Special Guests

Joe Dittmar is Branch Property Manager in Richmond, VA for Colony Insurance Company, part of the Argo Group. He is a 29-year veteran of the business and has held similar senior management positions at Lexington Insurance (AIG), Allianz Global Risks US Insurance, CNA Insurance Company and Wausau/ Liberty Mutual Insurance. A native of Philadelphia, PA, he moved to the Chicago area in 1997and on to DC in April of 2006. On September 11, 2001, Joe was attending a normal business meeting with representatives of various commercial insurance carriers at the NYC offices of Chicago-based AON Corporation- on the 105th floor of Two World Trade Center. One of only seven survivors of the meeting of 54 insurance executives, Joe's sharing of his experience of that day gives an informational, historical, inspirational and even motivational insight into one of the most incredible events in US and World history. Joe is a Gaithersburg, MD resident, devoted husband and a father of four, grandfather of one and is a founding member of the Naperville 9/11 Memorial Commission and the Willow House 9/11 Survivors' support group.