The DMV (Washington, DC | Maryland | Virginia) Business Show

Josh Etemadi is the Owner and Co-Founder of District Bonding in Leesburg, Virginia!  He was born in Warrenton, Virginia and grew up in Loudoun County.  In school he was into the arts and originally wanted to be a music producer until one day at the mall he was handed a business card to sell Cutco Knives and it was his first time he was exposed to sales, he shares the invaluable lessons h...

In this week's episode we have Arun Mallikarjunan , CEO and Co-Founder of Symbiosis in Washington, DC!  They are revolutionizing how healthcare providers open, manage, and grow their own private practice without all the hassle.  Arun is originally from India and came to the United States in 2003 to work on a software project in Denver, Colorado and has been here since.  It is intere...

Amelia Elze is the Principal of Elze Law from Oakton, Virginia!  She grew up in New Jersey and Long Island, and loved surfing before heading in for class in high school.  She has been a hard worker and entrepreneurial since a young age, basically running her own babysitting agency in high school.  She talks about some things she would have done differently such starting with at leas...

In this week's episode we have Rob Rodriguez , CEO and Owner of REFF, LLC in Baltimore, Maryland!  He shares with us his story on how he grew his commercial painting, pressure washing, sandblasting, and epoxy flooring company to what it is today working with global organizations.  He was born and raised in Panama City, Panama and lived through the Noriega regime.  He completed his c...

Adam Segal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cove from Washington, DC!  He is originally from the Boston, Massachusetts area and of course is a big Boston Red Sox fan that as a teenager he worked at Fenway Park selling cokes up and down the aisles and had a lot of fun!  During grad school he started to develop the business plan for Cove and that is where he met his business partner, and came...

In this week's episode we have Mary Abbajay , President and CEO of Careerstone Group in Washington, DC!  They help create positive and productive workplaces in organizations.  She is originally from Toledo, Ohio and moved to DC over 31 years ago because her sister was living here.  Growing up in Ohio she called herself a nerd, she was into reading and sports.  Her first job in...

Dylan Krzywonski is the Founder and CEO of Hop Havoc from Williamsport, Maryland!  They were named to the Inc. 5000 in 2020!  He is from South Padre Island, Texas and grew up very quickly, he has been entrepreneurial since a young age starting his first business aimed at the six week spring break rush.  We had great conversation about the school system and home schooling.  He a...

In this week's episode we have Ron Gula , President and Co-Founder at Gula Tech Adventures out of Columbia, Maryland!  He grew up in Syracuse, New York and served in the U.S. Air Force before arriving to the Washington, DC metro area to work with the NSA (National Security Agency).  He has founded several companies, one of them being Tenable Network Security.  Where he was the Co-Fo...

Andrew Dana is the Founder and Co-Owner of two award-winning restaurants Timber Pizza Co. and Call Your Mother with locations in Washington, DC and Maryland!  He grew up in the same neighborhood as me in DC, we're just two kids from Mt. Pleasant that went to the same middle school Alice Deal.  Did not know it but lived only a several blocks away from each other.  Recently President...

In this week's episode we have Scott Barbaro , CEO of Masonry Masters with headquarters in Sterling, Virginia!  He is a first generation Italian immigrant that grew up here locally in Silver Spring, Maryland and graduated from the University of Maryland.  He began working in the family business Masonry Masters while in college starting at the bottom.  He shares a great story about h...

Sonia Mundra is the President of Chenega Analytic Business Solutions with headquarters in Lorton, Virginia!  She has grown the company from $0 to over $100 Million in sales and backlog, in less than three years!  She is originally from southern Delaware and moved the Washington, DC area to attend Georgetown University and George Washington University and has been here ever since.  S...

In this week's episode we have McKeever (Mac) Conwell,II , Founder and Managing Partner at RareBreed Ventures out of Baltimore, Maryland!  He is from Baltimore and played sports growing up but was really good at math and science, played football and was in the robotics team and engineering club.  Mac's entrepreneurial journey started in 2010 when he and two of his best friends decided to...

In this week's episode we have Christopher Schafer , Founder and Proprietor of Christopher Schafer Clothier with locations in Baltimore, Maryland and Los Angeles, CA.  He grew up in Anne Arundel County in Millersville, Maryland!  He has always been into skate boarding and drumming, and still does it even now!  So much so he gave us a tour of his wonderful showroom and event space wi...

In this week's episode we have David Sullivan , Founder and CEO of Till with their headquarter out of Alexandria, Virginia!  It is amazing to hear what Till is doing in helping both the renters and landlords.  David is a local having grown up in the DMV his entire life, living in the McLean and Arlington Northern Virginia area!  Had a passion for travel soccer during childhood, play...

Colin Tarbert is President and CEO of the Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) which serves as the economic development agency for Baltimore City.  He is a local having grown up outside of Baltimore City, in the Parkville and Towson, Maryland area!  As a child he was involved in Scouting and in high school joined a band playing the guitar.  He had a strong interest in building th...

In this week's episode we have Carey Anne Nadeau , Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Loop in Washington, DC!  She grew up in the insurance capital of the world Hartford, Connecticut which is interesting because she is now building an inclusive auto insurance company.  At an early age she showed a gift and talent for math, this helped her tremendously in computers and coding in elementary school....

In this week's episode we have Chris May , CEO and Founder of Quadrant Advisory with their offices in Washington, DC!  He grew up New Orleans, Louisiana and came to the Washington, DC metro area after college and has been here ever since.  Growing up he loved playing baseball and has a great story playing pee wee football with a future NFL player.  He showed his first entrepreneuria...

In this week's episode we have, Andrew A. Altman, Sr. CEO and Founder of Best Buy Waterproofing and Best Buy Design Build with their offices in Columbia, Maryland!  He is a local, he was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Prince George's County in Fort Washington, Maryland.  He also attended the University of Maryland and is a Terp alumni as well!  This episode is big in motivati...

In this week's episode we have Kalpesh Raval , Co-Founder and Board of Directors of VitusVet with their offices in Columbia, Maryland!  He was born and grew up in Mumbai, India, and lived in a 100 square foot home with his two siblings and parents.  Yes, that is five people in a 100 square feet.  He had a great and happy childhood living in Mumbai, it is all perspective!  He ca...

In this week's episode we have Marc Steren , Founding Director of Entrepreneurship at The Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, Maryland!  His family is from Argentina and he grew up locally in Rockville, MD.  Marc has founded several companies and exited them, afterwards he decided to spend more time with his family, write books, and teach the valuable lessons of entrepreneurship he...

In this week's episode we have Ernst Valery, Managing Member of SAA | EVI with an office in Baltimore, Maryland!  He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and immigrated to America at 8 years old and landed in Brooklyn, NY and then Nyack, New York.  Growing up he was very busy as a student athlete playing football, lacrosse, and other sports.  He originally wanted to be an architect and...

In this week's episode we have Sam Frank, Co-Founder and Partner of Four Twelve Roofing with their office in Baltimore, Maryland!  They have been recognized as America's #122 fastest growing company by Inc. 5000 List and won the Baltimore Business Journal Fast Fifty Award which identifies the fastest-growing private companies across the Baltimore-metro region.  He shares how he grew up i...

In this week's episode we have Brent Lightner !  Brent is the Founder and CEO of Taoti Creative with offices in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.  He was born and raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania and at a very young age showed interest in computer and robotics.  It all started with building websites in college as an entry to a scholarship competition.  He founded the creative digi...

In this week's episode we have Tony Ma !  Tony is the Founder and CEO of Benten Technologies with headquarters in Manassas, Virginia.  It is all about telling a good story, and Tony has an amazing story to tell!  He was born during the Vietnam War in a rural area outside of Ho Chi Minh City.  He shares with us his origin story starting from birth to being stranded in the South...

In this week's episode we have Amy Katz !  Amy is the Founder and CEO of Curbside Kitchen with their office in McLean, Virginia.  They are known as the Uber for food trucks with over 500 food trucks on their platform and counting!  She grew up in New Jersey and is a University of Maryland alumni as well - go Terps!  We chatted how the Curbside Kitchen idea came about 3 years ag...