October 16, 2024
E-Newsletter
President and CEO Victor Hoskins Honored in Washingtonian, Northern Virginia Magazine
Hoskins Named 2024 Tech Titan by Washingtonian
Fairfax County Economic Development Authority President and CEO Victor Hoskins was among the 219 leaders of Fairfax County-based companies and organizations honored by Washingtonian on its 2024 list of “Tech Titans,” which it refers to as “the most innovative and important leaders in Washington’s tech scene.” Some of the other notable leaders on the list include:
- Steve Trundle, CEO, Alarm.com
- Matt Calkins, Founder and CEO, Appian
- Omi Bell, Founder and CEO, Black Girl Ventures
- Dave Merkel, Cofounder and CEO, Expel
- Susan Tynan, Founder and CEO, Framebridge
- Phebe N. Novakovic, Chairman and CEO, General Dynamics
- Amy Gilliland, President, General Dynamics Information Technology
- John Serafini, CEO, HawkEye 360
- Kathy Warden, Chairman, President, and CEO, Northrop Grumman
- Reid Jackson, CEO and President, Unison
“It is such an honor to be included in this group of extraordinary leaders across the Greater Washington region,” said Hoskins. “By continuing to work together across sectors, we can maximize the momentum we have built for our region to truly become the center of gravity for companies and talent defining the future of technology.”
Washingtonian noted that “Hoskins has spent the past five years trying to turn Fairfax County into one of the country’s tech hubs, and he can point to successes like Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin setting up an engineering center in Reston. This year, amid the AI rush, Hoskins has helped firms repurpose old office parks into high-tech data centers.”
Click here to see Washingtonian’s entire 2024 Tech Titans list.
Hoskins Ranks in Top 10 Most Influential by Northern Virginia Magazine
Hoskins was also named one of “The 50 Most Influential People in Northern Virginia” by Northern Virginia Magazine. The most influential include, “leaders from business, development, education, entertainment, government, health care, sports, and technology who are making a difference in Northern Virginia and giving back to their community,” said Amy Ayres, Editor of Northern Virginia Magazine.
The magazine ranks its Top 10 out of the 50 Most Influential:
- Governor Glenn Youngkin
- Michelle Reid, superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools
- J. Stephen Jones, president and CEO of Inova
- Rep. Gerry Connolly, Virginia’s 11th district
- Dwight and Martha Schar, philanthropists
- Victor Hoskins, president and CEO, Fairfax County Economic Development Authority
- Sheila Johnson, CEO, Salamander Hotels & Resorts
- Lance Collins, vice president and executive director, Virginia Tech Innovation Campus
- Arvind Manocha, president and CEO, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
- Kathy Warden, chair, CEO, and president, Northrop Grumman
According to Northern Virginia Magazine, Victor Hoskins is known for bringing people and businesses across NoVA together. “We’re so much stronger when we’re united together,” he said. Hoskins, who helped Arlington land Amazon’s HQ2, said when he started in Fairfax in 2019, “companies were growing really fast. … That rapid expansion demanded that we do something in economic development different because it wasn’t just recruiting the companies and helping them expand or keeping the companies here and helping them grow. It was helping them get talent.”
To attract and reskill employees for NoVA’s $276 billion economy, Hoskins designed and implemented a digital hub that connects employers, workers, veterans, and colleges. An added component showcases careers to K-12 students. He worked with other counties to form the Northern Virginia Economic Development Alliance to cooperatively attract businesses and employees, even recruiting people who’ve been laid off in other parts of the country to move to NoVA. Ask Hoskins what is in Fairfax County’s future, and he’ll tell you: artificial intelligence, space commercialization, and quantum computing.
“We have the second highest number of artificial intelligence openings in the country, second only to Silicon Valley,” he said.
Next, he wants to see more collaboration with suburban Maryland and D.C. “The kind of cooperation we have in Northern Virginia, I would like that to be across the entire region,” he said.
To see the full list of the 50 most influential people in Northern Virginia, click here.
