This year’s rankings featured CEOs of the 21 largest publicly traded companies headquartered in the Richmond region based on last year’s compensation. (BizSense file graphic) Billy Gifford went out on top. The now-former CEO of Henrico-based tobacco giant Altria, who retired from his post in May, finished his final full year at the company in 2025 as the highest-paid executive among his peers at the Richmond region’s nearly two dozen publicly tr…
This story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.