Christina A. Lomasney

Ms. Christina A. Lomasney is a veteran entrepreneur with two decades of experience in technology innovation and commercialization. She joined the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as Chief Commercialization Officer in 2021, leading industrial partnerships to expand the market impact of the national laboratory’s multibillion-dollar research portfolio.

Before joining the national laboratory, Ms. Lomasney was a successful serial entrepreneur, deploying advanced materials and environmental remediation innovations to U.S. and global markets. She is a physicist with a deep background in materials science and electrochemistry. She was named among the Top 100 Women in Tech (Seattle), an IHS Energy Innovation Pioneer and Fortune Magazine Most Promising Entrepreneur.

Ms. Lomasney founded Modumetal, Inc., a Seattle-based company that develops and commercializes a novel class of nanostructured materials. While at Modumetal, she raised more than $100 million in equity and non-equity funding. As founder and CEO for over a decade, she created and scaled the company from concept to a global manufacturing concern, forging customer partnerships with several Fortune 500 companies. Prior to this, she founded Isotron Corp., which developed and deployed US defense and nuclear remediation technologies for use in large-scale applications.

Ms. Lomasney serves by gubernatorial appointment on the board for JCDREAM, securing supply chains for critical materials in the State of Washington. She also serves as a board member of the Association of Washington Business Institute, a fellow with the Unreasonable Group, and a mentor in intellectual property strategy with Founders Institute. She is an Entrepreneur in Residence with Washington State University Tri-Cities and previously served as a commissioner on the Washington Economic Development Commission.

Ms. Lomasney earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from the University of Washington in Seattle. She is named an inventor in multiple electrochemistry, manufacturing and advanced materials patents. She is a doctoral candidate in engineering at George Washington University.