Speaker Biographies

Don LaMonaca is the Business Line Director for Battelle’s Critical Infrastructure Business Line. With roughly 300 staff located across the United States, CIBL delivers innovative technology-based solutions and technical services to improve resiliency, safety, and security across the energy and transportation sectors. Currently, Don is leading the development and execution of long-term growth strategies in carbon capture and storage, low carbon energy, clean transportation, and infrastructure resiliency markets. Don has over 30 years of experience advancing critical infrastructure technologies and solutions, including over 25 years with Battelle. Don began his career with Battelle as an engineer then program manager for aviation and transportation technology research, development, test and evaluation programs. Don holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the College of New Jersey and a Master of Business Administration degree from Rutgers University. He and his wife, Gabrielle, live in southern New Jersey along with their two sons, Sam and Jake. DON LAMONACA Business Line Director, Critical Infrastructure, Battelle

SENATOR JOE MANCHIN U.S. Senator for West Virginia

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) was sworn into the United States Senate on November 15, 2010 to fill the seat left vacant by the late Senator Robert C. Byrd. For Senator Manchin, serving as West Virginia's Senator is truly an honor and a privilege. Born and raised in the small coal mining town of Farmington, W.Va., Sen. Manchin grew up learning the values that all West Virginians share — family, common sense, fairness and hard work. As a small businessman, he learned firsthand from his grandfather, Papa Joe, who was an Italian immigrant and the town grocer, the importance of serving the public. As a young man, his beloved grandmother, Mama Kay, inspired Senator Manchin's belief in public service through her unflagging compassion and desire to help those less fortunate. Senator Manchin is an avid pilot, outdoorsman, hunter, angler and motorcyclist. He has been married for more than five decades to the former Gayle Conelly of Beckley. They have three children: Heather, Joseph IV and Brooke, and are the proud grandparents of Joseph V, Sophie, Kelsey, Madeline, Chloe, Jack, Carly, Vivian, Beaux and Knox.

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