awarded a contract to build the new
Johns Hopkins University Hospital to
the tune of $573 million, Clark is one of
several fi rms rebuilding the Springfi eld
interstate highway exchange. Still not
impressed? Clark has had a hand in some
400 big name builds in and around the
Washington area, including seventeen
metro stations, FedEx Field, the MCI
Center, Oriole Park at Camden Yards,
the USAir Arena and PSINet Stadium
for the Baltimore Ravens. If Clark had
been in “Field of Dreams,“ he would
have built that one too.
NEIL COHEN
The CEO of District
Photo (and son of Marvin),
Neil bought, grew and sold
Snapfi sh (a major online photo
service) for more than a few
pretty pennies. He continues
to helm the company, which
processes pictures and sells
ancillary items both online and
via the “concept retail store”
he opened in Alexandria in
2004. He and wife Marcy are
also quite active with Jewish causes
and give generously to health and
educational charities. As the old saying
he was recently heard paraphrasing at a
CharityWorks fundraiser goes: “no one
ever went broke giving to charity.”
KENNETH FELD
The big man of the Big Top,
Kenneth Feld made his money sending
in the clowns. Forbes cited this owner
of famed Ringling Bros. Barnum and |
Bailey Circus as worth $725 million
in 2004. Being a ringmaster involves
a certain amount of leger-de-main,
and Feld’s been accused of shilling the
public in the form of sending a private
eye to investigate PETA – guess he’s
trying to protect his lion tamers. A
reporter named Jan Pottker alleges
that Feld, wary of a family history
she was working on, had her under
surveillance for eight years. Neither
charge was proven. As of 2007, Feld
will be producing the iced-out version
of rabidly popular teenybopper show,
High School Musical. His achievements
and the Netherlands (the second) and
infamous 19th century robber barons
(Jay Gould, the fi rst’s father). K3 is
in the real estate and parking garage
business; he runs Parking Management
Inc., which owns and operates more
than 100 such parking facilities in
the Washington area. He’ll be best
remembered for stubbornly sticking
to his guns on a lucrative little piece of
land next to the Convention Center
-- valued at $68 million, this was one
parking lot with which Gould III was
reluctant to part. A prolifi c political
donor, K3 has given generously and
WITH [THE SANTS’] ASSETS
valued at roughly $800 million, these A-listers of the
art scene have endowed the Phillips Collection with $9
million, the National Symphony Orchestra with $10
million and the Smithsonian Institution with $10 million.
have recently been noted with an
induction into the International Circus
Hall of Fame.
KINGDON GOULD III
Close associates of Gould
affectionately call him K3, which
sounds like a remote climbing
destination but refers to his being the
third in a line of illustrious Kingdons.
They’ve been New York fi nanciers
(the fi rst), ambassadors to Luxembourg
consistently to the campaign of Gov.
Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. He also sponsors
the arts and community through
the Shakespeare Theatre Company,
the National Building Museum and
Living Classrooms.
JOE KAMPF
Although his name roughly
translates to “struggle” in German, Joe
Kampf’s tenure as CEO of Anteon
International Corp. pretty much
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eliminated his daily grind. The years
from 1996 to 2005 saw countless
dotcom bubbles burst, but under
Kampf’s reign, Anteon kept rising. As
fi ts the current mode of technologyoriented
government contractors
assembling, Voltron-style, Anteon was
acquired in 2006 by General Dynamics
for a cool $2.1 billion cash – Kampf ’s
million shares in Anteon translated to
about $59 million. His 2002 KPMG
High Tech Entrepreneur Award,
therefore, could not be more apropos.
He also serves on the board of directors
of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the
Performing Arts.
TERESA HEINZ KERRY
Baseball may be America’s
national past time, but ketchup
is most defi nitely its national
condiment. As heiress to the
Heinz family fortune, Heinz
Kerry may aid and abet the
mass consumption of fries, but
she’s a conservationist at heart.
Sitting pretty in a 23-room,
$5 million town home in
Georgetown in addition to numerous
other residences, she doesn’t need
to play “catch up” when it comes
to generosity; Heinz Kerry is famed
for her philanthropy with much to
be said for her visionary outlook
toward solving complex problems in
education, the environment and social
welfare. She is married to preeminent
political fi gure Sen. John Kerry – who,
legend has it, wooed her with his semifl
uency in her native Portuguese.
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