Jay
Tilden
Jay Tilden is Managing Director for National Security at Mission Strategies — leading the firm's national security and energy security practice after 35 years of service at the U.S. Department of Energy, 13 as a member of the Senior Executive Service.
Background
Jay recently retired from the U.S. Department of Energy after 35 years of service. Jay last served as Director of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence — the department's most senior intelligence and counterintelligence officer. In this role, Jay led the department's nuclear, energy, and cyber intelligence as well as counterintelligence missions across DOE's headquarters, national laboratories, plants, and sites, and was a key liaison between the intelligence community and the electric, oil and natural gas sectors on threat information sharing.
Prior to that role, Jay served as Deputy Under Secretary for Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), overseeing a $430 million operating budget and leading federal and national laboratory efforts on nuclear counterterrorism, counterproliferation, nuclear forensics, and nuclear incident response.
Jay is a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Army, serving in both active and reserve capacities as a Counterintelligence Technician.
