Rich DiClaudio

Advisor, President and CEO of the Energy Innovation Center Institute (EICI), Purposed Vision's founding Fiscal Agent.

Rich is a founding board member of the EICI.

Located in Pittsburgh's Hill District, the EICI is a 501.c.3 organization, whose mission is to help transform how people learn, work, and power ourselves in sustainable and equitable ways for the 21st Century economy. Under Rich’s leadership, the EICI has grown to become a key anchor in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Innovation District and globally recognized for its innovation in energy technology, adaptive reuse of established commercial buildings, smart building technologies and ground-breaking corporate-lead workforce development programs focusing on those with large barriers to workforce entry.

The EICI is also a nationally recognized think-tank that helps drive pioneering dialogue and advancement in mission aligned environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) principles through its curated events and conferences (averaging about 17,000 attendees per year). The energy ecosystem of companies, universities, government agencies and mission aligned non-profits that the EICI helped assemble under one roof has made it a national leader in successfully deploying economic and workforce development strategies in economically distressed neighborhoods, many of which are now designated as Opportunity Zones. This ecosystem has been capitalized with over $100 million to date.

Additionally, in 2017 Rich co-founded the Critical Infrastructure Workforce Academy (‘CIWA’), www.ciwausa.com, with the Armstrong County Industrial Redevelopment Authority, and several national energy, utility, and construction companies. Rich served as CIWA’s founding CEO until June of 2019, when he hired a CEO and moved to Managing Board Chair. CIWA is located on the 900 acre Northpointe Campus, in the Armstrong County Technology Park, and supports the workforce development, training and certification needs for Western PA, Northern WV and Eastern OH.

Early in 2019, Rich co-founded, along with the other five Managing Directors, the Bedford Funds, LP, www.bedfordfunds.com. Bedford is pursuing a unique blended-risk operating and technology company investment strategy that moves good paying jobs into Opportunity Zones throughout the United States. Built on a foundation of the highest ethical standards and trust, Bedford strives in its commitment to excellence, transparency, and wealth creation, and to prove that investors can do well and do good by contributing measurably to the common good.

Over his career, Rich has overseen approximately $940.0 million of Assets Under Management (“AUM”) in positions of leadership at various family offices, funds, and endowments. In those positions Rich has built, developed, and exited multiple private equity portfolios generating solid realized return outcomes over his career.

Rich serves on the board of several companies and organizations, typically in positions of leadership. These include:

Board Member, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Insurance Services Division (Health Plan)
Trustee and Executive Committee, Saint Vincent College, Chairman Finance & Audit Committees, Chairman $115+ million endowment committee
Regent and Treasurer, Saint Vincent Seminary, Co-chair Accreditation Committee
Board member of IoT tech company, Building Ideas Group, LLC (BIG)
Board Member, Emmaus Road Publishing House (largest Catholic Academic Publishing House in North America)
Board Member, Saint Paul’s Center for Biblical Theology (Scott Hahn's organization), Chair of the $11+ million Endowment Committee
Member, United States White House Committee for Urban Redevelopment and Revitalization – Opportunity Zones Affinity Group (OZAG) convening association
- This council also includes the leadership of many of the nation’s leading philanthropic endowments as they understand their roles with OZFs and work toward a formal collective impact program.
Prior Board positions include several positions at for-profit (including publicly listed corporations), not-for-profit, and faith-based organizations, as well as 3 terms as an elected school board director serving 5 of those years as elected board president.

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