Bridget Ryan Berman, vice president
and COO of Apple Computer Inc.‘s retail operations,
was named 2005 Distinguished Alumna of Virginia Tech’s
Pamplin College of Business. Berman, a former Richmond
resident who now lives in New Jersey, spent 23 years
in department and designer store retailing before joining
Apple last year. She oversees the company’s 105 stores
worldwide. She was formerly group president of Polo
Ralph Lauren Retail. (Press release)
Douglas R. Fahl, executive vice
president of Dewberry Inc., a Fairfax-based engineering
services company, was elected to the Home Builders
Association of Virginia Hall of Fame. Only 26 persons
in the housing industry have been so honored since
1956. Fahl serves on the association’s board of directors
and is chairman of its education foundation. He joined
Dewberry in 1970. (Press release)
Genworth Financial Inc., a Richmond-based insurance
holding company, received honors from IR Magazine at
its annual awards program for Best Investor Relations
for an Initial Public Offering and Best Corporate Advertising.
Genworth Financial has been a public company for less
than one year. (PRNewswire)
Raymond E. “Chip” Mason, chairman,
president and CEO of Legg Mason Inc. and a 1959 graduate
of The College of William & Mary, gave $4
million to the college’s School of Business. Mason’s
gift allowed the school to meet budgeted salary for
faculty. Mason, who chairs the board of Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, has now given over $5 million
to William & Mary’s business school. (Press
release)
George J. Pederson, chairman and CEO of ManTech
International Corp. of Fairfax, received the
National Defense Industrial Association’s 2005 James
Forrestal Industry Leadership Award. The Forrestal
award is given to an executive with a record of business
accomplishment who has helped strengthen the national
defense’s industrial base. (Press release)
Patrick J. and Margaret Conn Walsh,
members of The College of William & Mary’s
Class of 1966, gave $1.5 million to the William & Mary
Business School Foundation to endow a professorship
in business ethics. The Walshes live in New Jersey.
The Walsh Professor of Ethics in Business Leadership
will be a new position at the school. A related gift
of $100,000 from Ernest Goodrich, Class of 1935, will
be used to create The Michael Palmore Fund to support
research funding for the new position. (Press release)
Henry J. Zirkle, vice president
of Morris Industries Inc. of Powhatan, was named a
Fellow of the Construction Specifications Institute,
a national association of professionals in commercial
building designs and construction. In the organization’s
57-year history only 340 persons have been named Fellows
for their efforts in advancing construction technology. (Press
release)
