List of Virginia Tech Alumni - Business, Government, and Academia

Business, Government, and Academia

  • Henry B. Heller, class of 1968, Democrat, representing District 19 in the Maryland House of Delegates.
  • Donaldson Brown, Class of 1902, financial executive and corporate director with both DuPont and General Motors
  • Robert B. Pamplin, Sr., Class of 1933, CEO of Georgia Pacific Corp.
  • Cordel L. Faulk, Class of 1998, Member of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Tech and Director of Admissions of the University of Virginia School of Law.
  • Mike Michalowicz, Class of 1993, co-captain VT lacrosse, Author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur and The Pumpkin Plan (Penguin Books)
  • Thomas M. Price, Class of 1938, architect
  • Clifton C. Garvin, Class of 1943 (BS) and 1947 (MS), Chairman and CEO of Exxon Corp.
  • Clifford A. Cutchins III, Class of 1944, Chairman and CEO of Sovran Bank
  • Frank Dunham, Jr., the lead lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui
  • Chris Kraft, Class of 1944, NASA architect of Mission Control and the first flight director. Author of Flight My Life in Mission Control
  • Robert Castle Jr., Class of 1976, Flight Director in Mission Control at Johnson Space Center.
  • Thomas L. Phillips, Class of 1947, Chairman and CEO of Raytheon Corp.
  • Robert Coleman Richardson, Class of 1958 (BS) and 1960 (MS), physicist at Cornell University, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for the discovery of superfluidity in He-3
  • Homer Hickam, Class of 1964, NASA employee and author of the memoir Rocket Boys, which was the basis for the film October Sky
  • Roger K. Crouch, Class of 1968 (MS) and 1971 (PhD), NASA astronaut
  • James K. Asselstine, Class of 1970, Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during Three Mile Island incident
  • Richard Baker, game designer
  • William Lewis, Rhodes Scholar, Founding Director of McKinsey Global Institute
  • Molly Line, reporter for Fox News
  • Mark Embree, Class of 1996, Rhodes Scholar, currently Associate Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University
  • Denis G. Clem, Class of 1973, Chief Information Officer for the Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • Leonard V. Clark, Class of 1961 (BS) and 1966 (MS), NASA Langley engineer and Surface Sampler Team Leader of the highly successful Viking Mission to Mars in 1976.
  • George Nolen, Class of 1978, President and CEO of Siemens Corp.
  • Charles J. Camarda, Class of 1983 (Ph.D) — Astronaut on board the space shuttle Discovery for the STS-114 mission
  • Jim Buckmaster, CEO of craigslist.org
  • Elliott Gordon, Class of 1994, Vice President and General Manager, Universal Sports
  • Steven C. Bowman, Founder of Management Consultants, LLC
  • Chet Culver, former Governor of Iowa (2007-2011) and former Iowa Secretary of State (1999–2007)
  • Jess Cliffe, Game Designer and co-creator of Counter-Strike, the popular online videogame.
  • Dave Calhoun, CEO and Chairman of the Board, The Nielsen Company
  • Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr., Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
  • Danny Ludeman, President & CEO Wachovia Securities (1999–Present)
  • Brian Sullivan, Class of 1993 - news anchor and co-host "Street Signs" for CNBC
  • Hoda Kotb, Class of 1986 - Television news anchor and correspondent for NBC
  • Pierre Thomas, Class of 1984 - Senior Justice Correspondent for ABC News
  • Guillermo Ramon Miranda, former Assistant of the General Manager of Empresa Nacional Portuaria (Honduras National Port Authority).
  • Tony McNulty, Minister for Police and Security in the UK government.
  • Matt Lohr, Class of 1995 - Delegate, Virginia House of Delegates
  • Elsa Murano, 23rd President of Texas A&M University; former Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety
  • Rob Wittman, Congressman from the 1st District of Virginia
  • Markus Breitschmid, Master of Architecture in 1994 - Internationally active Swiss architectural theoretician, historian, and author
  • Curt Finch, Class of 1987, CEO of Journyx and Author of All Your Money Won't Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business
  • Mike Aubrey, Class of 1996, Real Estate Expert and Co-Host of HGTV's Real Estate Intervention.
  • Linwood H. Rose, Fifth President of James Madison University
  • William H. Goodwin Jr., Class of 1962, Chairman of CCA Industries, Inc. and The Riverstone Group, LLC, a Holding Company which owns The Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Virginia, and the Kiawah Island Golf Resort and Sea Pines Resort, both in South Carolina.
  • Bridget Ryan Berman, Class of 1982, CEO of Giorgio Armani Corporation.
  • William Latham, Class of 1955, President & CEO of Budget Motels Inc.
  • Charles Pryor Jr., Class of 1966, President & CEO of Westinghouse Electric Company.
  • Charlie L. Yates, Class of 1958, was the first African American to graduate from Virginia Tech and the first African American to graduate from "any major Southern engineering institute"
  • Thomas Jermoluk, BS Computer Science, 1978, MS, 1979; CEO @Home Network 1997–2000
  • Charles Elliot Andrews. BS Accounting, 1972; President RSM McGladrey.
  • Brad Reed, BSEE, 1988; Industrial Base and Critical Technologies Manager, Chief Engineer's Office, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base
  • Jim Monroe, BS Horticulture, 1989; creator and owner of Hort Couture. The popular brand of plants and flowers in US and Canada.
  • Paul Laughton, Class of 1967, Author of Apple DOS 3.1, Atari DOS and Atari Basic, BASIC! for Android.
  • William Dodd (ambassador), Class of 1895 (Bachelor Degree), 1897 (Masters Degree), Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937 under President Roosevelt. Subject of Erik Larson's book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin.

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