Laureate Yearbook
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2023
Richard M. Adams
Executive Chairman
United Bank
Thomas J. Baltimore, Jr.
President and CEO
Park Hotels & Resorts
Terri McClements
Senior Partner and Former Mid-Atlantic Market Managing Partner (retired)
PwC
Deryl McKissack, PE
President and CEO
McKissack & McKissack
Kurt D. Newman, MD
President and CEO (retired)
Children’s National Hospital
2022
Reggie Aggarwal
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Cvent
Michele Kang
Majority Owner
The Washington Spirit
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Cognosante
Charlene Mickens Dukes, EdD
President Emerita
Prince George’s Community College
Founder and Principal
The Dukes Group LLC
Ray Ritchey
Senior Executive Vice President
Boston Properties
2021
Virginia Ali
Owner
Ben’s Chili Bowl
Russ Ramsey
Chairman and CEO
Ramsey Asset Management
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
Principal
Uplands Real Estate Partners
Craig Ruppert
Founder and Chief Executive
Ruppert Companies
2020
Dr. Edward H. Bersoff
Chairman of Greenwich Associates, LLC
Chairman, Parabilis, LLC
Janet Hill
Board of Directors
The Carlyle Group and Esquire Bank
Mark D. Lerner
Principal, Lerner Enterprises
Managing Principal Owner & Vice Chairman, Washington Nationals
2019
Marla Beck
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Bluemercury, Inc.
Daniel A. D’Aniello
Co-Founder & Chairman Emeritus
The Carlyle Group
Mike Daniels
Former Chairman & CEO
Network Solutions
Douglas Jemal
Founder & President
Douglas Development Corporation
2018
José Andrés
Chef/Owner
ThinkFoodGroup & minibar by José Andrés
Mark D. Ein
Founder & CEO
Venturehouse Group, LLC
Dr. Sachiko Kuno
Founder & Chair
Halcyon
Donald A. Brown, Joseph B. Gildenhorn & Benjamin R. Jacobs
Founding Partners
The JBG Companies
2017
Philip D. M. de Picciotto
Founder & President
Octagon, Inc.
Michael N. Harreld
Immediate Past President
PNC Bank, Greater Washington Area
Gracia C. Martore
Retired President & CEO
TEGNA Inc.
Christopher J. Nassetta
President & CEO
Hilton
2016
Diane Hoskins
Co-CEO
Gensler
O.M. (Tony) Nicely
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
GEICO
Kenneth A. Samet
President & CEO
MedStar Health
Gary H. Tabach
Managing Partner, Greater Washington
Deloitte
2015
Seth Goldman
Co-founder & TeaEO
Honest Tea
Sheila C. Johnson
CEO
Salamander Hotels & Resorts;
Vice Chairman
Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Joe Rigby
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer
Pepco Holdings, Inc.
John Toups
Planning Research Corporation (retired)
J. Scott Wilfong
Chairman & CEO
SunTrust Bank, Greater Washington/Maryland (retired)
2014
Peter Barris
Managing General Partner,
Washington, DC
NEA
Sudhakar Kesavan
Chairman & CEO
ICF International
Debbie Kissire
Vice Chair
EY
Dennis Ratner
Founder, CEO & Stylist
Ratner Companies
2013
William Couper
Retired President, Mid-Atlantic Region
Bank of America
Bobbie Greene Kilberg
President & CEO
Northern Virginia Technology Council
Mark Ordan
CEO
Sunrise Senior Living
Linda Hudson
President & CEO
BAE Systems, Inc.
2012
Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.,
Chairman
Patton Boggs LLP
Giuseppe Cecchi
President
The IDI Group Companies
John R. Darvish
Founder & President
DarCars
M. Charito Kruvant
President & CEO
Creative Associates International, Inc.
Ronald D. Paul
Chairman & CEO
EagleBank
2011
Gloria Bohan
President & CEO
Omega World Travel
Alan L. Meltzer
Founder & CEO
The Meltzer Group
Joseph E. Robert, Jr.
Founder & Chairman
JER Partners
Robert J. Stevens
Chairman & CEO
Lockheed Martin
Warren M. Thompson
Founder & President
Thompson Hospitality
2010
Gerald T. Halpin
Founder, President & CEO, Chairman of the Board of Directors
WEST*GROUP
John G. Laytham
President
Clyde's Restaurant Group
Debra L. Lee
Chairman & CEO
BET Networks
Theodore "Ted" J. Leonsis
Chairman & CEO
Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Dr. J. Phillip London
Executive Chairman, Chairman of the Board
CACI International Inc
2009
David G. Bradley
Chairman
Atlantic Media Company
Margery Kraus
President & CEO
APCO Worldwide
Barbara J. Krumsiek
President & CEO
Calvert
Dr. Ralph W. Shrader
Chairman & CEO
Booz Allen Hamilton
J. Knox Singleton
President & CEO
Inova Health System
2008
Richard D. Fairbank
Chairman & CEO
Capital One
Donald E. Graham
Chairman & CEO
The Washington Post Company
Mandell J. Ourisman
Chairman of the Board
Ourisman Automotive Enterprises
Milton V. Peterson
Founder
The Peterson Companies
Linda D. Rabbitt
Chairman & CEO
rand* construction corporation
2007
Sidney O. Dewberry
Chairman
Dewberry
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Senior Managing Director
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
John P. McDaniel
CEO
MedStar Health, Inc.
David Reznick
Chairman
Reznick Group
David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder & Managing Director
The Carlyle Group
2006
John E. "Chip" Akridge, III
Chairman
Akridge
Alexandra Armstrong
Chairman
Armstrong, Fleming, & Moore, Inc.
Jeong H. Kim, Ph.D.
President
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
B. Francis Saul II
Chairman & CEO
Chevy Chase Bank
Kenneth R. Sparks
Former Executive Vice President
Federal City Council
2005
Raul Fernandez
CEO
Object Video
Fred Malek
Founder & Chairman
Thayer Capital Partners
Herbert S. Miller
Chairman
Western Development Corporation
Morgan O'Brien
Founder
Nextel Communications
John T. Schwieters
Vice Chairman
Perseus L.L.C.
2004
Steve Case
Former Chairman & CEO
America Online Inc., &
AOL Time Warner
John M. Derrick Jr.
Retired Chairman
PEPCO Holdings, Inc.
P. Wesley Foster Jr.
Chairman & CEO
Long & Foster Companies, Inc.
Marie C. Johns
Former President & CEO
Verizon - Washington, DC
Robert P. Pincus
Chairman
Milestone Merchant Partners
2003
Robert L. Johnson
Chairman & CEO
BET Holdings, Inc.
Austin H. Kiplinger
Chairman
Kiplinger Washington Editors
Theodore N. Lerner
Founding Partner
Lerner Enterprises
Edward F. Mitchell
Former Chairman & CEO
PEPCO
John R. Tydings
Former President
Greater Washington Board of Trade
2002
Joe L. Allbritton
Former Chairman & CEO
Riggs National Bank and WJLA-TV
A. James Clark
CEO
Clark Enterprises;
Chairman, Executive Committee
Clark Construction
J. Willard Marriott, Jr.
Chairman & CEO
Marriott International
Esther T. Smith
Founding Editor
Washington Business Journal;
Founder
Washington Technology
Jack Valenti
Chairman & CEO
Motion Picture Association of America
2001
Roger R. Blunt
Chairman & CEO
Blunt Enterprises
John J. Curley
Former Chairman, President & CEO
Gannett Company Inc.
John T. Hazel, Jr.
Attorney at Law
Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Founder
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Mario Morino
Chairman
Morino Institute
2000
William Harris
President
Greater Washington Region,
Crestar Bank
James V. Kimsey
Founding CEO & Chairman Emeritus
America Online, Inc.
Louise Lynch
Chairman & CEO Emeritus
Courtesy Associates
Abe Pollin
Chairman of the Board & CEO
Washington Sports and Entertainment
Irwin Zazulia
Retired President & CEO
Hecht's
1999
Irving Goldstein
Retired Director General & CEO
Intelsat;
Retired Chairman & CEO
Comsat
William S. Harps
Retired President & CEO
Harps & Harps, Inc.
Clifford M. Kendall
Retired Chairman & CEO
Computer Data Systems, Inc.
Catherine Filene Shouse
Founder
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Robert Zalokar
Retired Chairman & CEO
First Virginia Banks, Inc.
1998
Sister M. Majella Berg
Chancellor
Marymount University
William Calomiris
President
Calomiris Investment Company
Dr. Coleman Raphael
Dean Emeritus
George Mason University;
Founder, CEO & Chairman
Atlantic Research Corporation
John D. Stewart
Co-Founder
The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
Carmen E. Turner
General Manager
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority;
Undersecretary
Smithsonian Institute
1997
Norman R. Augustine
Chairman
Lockheed Martin
Dan R. Bannister
Chairman
DynCorp
Oliver T. Carr, Jr.
Chairman
CarrAmerica Realty Corporation
Stephen D. Harlan
Chairman
H.G. Smithy Company
Ivan Selin
Founder
American Management Systems
1996
Morris Cafritz
Founder
The Cafritz Company
Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell
Founder
WETA
Israel Cohen
Former President & Chairman of the Board
Giant Food;
Nehemiah Meyer Cohen
Co-Founder
Giant Food
Edwin I. Colodny
Retired Chairman of the Board
USAir
Dr. George W. Johnson
President Emeritus
George Mason University
1995
Katharine Graham
Chairman of the Executive Committee
The Washington Post Company
R. Robert Linowes
Senior Counsel
Linowes and Blocher
Walter F. McArdle
Founder
McArdle Printing Company Inc.
Joseph H. Riley
Retired Chairman of the Board & President
NS&T Bank
The Honorable Walter E. Washington
Former Mayor of Washington, DC
1994
James G. Banks
Former Executive Vice President
DC Association of Realtors
Edwin T. Holland
Founder
First Virginia Banks, Inc.
David O. Maxwell
Former Chairman of the Board
Fannie Mae
Allen H. Neuharth
Former Chairman of the Board
Gannett Company;
Founder
USA Today
Jean Head Sisco
Former Vice President
Woodward Lothrop
1993
Christian Heurich, Sr.
Founder
The Christian Heurich Brewing Company
Foster Shannon
Former President & CEO
Shannon and Luchs
W. Reid Thompson
Former Chairman of the Board, CEO & President
Pepco
Julia M. Walsh
Former Managing Director
Tucker Anthony;
CEO
Julia M. Walsh and Sons
Earle C. Williams
Former President, CEO & Member of the Board
BDM International Incorporated
1992
Earle Palmer Brown
Founder
Earle Palmer Brown Companies
John Lankford
Architect
Washington's First African American Architect
William G. McGowan
Founder
MCI Communications Corporation
Thornton W. Owen
Former Chairman of the Board & CEO
Perpetual Savings & Loan
1991
Robert C. Baker
Former Chairman & CEO
American Security Bank
Donald S. Bittinger
Former Chairman of the Board
Washington Gas
Willard M. Kiplinger
Founder
The Kiplinger Washington Letter
Jane E. Marilley
Founder
Courtesy Associates, Inc.
1990
Dr. Lloyd H. Elliott
Immediate Past President
George Washington University
Jesse H. Mitchell
Founder
Industrial Bank of Washington
Benjamin T. Rome
Chairman of the Board Emeritus
George Hyman Construction Company
Edward Bennett Williams
Founder
Williams & Connolly
1989
George M. Ferris, Sr.
Chairman of the Board
Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.
Theodore R. Hagans, Jr.
Founder
Fort Lincoln Town Corporation
Sidney L. Hechinger
Founder
Hechinger Company
Thomas G. Pownall
Chairman of the Executive Committee
Martin Marietta Corporation
Bernard Francis Saul
Founder
B.F. Saul Company
1988
Robert Fleming
Former Chairman of the Board & CEO
Riggs National Bank
Eugene Meyer
Former Chairman of the Board, President & Publisher
The Washington Post Company
David Lloyd Kreeger
Honorary Chairman of the Board
GEICO
Flaxie M. Pinkett
President
John R. Pinkett, Inc.
J. Willard Marriott
Founder
Marriott Corporation
Charles E. Smith
Founder
The Charles E. Smith Companies