Alliance for Action Announces New Board Leadership

Amanda Del Bene, Investment Banker, First Woman to Serve as Board Chair

On Dec 20, 2021

The New Jersey Alliance for Action has elected its first woman to serve as board chair, Amanda Del Bene, managing director of Public Finance Investment Banking at Raymond James & Associates, Inc. She was selected by the Alliance for Action board of directors at its year-end meeting. The new Alliance board leadership team will be:

• Amanda Del Bene, managing director of Public Finance Investment Banking at Raymond James & Associates, Inc., chairperson
• Charles Manning, P.E., managing director, Global Infrastructure Solutions Inc., first vice chair
• Joseph Demark, president and business manager, Sheet Metal Workers Local 25 and president of the NJ State Association of Sheet Metal Workers, second vice chair
• Robert C. Gerard, senior client manager, Holt Construction, treasurer
• Kevin O’Keefe, R.S. Knapp Co., Inc./NAPCO, owner, secretary

Said Del Bene: “I am deeply honored that my peers have selected me to take on the role of chair. I know the history of this organization and its unparalleled advocacy for infrastructure and the leveraged economic benefit that comes with it. Throughout the last seven years serving on the board’s executive committee, I have worked to bring my knowledge of capital finance to support the infrastructure needs of New Jersey. I will continue to work to advance the mission of the Alliance on behalf of our members”.

“In my role as Alliance for Action president, I have called upon Amanda Del Bene often during her time on the board. We are truly fortunate that Amanda is taking the next step and will serve as our Chair during the most important years in our organization’s history”, said Alliance for Action President Gerald T. Keenan.

The New Jersey Alliance for Action is a non-partisan and non-profit association of business, labor, government and professionals dedicated to creating jobs and improving the economy through the development of environmentally-friendly infrastructure improvements and capital construction. It has championed a diverse array of infrastructure issues over its history, including bond issues for water infrastructure and higher education, funding for New Jersey’s transportation system, utility investment and many other investments.

More than 5,000 business, labor, government, utility, higher education and other New Jersey leaders attended 34 Alliance for Action events in 2021 and received first-hand information about a wide variety of upcoming infrastructure and capital investments.

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