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Safe haven. “A place of safety or refuge.” As the executive director of the VA Council of CEOs, I interact with some of the most successful business leaders in Virginia every day. Their lives are very different from those of…

As a banker, we hear it a lot. As a borrower, you might have said it before. “My interest rate is so high. Can’t you come down on that rate a bit?” It seems like a fair question, especially given…

In 1982, Gordon Sutton’s father, a successful lawyer, found himself in the unlikely position of running a fuel company. At the time, the company was a small short truck distribution business in Charlottesville, Virginia, selling three and a half million…

          Public relations today is about more than being quoted in the paper or online. PR today is about driving traffic, sales and business. What used to be newsworthy – anniversaries, new buildings, new hires –…

Read Richmond Times-Dispatch coverage >   Each quarter the Virginia Council of CEOs (VACEOs) and University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business partner to take the pulse of top executives in the region through a comprehensive Virginia CEO Economic Outlook…