Donald Alway is the Vice President of Corporate Security at Charter Communications, where he leads efforts to protect Charter employees, customers, and infrastructure. He was the former Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Los Angeles Office. Mr. Alway previously served as the Assistant Director of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate at FBI Headquarters. He joined the FBI in 1996, and was first assigned to the Los Angeles Office, where he investigated drug trafficking organizations. After the 9/11 attacks, he assisted at the crime scenes in NYC and at the Pentagon. Mr. Alway was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent in the Counterterrorism Division at Headquarters in 2003. He served as the Deputy-On-Scene Commander in the Iraq Theatre of Operations for the Regimes Crimes Task Force in 2005, then worked as the Acting Legal Attaché in Doha, Qatar.
In 2007, Mr. Alway transferred to the NYC Office to supervise a joint terrorism task force squad, specialized responses, and special event planning. He was promoted in 2011 to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the National Security Branch in the Cincinnati Field Office. Mr. Alway returned to HQ. in 2012 as a Section Chief in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, which investigates, prevents, counters, and responds to weapons of mass destruction threats and events. He left the WMDD in 2014 when he was appointed Special Agent in Charge of the Jackson Field Office in Mississippi. He was appointed Assistant Director of the Training Division in 2018. The Training Division, based in Quantico, Virginia, provides training for FBI Agents, Analysts, and other specialized law enforcement training. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Alway was a deputy sheriff in Los Angeles. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California and master's degrees from California State University at Long Beach. He received the Presidential Rank Award in 2023 and the Director's Award for Excellence in 2009.