Brigadier General Max J. Stitzer, USAF (Ret.)
Strategic Advisor | Defense, Logistics & Industrial Base
Brigadier General Max J. Stitzer brings four decades of executive leadership across military, federal, private sector, and non-profit organizations, with deep expertise in enterprise supply chain management, weapons system sustainment, life-cycle logistics, and critical infrastructure.
A Weber State University graduate and commissioned Air Force officer, General Stitzer served in tactical, operational, and strategic environments across multiple combat deployments and senior staff assignments worldwide. Over a combined seven years at the Pentagon, he served on the Air Staff at Headquarters United States Air Force and completed two tours with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Directorate for Logistics, where he functioned as a principal advisor on global operations, organic and private sector industrial base policy, and global force employment and campaign planning.
His record spans command of maintenance and logistics organizations at every level, leadership of the Air Force Reserve’s largest squadron in Operation Enduring Freedom, and joint duty assignments across the Indo-Pacific and Combined Forces Command.
General Stitzer brings that enterprise and global executive perspective to his work with Black Star Syndicate, where he advises on bringing critical technology to operational viability and into the hands of warfighters, while strengthening the defense industrial base that underpins national security and economic prosperity.
