The former Governor of Virginia is of course that state's newest US Senator, now serving on the Senate Banking, Budget, Commerce, and Rules committees. He delivered the keynote at last summer’s Democratic national convention, and spent 20 years as a high tech leader in Northern Virginia.

Now the CEO of Ramsey Asset Management, an alternative asset management firm with aggregate assets in excess of $500MM, Russ also co-founded investment bank Friedman, Billings & Ramsey, and currently also serves as Chairman of the George Washington University Board of Trustees.

Alice was Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton, and the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office, as well as chairman of the District of Columbia Control Board, and vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of the United States. She is currently an expert on urban issues and fiscal, monetary and social policy at the Brookings Institution.

E. Hunt Burke is a member of the fifth generation of his family to operate Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust, Virginia’s oldest bank, founded in 1852. He has worked at the bank in a variety of roles since the age of 13, and as a full time staff member for 29 years. Mr. Burke is currently CEO at Burke & Herbert. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.

A former Congressman from NY and chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, Tom is now a leading legislative adviser in Washington as a member of Nixon Peabody's Government Relations & Public Policy Practice, advising clients on legislative and regulatory policies in the areas of tax, international trade, healthcare, financial services regulation and energy.  

A former Congressman from Maryland for 16 years, Al is now a high profile strategist in Dickstein Shapiro’s Public Policy and Law Practice. He previously served on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, most recently as Chairman of its Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, and as a member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.  

Mike helps to run one of the most famous and successful real estate investment and development companies in Washington history and has over 35 years of experience in various aspects of investment, development and ownership of commercial and residential real estate.  

Debby is president of Forest City Washington, and a director of parent Forest City Enterprises, one of the most noted and honored real estate development companies in the United States. Her current project, The Yards, will be the largest private development ever undertaken in Washington, DC.