Carly Teigeler is the owner of CE Studios, a branding and web design company specializing in helping small businesses craft meaningful brands and effective websites that are rooted in strategy. She loves “that graphic design incorporates both intuitive and critical...

Trevor Shand started his career here in Charlottesville at a small technology company that taught Microsoft certification. He has spent more than two decades working in customer experience, customer journey, and now customer success. He has worked in small and large...

Born and raised in the Charlottesville area, Shawn Pendleton is the Associate Vice President/Investments at Stifel, a local wealth management practice. Shawn was introduced to CIC through a friend that had previously left his employer to venture out and start his own...

As an in-house counsel for Maxient, a small software company serving the higher education student affairs, Adam Hark is already impacting the Charlottesville community in a positive way after working with Maxient for just 2½ years. Adam has many roles such as...

As a child, David Langner saw his father start and run a few small businesses, and had no idea how challenging it must have been. In college he preferred studying the mind through neuroscience, and then during his masters, explored how habits are formed or replaced,...

Hunter is originally from the Charlottesville area.  He attended The University of Virginia where he earned his BA in Economics. Hunter played baseball for UVA and later played for the Florida Marlins. After his professional baseball career, he began working with...

David Deaton is the Founder and CEO of Deaton Group. His passion is to empower businesses to succeed. He works with many different types of businesses and always enjoys both the diversity in what different businesses do as well as their diverse stages of development....

Cristina Ailes has many identities - she is the founder of and interior designer for Attainable Spaces (www.attainablespaces.com), an Environmental Scientist at her day job, and a diligent student on the way to becoming a multi-certified professional. Cristina...

Chris Webster is a civil and geotechnical engineer who has worked in both the private and public sector.  For over ten years, Chris worked for a large engineering firm specializing in geotechnical projects in which he had the opportunity to travel to Burundi and...

Catarina Krizancic is a cultural anthropologist and works at the University of Virginia as the Director of the CORE program which is aimed to “deepen cross-cultural learning experienced in study, internships, or research abroad.” After living outside the United States...