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Hampton Roads Alliance3 days ago
As the demand for nuclear-powered submarines increases, Newport News Shipbuilding said it’s working to hire 3,000 skilled trades workers this year and a total of 19,000 within the decade. Last year, the Hampton Roads Workforce Council reported that the region’s maritime shipbuilding vacancies could increase to 40,000 by 2030 if measures to build capacity weren’t taken, while U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said in December that the U.S. shipbuilding industry will need 150,000 new qualified workers in the next 10 years. As a result, NNS is working with the Navy’s submarine industrial base office and the Hampton Roads Workforce Council to reach potential new employes.
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Hampton Roads Alliance4 days ago
According to Southern Living magazine, Colonial Williamsburg is one of 23 treasure troves of “authentic locales in the South that each offer an experience you can only have there.” In a special edition of this month’s magazine, an online survey among the magazine’s readers rates their favorite places across the South for its 2024 awards. More than 20,000 people responded and ranked City of Williamsburg, Virginia - Municipal Government as second in the South’s top 20 small towns!
Hampton Roads Alliance
Hampton Roads Alliance5 days ago
Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that FreezPak Logistics, LLC, a leading provider of full-service cold and dry storage services, is investing $77.5 million to construct a 245,000-square-foot cold storage facility in the City of Suffolk, VA - Municipal Government to serve the Mid-Atlantic region, via The Port of Virginia. The project will create 80 new jobs for the region! The Alliance was proud to work alongside Suffolk VA Economic Development Department #YesSuffolk and the @viVirginia Economic Development Partnership on this announcement. Read more: https://ow.ly/Ese750QTmLR

Meet our Board Members

The Hampton Roads Alliance is governed by an experienced and knowledgeable Board of Directors, comprised of C-suite executives from some of our largest employers and Mayors from throughout the region.

Board

Honorable Richard W. West

Public Sector Representative
Mayor, City of Chesapeake

Honorable Donnie R. Tuck

Public Sector Representative
Mayor, City of Hampton

Honorable Phillip D. Jones

Public Sector Representative

Mayor, City of Newport News

Honorable Kenneth C. Alexander, Ph.D.

Public Sector Representative
Mayor, City of Norfolk

Honorable Robert M. Dyer

Public Sector Representative
Mayor, City of Virginia Beach

Honorable Shannon Glover

Public Sector Representative

Mayor, City of Portsmouth

Honorable Douglas G. Pons

Public Sector Representative

Mayor, City of Williamsburg

Keith Vander Vennet, Chair

Private Sector Representative

Senior Vice President - East Region, Ferguson Enterprise

Robert Duvall, Vice Chair

Private Sector Representative

President, Virginia Natural Gas

Buffy Barefoot, Treasurer

Private Sector Representative

President, Virginia Beach TowneBank

Bill Ermatinger, Past Chair

EX OFFICIO

(Retired) Executive Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries

Douglas L. Smith, Secretary

Ex OFFICIO (Non Voting)
President & CEO, Hampton Roads Alliance

Katharine Bond

Private Sector Representative

Vice President, Public Policy, Dominion Energy

Cullen Glass

Private Sector Representative
Vice President, Supply Chain at Newport News Shipbuilding, a Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries

Nneka Chiazor

Private Sector Representative
Market Vice President, Cox Communications

John Lawson

Private Sector Representative

Executive Chairman, W.M. Jordan Company

Aubrey Layne

Private Sector Representative

Executive Vice President, Governance & External Affairs, Sentara Healthcare

Jerry Miller

Private Sector Representative
CEO, The Miller Group/Fairlead

Darrell K. Williams

Private Sector Representative

President, Hampton University

Shawn Avery

Ex Officio
President and CEO, Hampton Roads Workforce Council

Mary Bunting

Ex Officio
City Manager, City of Hampton

Nancy Grden

Ex Officio
President and CEO, Reinvent Hampton Roads

Sean Washington, RED Team Chair

Ex officio

Director, City of Norfolk Economic Development

James B. "Jimmy" Wood, General Counsel

ex officio (non voting)
Member, Willcox Savage
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