Our Team
David Dieterich
David Dieterich has consistently demonstrated his efficiency as an executive leader and strategist in navigating the Federal and state legislative landscape, as well as the nuances of operating organizations effectively on a scale from Department head to Corporate Officer.
His business background includes service for a high net worth individual and assisted in his ascension into the Forbes 400. As part of his duties, he served as a corporate secretary for a 1 billion dollar + public company, oversaw the running of a hospitality division and negotiated a lucrative relationship with the Vatican City State among other multi-million dollar transactions. He has also participated in several turnarounds, utilizing his M&A background. Further, he received his corporate under-pinning’s working for the Chrysler Corporation and Anheuser-Busch. Dieterich also established a private consulting and lobbying practice engaged in healthcare, whereby clients were supported in nearly forty state capitols and in Washington, DC. In addition, he has sat and currently does sit on several Boards.
Dieterich’s education includes undergraduate and graduate school at Southern Methodist University and California State University. He resides in northern Virginia.
Michael Hsieh, PhD
Michael Hsieh is an experienced adviser to multiple commercial, nonprofit and academic organizations seeking R&D funding from the ARPAs (e.g., DARPA, ARPA-H, IARPA). He previously served as a program manager at the Information Innovation Office (I2O) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He led programs with total budgets of $146M+ in secure computation, secure data and data analysis at scale.
Prior to DARPA, he was senior staff scientist at multiple industry laboratories, where he led a variety of projects including quantum information science, ISR, biometrics and open-source data analysis. He also held senior technical advisory roles at DARPA, where he supported a variety of programs in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) and the Tactical Technologies Office (TTO). After DARPA, he was a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow, and served as a Track 1.5 interlocutor with multiple allied governments and defense ministries developing their own ARPA-like organizations.
He is a recipient of the Office of Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Achievement for his work at DARPA. He received a BA in mathematics and a BA in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in quantum chemistry from Princeton University, where he was a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California and HRL Laboratories.
He has 17 peer-reviewed technical publications in quantum chemistry, control theory and numerical methods, in publications including Science, Physical Review, and the Journal of Mathematical Physics.
