Guy Diedrich is a Vice Chancellor for the Texas A&M System and is responsible for technology commercialization, research and federal relations. The Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) commercializes the most promising intellectual properties resulting from the $620 million dollars of annual research funds awarded to the nine universities, seven agencies and health science center that comprise the Texas A&M System. Mr. Diedrich served for eleven years as President and CEO of GRA Inc., a software development and consulting company that he co-founded and grew from a start-up to a firm employing more than 130 professionals. GRA was acquired in 1998 by a publicly-traded technology company. He also served as President of Austin Technology Ventures, a firm that invests in software, hardware and biotechnology companies.

Mr. Diedrich is a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Institute for Genomic Medicine, Texas Life Science Center, American Trauma Society, Texas A&M College of Science, Royal Economic Society, and Society of Business Economists. He is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Cambridge where he is researching the economic value of trust in organizations as a member of King’s College. He is a reviewer for the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and is a published author in the fields of medical psychology and cost accounting.