Nearman wrote sports for the Washington Post, Washington Times and other media outlets. His next coffee-table book in production highlights the 41-year history of the Cherry Blossom 10-Miler in Washington, D.C.

Jeffrey Libman

Wells Fargo Advisors has for the third consecutive year designated Jeffrey Libman, BBA, ’77, senior vice president for investments, as a member of its “Premier Advisors Program,” a distinction that reflects Libman’s achievement of meeting or exceeding the advisors’ standards in the areas of revenue generation, educational attainment and client-service best practices.

Libman has been a financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors for four years and has 26 years experience in the brokerage industry.  Libman lives in Randolph, N.J., with his wife and their three children. He is a member of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ, the largest Jewish philanthropy in New Jersey.

Mariya Bouraima

Mariya Bouraima, BBA, ’06, launched her own boutique communications agency, Aveya Creative, in early 2013.  Aveya Creative provides custom communications for small businesses, including brand strategy, logo design, copywriting and social media management.

After working locally and internationally in marketing and communications roles for corporate, government and higher education organizations, including the U.S. Department of State and the Ritz-Carlton, Bouraima decided she wanted to work with small businesses. Her current clients include a woman-owned social enterprise that produces and sells fair trade shea butter skincare products. (Shea butter is derived from the nut of the African shea tree.)

Bouraima plans to share her business experience with current GW students as a career advisor.

Rubin is chief operating officer (COO) and chief financial officer (CFO) of Midwood Capital Management LLC, where he is responsible for the non-investment activities of the investment manager, including fund accounting, client service and marketing, and compliance.

Rubin previously was a managing member and COO of Tara Hill Capital Management LP, a Boston-based long-short equity hedge fund firm he helped form in 2009. Prior to that, he was senior managing partner of Boldwater Capital Management, a $300 million long-short hedge fund organization based in Boston. He had previously spent 17 years at Standish, Ayer & Wood Inc., now Standish Mellon Asset Management, including in roles as director and executive committee member.

Emily Barr

Emily Barr, MBA, ’86, has been appointed to the National Association of Broadcasters’ TV board of directors. The NAB is the industry group representing commercial radio and television stations in the United States. Barr, president and CEO of Post-Newsweek Stations, the TV broadcasting arm of The Washington Post Co., will fill the ABC Affiliate seat on the board. Barr previously was president and general manager of ABC-owned WLS-TV in Chicago.

Weiner is the chief medical information officer for the U.S. Department of Defense.

The leaders were honored at the first-annual FedScoop 50 Awards ceremony held at the Hay Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C., and attended by more than 150 government and private sector leaders from the White House and the U.S. Department of Defense, among other institutions and agencies.

The awardees were nominated by their peers in government and voted on by FedScoop’s readers. More than 8,000 votes were cast for winners in categories that included federal executives, federal leaders, industry leaders, federal IT programs, federal innovations, mentors and up-and-comers.  To read more about the awards, go here.

The award recognizes CTOs for “critical contributions to achieving results for their customers and their leadership within their own companies.”

The NVTC, the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia, is the largest technology council in the nation, serving about 1,000 companies and service providers, universities, foreign embassies, nonprofits and governmental agencies.

Stygar is CTO for Kore Federal, a leading provider of information technology solutions and management consulting services to the federal government.

He is managing Kore’s efforts to design and implement cloud computing, enterprise mobility, advanced analytics and automated risk assessment solutions for its border security, intelligence and defense customers. He has participated in delegations to aid U.S.-allied immigration and customs agencies in ten countries across five continents to improve the use of technology to identify criminal and terrorist activity.

Stygar said Kore was fortunate to work with federal customers who value innovative information technology solutions and have the means to implement them. He said his award reflected “the value of Kore Federal to its customers.”

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) calls for state and federal agencies to make the services of health insurance exchanges, or Web-based health insurance supermarkets, available to all U.S. consumers by Jan. 1, 2014.

Robinson is now the chief operating officer at the district’s health department.

Robinson is now the chief operating officer at the district’s health department. Before that, she was deputy director for operations at the department’s Community Health Administration unit.

Robinson has been involved with health program management since 2006.

To read more about the race, go here.

The group is an elected advisory body to San Diego County that meets monthly to consider land development, road improvement, environmental issues, signage, transportation and trails, and other similar issues.

Lynch began working at Suburban Trust shortly after earning his business degree. He was a consumer loan officer and managed the automobile loan department.  He also worked for Riggs Bank.

Lynch was born in Baltimore and moved to the Washington, D.C., area in the 1930s.  A World War II veteran, he served in the U.S. Army in England.

Brian Newport

Brian Newport, MSPM, `04, is supporting professor of management and strategy at the Eberhardt School of Business at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.  Newport teaches courses in strategic management, entrepreneurship, and organizational behavior. He is also founder and a principal of the Newport Consulting Group, a consulting firm that specializes in helping business owners and leaders with strategy and leadership development. His firm has worked with over 350 businesses across all industries.  Newport resides in Stockton with his family.

Editor’s Note: Benjamin Franklin University, formerly Pace Institute, merged with The George Washington University in 1987 within the School of Business.

Simmons is the owner of Woodfork Genealogy, LLC.  The company’s mission is to encourage the preservation of family and community histories.