floyd Growth Center. Kilgore earned his law degree from William &


Mary and has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 1994, representing Scott and Lee counties and part of Wise, including Norton. He also heads the Coal and Energy Commission and the Southwest Virginia Health Authority.


STEPHANIE LANDRUM


PRESIDENT AND CEO, ALEXANDRIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP, ALEXANDRIA


For her pivotal roles in brokering Virginia Tech’s $1 billion Innovation Campus in Alexandria and neighboring Arlington’s $2.5 billion Amazon HQ2 East Coast headquarters, Landrum was celebrated as the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 Business Leader of the Year, the first female so honored. Heading up the Alexandria Economic Development


Partnership since 2015, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business graduate was born at Inova Alexandria Hospital and grew up in the Mount Vernon area. She spent more than six years with the Southeast Fairfax Development Corp., a nonprofit advocacy group for the revitalization of Route 1, before joining AEDP as senior vice president. In June, Alexandria launched a $4.4 million


Alexandria Back to Business grant program, which will issue loans of up to $20,000 for small businesses affected by the economic impacts of COVID-19. Funded by the federal CARES Act, the loans will be administered through the partnership. She recently served as president of the Virginia


Economic Development Association’s board and is chair of its nominating committee. Landrum also was a regional fellow of the Urban Land Institute.


JACK McDOUGLE


PRESIDENT AND CEO, GREATER WASHINGTON BOARD OF TRADE, WASHINGTON, D.C.


Change agent McDougle has been charged with bringing the Greater Washington Board of Trade into the 21st century while fostering collaborations between government, business groups and commu- nity leaders in the D.C. region. He also is making a difference as co-founder


of Connected DMV. A nonprofit launched by McDougle and the Greater Washington Board of Trade, Connected DMV seeks to steer Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., toward common goals, programs and approaches. Te nonprofit’s COVID-19 DMV Renewal Strategic Task Force is a subcommittee of more than 50 government and busi- ness leaders. Facilitated by McDougle, the task force works closely with the administrations of Gov. Ralph Northam, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and plans to present strategies and recommendations later this year for the region’s post-pandemic economic recovery. McDougle founded the innovation-focused


New York-based Blutre Inc. in 2009 after serving as deputy undersecretary for economic affairs for the U.S. Department of Commerce. While he was senior vice president at the Council on Competitiveness, he formed the U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative, a strategy for strengthening U.S. manufac- turing exports and job creation.


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TODD HAYMORE: PHOTO BY MARK RHODES; VICTOR HOSKINS: PHOTO BY STEPHEN GOSLING


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