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Don assumed l eadership of LMI on January 1, 2002. LMI is a $125M government-consulting firm that specializes in logistics and infrastructure management, information technology, human resources and financial resources planning. Before becoming the President/CEO of LMI, Don served as Vice President for Strategic Planning at Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI).

Before his time with Battelle and LMI, Don's career was with the U.S. Navy. He commanded a warship; a destroyer squadron; a cruiser destroyer group; a carrier battle group; the U.S. Sixth Fleet; and NATO's Naval Striking and Support Forces Southern Europe .

Ashore, Don was assigned to a variety of defense resources and planning billets. In his earlier career, he served four years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (PA&E). As a more senior officer, he served as a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution in 1985-86. A member of the National Security Council staff from 1989 until 1992, Don was selected to flag rank in 1989 while serving there. From 1993 to 1995, he was the Director for Programming on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations, and later served as the Navy's Chief Financial Officer from July 1996 to November 1997. He assumed duties as the 30th Vice Chief of Naval Operations, the Navy's Chief Operating Officer and second-ranking officer, from November 1997 until his retirement from active service in October 2000.

He is a member of the Defense Science Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the White House Fellows Commission. He is on the Board of Trustees/Advisors at the Naval War College, the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, and the National Defense Industrial Association. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

B.S., Engineering , U.S. Naval Academy (1965)
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Cambridge (1970)