Ravencroft is the charitable initiative of Brad Hobbs and family, four decades of building businesses and giving back to the communities that built them.
The giving has grown alongside the business, in every community it serves.
Hobbs & Associates is founded as a family-owned HVAC business serving Hampton Roads.
Brad earns his finance degree from the Pamplin College of Business, the start of a lifelong relationship with the university.
Over 25 years Brad grows the firm into one of the nation's largest engineered product distributors, with ten locations across Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland, and Washington DC.
Appointed by Governor Glenn Youngkin to the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, serving on the Finance and Resource Management Committee and the Academic, Research, and Student Affairs Committee.
Hobbs & Associates becomes the cornerstone of AIR Control Concepts, the world's largest platform of HVAC, electrical, and controls companies, headquartered in Norfolk with operations across North America and Europe and more than 2,000 employees. Virginia Tech's board closes his term with a formal resolution honoring his service and generosity.
Named a statewide Virginia Business Top C-Suite Award winner, honoring leadership, integrity, and community engagement, and asked to serve on Virginia Tech's eight-member head football coach search committee alongside Bruce Arians, Bud Foster, and Lynne Doughtie.
Hand-picked as founding chair of the board of Hokie Ventures, the new nonprofit charged with securing the long-term future of Virginia Tech athletics. He works directly with the university's president, athletics director, and Board of Visitors to recruit and build the board itself.
Years of service and support for the organization's work with families in need across Hampton Roads.
Board involvement and fundraising with the AHA's Hampton Roads chapter in the fight against heart disease.
Support for faith-based education and the students and teachers who make it work.
A home church and a constant in the family's life of faith and service.
Board service with the Virginia Beach tradition that draws the whole region to the oceanfront every fall.
Longtime Athletic Fund board member and generous supporter of Virginia Tech's tennis programs.
A prolific fundraiser and generous donor who invests in the communities where his business operates and his customers live.
Virginia Tech Board of VisitorsBrad Hobbs took a family HVAC firm founded in 1984 and built it into one of the nation's largest engineered product distributors, then into AIR Control Concepts, the world's largest platform of HVAC, electrical, and controls companies. Through every stage of that growth, the giving came first: church, schools, health causes, civic life, and Virginia Tech.
He and his wife Molly live in Virginia Beach with their five children. Faith and family come first, and they believe the measure of a business is what it gives back to the people around it.
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