Anthony Beverina '88 was inducted into the Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Society of Distinguished Alumni at a banquet held October 9, 2025. 

Beverina is a technology executive, strategist, investor and advisor, having created businesses in both commercial and public sector markets. He is a proud graduate of Virginia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering which he calls “God’s chosen profession.”  Additionally, he holds a master’s degree in material science from the University of Virginia.  

Over the course of his career, Beverina has founded four analytics firms and guided them through multiple rounds of financing, growth, and exit. He started his career as a mechanical designer working on fighter aircraft and later gravitated to modeling, simulation, and artificial intelligence working on a variety of intelligence and national security applications at Kaman Sciences (Now ITT) and Sonalysts, Inc.  In 1999, he co-founded Digital Sandbox, an analytics company based in Northern Virginia that provided advanced risk analytics to commercial and public sector companies in the national security, corporate security, and public safety markets. After 14 years, Haystax Technology acquired Digital Sandbox in 2013 (now rebranded as Secure Passage). After that exit, Beverina focused on investing in, and incubating, technology businesses across multiple industry sectors. These include the areas of national security, healthcare, and financial services.

An Engineer at heart, Beverina has remained active in the Virginia Tech Ecosystem.  He was a founding board member of the Apex Center for Entrepreneurs and a founding member of the Virginia Tech Investor Network, participating in and leading rounds of angel investment for Hokie-led businesses.  In 2023, he and a group of friends and fellow alumni endowed the Kidwell Scholarship in the College of Engineering for students with financial need from Virginia seeking an engineering education. He and his wife Cecilia co-own own a home in Blacksburg with two other mechanical engineering alumni and maintain strong relationships with many other alumni to this day.