804-644-6600
707 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Richmond, VA, 23219,
The Vectre Corporation was established in 1989 as a subsidiary of the Virginia law firm of Hazel & Thomas, P.C., with offices in Northern Virginia and Richmond, to provide necessary, highly-specialized non-legal services in the area of government relations. Hazel & Thomas merged with ReedSmith LLP in 1999. The firm has grown to the point that today it is widely acknowledged for its expertise and communication abilities by federal, state and local government officials as one of its leading government relations resources.
In 1992, The Vectre Corporation expanded its range of services when it became the Virginia member of The Advocacy Group (TAG), an international network of law and government relations firms providing advocacy services at State Capitols throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. In 1995, The Vectre Corporation became an independent firm, owned by members of its Board of Directors.
Today, The Vectre Corporation is headquartered at 707 East Main Street, an easy walk from the Virginia's Capitol Square. The firm includes six full-time professional government affairs advocates with more than eight decades of cumulative experience. The Vectre Corporation has expanded by opening an office in Northern Virginia.
Firm Specialties:
Vectre's areas of special expertise involve both traditional lobbying as well as grassroots and grass-tops lobbying. Vectre brings to any project strong experience in winning legislative battles on behalf of diverse corporate interests.
H. BENSON DENDY III serves as President of The Vectre Corporation and a member of its Board of Directors. As a senior staff member for two Virginia Governors, he has held positions as diverse as Secretary of the Commonwealth, Secretary to the Governor's Cabinet, and Special Assistant to the Governor. He began his career in state government in 1978, as a legislative assistant to the Lieutenant Governor. Over the course of seven legislative sessions, he advocated for two Governors' agendas in the General Assembly. He served on transition committees for Virginia Governors Mark Warner and Terry McAuliffe.
In 2016, Dendy was appointed to the Board of Visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University, where he currently serves as Vice Rector. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Containerization & Intermodal Institute. In 2002, he was appointed by Governor Mark Warner to the Council on the Southern Community of the Southern Growth Policies Board.
Dendy has been appointed and reappointed to the Board of Trustees of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, a state agency, by six Virginia Governors of both parties. He served as Chairman for nine years and is currently Chairman Emeritus. In 2003, he was appointed by the United States Secretary of the Interior to the Federal Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission and served as the Federal Commission's Vice Chairman. From 2013 – 2020, Dendy served on the Executive Committee of the American Evolution 2019 Commemoration which highlighted the 400th anniversary of key historical events that occurred in Virginia in 1619 that continue to influence our world today. These events were the anniversary of the first representative assembly in the New World, the arrival of the first recorded African slaves to English North America, the arrival of the first English women in significant numbers and the first official English Thanksgiving.
He served on the Board of Trustees of the Valentine Richmond History Center for 14 years and is a former director of the Virginia YMCA and the Maymont Foundation. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Council of Young Political Leaders, a core grantee of the United States Department of State that conducts international exchange programs for young governmental leaders. He is a member of the Honorary Council to the St. George's Foundation in Bermuda. Dendy also has extensive experience in helping international corporations develop business in this country.
Dendy graduated from the University of Richmond, magna cum laude, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. A member of Second Presbyterian Church, Dendy serves as an elder. He and his late wife, Stacey, had three children. The family enjoys skiing at Wintergreen and spending time in the summer at Virginia Beach.
He has served as Chairman of The Advocacy Group, the premier municipal, state, federal and international government and public affairs organization in the world and currently serves on its board of directors. Dendy was one of the first 24 government relations professionals nationwide to complete the State Government Affairs Council Professional Certification Program in 2012 and currently has completed the Council's silver level program for advanced certification.
8046446600
707 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 1800, RICHMOND, VA, 23219,
804-644-6600
919 East Main Street, Suite 1550, Richmond, VA, 23219,
5712498784
7900 Westpark Drive, Suite T500, Tysons, VA, 22102,
571-620-7958
7900 Westpark Drive, Tysons, VA, 22102,
2026217122
1275 K Street, NW, Suite 850, Washington, DC, 20005,
707 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 1800, RICHMOND, VA, 23219,
571.620.7966
7900 Westpark Drive, Suite T500, Tysons, VA, 22102,
1275 K Street, NW, Suite 850, Washington, DC, 20005,
1) 3M Company
2) A&J Capital
10) Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc.
11) Florida Crystals Corporation
12) Florida Rural Economic Development Association, Inc.
13) Gold Coast Florida Regional Center
14) Intuit, Inc.
571-620-7954
7900 Westpark Drive, Suite T500, Tysons, VA, 22102,
571-326-5609
7900 Westpark Drive, Suite T500, Tysons, VA, 22102,
5715023060
7900 Westpark Drive, Suite T500, Tysons, VA, 22102,
804-644-6600
919 East Main Street, Suite 1550, Richmond, VA, 23219,
1) Adobe
2) AECOM
4) American Promotional Events, Inc.
5) Coalition for Responsible Beneficiary Funding
6) Communities in Schools of Virginia
9) LEGO Manufacturing Richmond
10) MGM Resorts International Operations, Inc.
804-644-6600
919 East Main Street, Suite 1550, Richmond, VA, 23219,
2024576559
2550 M STREET, NW, WASHINGTON, DC, 20037,
1) Abrasive Blasting Manufacturers Alliance
2) Advanced Emissions Solutions, Inc.
6) American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC)
7) American Staffing Association
8) American Water Works Association
9) Americans for Carbon Dividends
10) Aon Hewitt
11) Association of American Medical Colleges
12) Association of American Railroads
13) Association of Institutional Investors
14) Atlanticus Holding Corporation
15) Autodesk, Inc.
16) Barnard Construction Company, Inc
17) Bella Group
19) Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
20) Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney obo MDG Contracting and Environmental Solutions
21) Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC obo Murray Hill Group, Inc.
22) Cafaro Company
23) California Steel Industries, Inc.
24) Calvary Hospital
25) Camera Ecuatoriano Americana de Comercio Guayaquil
26) Care.com
28) Central Ohio Transit Authority
29) Cerberus Capital Management
30) Chatham Area Transit (CAT)
31) Children's Tumor Foundation
33) City of Boise
35) City of Detroit
38) City of Mesa
40) City of Philadelphia - Division of Aviation
41) City of Portland
43) City of South San Francisco
44) Commerce City
45) CRRC Sifang America Incorporated
46) CTL Energy, Inc. formerly Somerset Coal International
47) Cuyahoga County
50) Denver Regional Transportation District
51) Denver Water
52) DexCom, Inc.
55) Energy Marketers of America
56) Equinix
57) Fenicia Bank SAL
59) Forest City Realty Trust, Inc.
61) Goodnight Midstream, LLC (formerly 1804 Operating, LLC)
62) Government of U.S. Virgin Islands
63) Grand Rapids Public Museum
64) Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance, Inc.
66) HeartFlow, Inc.
68) Hexion, Inc.
70) Huntington Ingalls Incorporated
71) IAC
72) IBL Bank SAL
73) iFoodDecisionSciences, Inc.
75) Infra-Bk, LLC
78) Jabil, Inc.
81) Jubilant Pharma Holdings Inc.
82) JUUL Labs, Inc.
84) La Maestra Family Clinic, Inc.
85) Leon County Attorneys Office
88) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
90) M1 Group
91) Madison Marquette Realty Services L.P.
92) Management and Training Corporation
93) Marriott International, Inc.
95) Match Group
96) MEAB SAL
97) Melaleuca, Inc.
98) MetaBank
99) Metropolitan District Commission of Connecticut
100) MGM Resorts International
101) Miami-Dade County
102) MicroPact
103) Midland Business Alliance
104) Momentive Performance Materials
105) Multnomah County
106) musicFIRST
107) National Air Traffic Controllers Association
108) National Association for Oilheat Research and Education
109) National Cannabis Roundtable
110) National Flea Market Association
111) NetJets
112) NLMK Pennsylvania
113) North Carolina Biotechnology Center
114) Oceus Networks
115) OCLC
116) Office of the Governor, State of Colorado
117) Ohio University
118) Olin Corporation
119) Owens Corning
120) Panasonic Avionics Corporation
122) Park-Ohio Industries, Inc.
123) Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare
124) Piaggio Group Americas, Inc.
126) Policy and Taxation Group
127) Ready Colorado
128) Rendeavour Holding Limited
129) Republic Steel
132) Solar Energy Industries Association
133) SpaceX
134) Study Edge
135) SYMX Holdings
136) TATA Consultancy Services
138) The Advocacy Group at Cardenas Partners LLC on behalf of Ocala, FL
140) The Mosaic Company
142) The Procter and Gamble Company
145) Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation
146) Thomas Jefferson University
147) Tinuum Group LLC
148) TOTAL S.A.
149) TransDigm Group Incorporated
151) Transurban (USA) Inc
152) Trojan Technologies
153) TruGreen Limited Partnership
154) Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation
156) Unione Italiana Vini on behalf of Taub Family Companies
157) United Rentals, Inc.
158) United States Council for International Business
159) United States Infrastructure Corporation
160) United Work & Travel
161) Universities Space Research Association
163) Urban Ecology Center (UEC)
164) Verified Voting
165) Wake Forest University Health Sciences
166) Walton Enterprises
167) Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
170) Westinghouse Electric Company
171) Wheel Pros, LLC
172) Xavier University School of Medicine
173) Yelp, Inc.
