John Sneed was appointed by the President to serve as Director of the Loan Programs Office (LPO) at the U.S. Department of Energy from January through March 2025. He previously served as Executive Director of LPO from 2017 to 2019, before stepping into the Chief of Staff role to Secretary of Energy Rick Perry in 2019. During his time at DOE, John also served as the Chair of the Project Management Risk Committee from 2018 to 2019. Prior to DOE, John was the Executive Director of the Texas State Preservation Board from 2008 to 2016, and, from 2020 to 2024, he managed an independent consulting practice. John oversees the program’s portfolio of loans and loan guarantees to innovative clean energy and advanced technology vehicles manufacturing projects.