Jim LeMunyon

Jim LeMunyon

Senior Advisor for Industry Relations

Jim LeMunyon is CCIA’s Senior Advisor for Industry Relations, and is responsible for membership development and special projects that benefit CCIA’s member companies.

Concurrent with his work at CCIA, Jim serves in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing citizens in Western Fairfax and East Loudoun Counties.  He is a member of three committees: Education, Science and Technology, and Counties Cities, and Towns

As a technology company entrepreneur for more than 20 years, Jim has also built technology businesses. This includes his role as the co-founding President of Sterling Semiconductor, now a unit of Dow Corning, which produces an advanced electronic material needed for electric cars and energy efficient lighting. Jim recently headed HexaTech, a company that is developing novel sources of ultra-violet light for water purification, and new components for wireless communication systems.

In the federal government, Jim served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 1989-1993, managing the day-to-day operations of export controls on commercial goods and technology.  Early in his career, Jim served as chief-of-staff to Republican Congressman Ed Zschau from California’s Silicon Valley.

In addition to business and government, Jim was an adjunct faculty member of the George Mason University international transactions graduate program during the 1990s.

Jim graduated from Valparaiso University with a B.S. in physics and mathematics. He earned a M.S. in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin on a NASA scholarship.