ECU Communications built a national agency around an unglamorous advantage: seeing a government campaign long before the brief arrives. The creative work comes later. First comes the patient art of knowing where the money, rules and partners are moving.
It started as a Richmond streetcar company in 1909. Today Dominion Energy runs power plants, gas lines and a 176-turbine wind farm 27 miles out to sea - and the fastest-growing customers on its grid are warehouses full of servers.
Atlantic Union Bank grew from a $2,500 rural institution into a $38.1 billion Mid-Atlantic franchise. Its wager is that scale and local judgment can still share the same balance sheet.