Matthew “Jay” Diedzic, Jr., P.E.
Mr. Diedzic 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 within four (4) years a $2 billion oil & gas exploration and production investment subsidiary for a Detroit-based natural gas distribution holding company.
These projects included regulated electric and gas utility company 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 facilities; university algae-to-biofuels programs, autonomous unmanned aerial, surface and underwater vehicles for ocean exploration and observation technologies, and harmful algal bloom (HAB) and Red Tide detection and mitigation technologies; and federal and state public-private partnerships.
For five (5) years prior to the formation of MobileNuclear Energy LLC in 2022, Mr. Diedzic consulted for the University of South Carolina (USC). Mr. Diedzic’s 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 (MEP) initiatives.
USC-related projects included facilitating USC’s direct engagement in SRS and Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) Management and Operations and developed a SRS Sustainable Energy and Advanced Manufacturing (SEAM) Complex. SEAM was a “commercially driven”, public-private partnership for deploying advanced nuclear reactor technologies and other sustainable energy technologies for consuming DoE’s nuclear waste stored at SRS and producing/manufacturing commercial and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) products and services including electricity, hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia for regional markets.
AFC MEP initiatives involved developing and applying USC research and technologies for reducing costly and hazardous military fuel and water resupply lines for facilitating the Army’s global Multi-Domain Operations. One of these initiatives was developing and demonstrating a very small mobile reactor (VSMR) focused on expeditionary energy applications and invented by USC, which led to the establishment of MobileNuclear Energy. The Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies (ISIT), a Texas-based 501(c)(3) non-profit research and development organization assimilated MobileNuclear Energy on January 1, 2024.
Mr. Diedzic graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and a master’s in business administration 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 coursework 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 and submitted a provisional patent, along with USC’s Dr. Travis Knight, for the very small mobile reactor. Mr. Diedzic is also a Vice President at the Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies (ISIT).