Diode Ventures President

 

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Company : Diode Ventures, LLC.  

Req Id : 112876 

Opportunity Type : Staff 

Relocation eligible : No 

Full time/Part time : Full-Time  

Project Only Hire : No 

Visa Sponsorship Available: No 

Our Client

Diode Ventures is an infrastructure development company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Black & Veatch. Diode partners with commercial, industrial, and technology-sector customers to develop and deliver innovative energy and data infrastructure solutions, leveraging site selection, comprehensive project development, strategic partnerships, and broader Black & Veatch capabilities.

Purpose-built around client needs, Diode’s platform is designed to help organizations secure reliable, cost-effective, and more sustainable infrastructure while reducing complexity and execution risk. The business develops and structures projects across energy and data infrastructure markets—supporting everything from making sites “shovel-ready” to delivering critical off-site utilities and connectivity.

With the depth of Black & Veatch’s engineering heritage and global footprint behind it, Diode combines developer mindset with world-class technical and delivery capabilities—bringing together development expertise, partner ecosystems, and end-to-end execution to help clients build, scale, and operate essential infrastructure in today’s rapidly evolving energy and digital economy.

 

For more information, please visit: https://www.diodeventures.com/

The Opportunity

The President of Diode Ventures is the chief executive of the subsidiary and is accountable for enterprise strategy, commercial performance, operating execution, and financial results. This role calls for an entrepreneurial, market-facing leader who can anticipate demand, convert it into a scalable pipeline, and drive a repeatable origination-to-transaction operating model. The President will set and execute the growth agenda, build and deepen relationships across hyperscalers and the broader infrastructure ecosystem, and increase development throughput and transaction velocity. A critical mandate is to strengthen alignment and collaboration with Black & Veatch—leveraging the brand, capabilities, and relationships of the parent—while preserving the agility and speed of an asset-light, project-based platform.

Diode President will report directly to the Board of Diode and will be a member of the Black & Veatch Executive Leadership Team. The President will lead a ~30-person organization and high functioning leadership team including a seasoned, long-tenured COO, CFO, Project Finance leader, and leader of business development and origination. . The President will establish clear priorities, performance standards, and operating cadence; lead key talent decisions; and evaluate adjacent growth opportunities over time while maintaining focus on the core digital strategy and ensuring strong governance and cultural continuity.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial, commercially driven infrastructure development leader with a deep understanding of the digital sector and how hyperscalers make siting and procurement decisions. They bring a demonstrated track record of originating opportunities and advancing projects through the front-end “heavy lift” required to create shovel-ready outcomes—site control and land optioning, zoning and permitting, stakeholder and incentives strategy, and early interconnection work/queue positioning—positioning projects for transaction at or near FID. They are an effective relationship-builder and negotiator with strong commercial judgment, capable of structuring creative, repeatable solutions in an asset-light, project-based model, including comfort with evolving partnership and ownership structures.

This leader pairs strategic vision with operating discipline—setting priorities, driving accountability, and building a high-velocity development and transaction cadence across a lean organization. They have the presence to mobilize internal and external stakeholders, effectively leverage Black & Veatch’s resources