Greg Wingfield

Greg has committed his career to recruiting and retaining businesses and developing opportunities for the vitality of a region. Specifically, the past 18 years he has been promoting Greater Richmond serving as the founding president and chief executive officer of the Greater Richmond Partnership, Inc., a public-private regional economic development organization.

Since launching in mid-1994, the Partnership has assisted numerous high profile companies including, K-Lines, Genworth, Brink’s, Philip Morris USA (headquarters and research/development), MeadWestvaco and Altria Group Inc. The more than 400 businesses recruited since 1994 have committed more than $7.4 billion in new investment. The region has also added more than 122,000 net new jobs over this same period of time.

Organizations that Greg has led since 1987 have been named one of the “Best Economic Development Groups in the United States” seven times by Site Selection Magazine. Additionally, the Greater Richmond Partnership has been cited by the magazine three times for pulling off the nation’s biggest “top dollar projects.”

Since begining his career in 1976, he has assisted over 600 companies that have invested more than $8 billion in new capital investment in the Commonwealth.

Greg earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in urban and regional planning from Virginia Commonwealth University and began his career as a planner with state and regional agencies, and as director/manager with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development.

From 1984 to mid-1987, he was marketing manager with the Virginia Department of Economic Development. Then, for seven years - just before coming back to Greater Richmond - he was president of Forward Hampton Roads, the economic development arm of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce in Norfolk, Virginia. 

Greg has been on many local and national Boards including: The Wingfield Family Society; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Board of Trustees; Richmond Real Estate Group; International Economic Development Council, to name just a few.

He is a recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Award of the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University, a past president of the Virginia Economic Developers Association, the recipient of the Virginia Economic Developers Association’s Cardinal Award, and served as the Spring 2002 Cadmus Leader-in-Residence at the Jepson Leadership School at the University of Richmond. He has been a speaker before economic development forums in the U.S. and abroad, is regularly contacted by local and national media, and has been interviewed in national print, on network radio and television.