Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies

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Executive Vice Chairman

Jay Diedzic - ISIT

Mr. Matthew “Jay” Diedzic, Jr., P.E. has more than 35 years of leadership, management, entrepreneurial, science and technology, investment, research and development, and fundraising experience addressing global energy, water, and environmental challenges.

Mr. Diedzic contributed to the Energy-Water-Environment Nexus by originating, developing, managing, investing, and/or monetizing a diverse domestic and international project portfolio involving conventional energy, 24/7 carbon free energy, and water quality-related projects, including founding and growing in four (4) years a $2 billion oil & gas investment subsidiary for a Detroit-based natural gas distribution company.

These projects also included regulated electric and gas utility-related nuclear, geothermal, grid-scale solar, offshore wind, and tidal energy; non-regulated oil and gas exploration and production, natural gas/coal-to-liquids, hydrogen, and synthetic fuel production; university-led algal-based biofuels, autonomous unmanned aerial, surface and underwater vehicles for ocean exploration and observation, and harmful algal bloom (HAB) and red tide detection and mitigation technologies; and federal and state public-private partnerships.

Mr. Diedzic has consulted for the University of South Carolina (USC).  His USC efforts focused on the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Savannah River Site (SRS) and U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) Mobile Energy and Power initiatives (MEP) initiatives.

AFC MEP-related initiatives involved developing and applying USC technologies for reducing and/or eliminating costly and hazardous military fuel and water resupply lines for facilitating the Army’s global Multi-Domain Operations.  One of these initiatives included designing a truly mobile kilowatt-scale microreactor for expeditionary and operational energy applications.

Mr. Diedzic graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and a MBA from the University’s Ross School of Business.  Mr. Diedzic completed graduate courses for a master’s in nuclear physics at Wayne State University and additional energy course work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Michigan.  Mr. Diedzic holds two U.S. patents involving electric power transmission.