Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan was named Executive Vice President, Regulatory Services & Government Affairs at CenterPoint Energy following service as the company’s general counsel and in other legal leadership positions. In his current role, Ryan leads colleagues on the rates and regulatory policy team; the regulatory accounting team; the regulatory legal team; and the local, state, and federal government affairs team.

Ryan joined CenterPoint Energy in 2009, after representing the company as outside regulatory counsel for nearly a decade.  Before that, he was a managing partner at energy law firm RyanGlover LLP and a global projects attorney at Baker Botts LLP.

Ryan earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with honors from the University of Texas at Austin. He received his law degree with honors from the University of Texas School of Law.  Ryan served as an Information Dominance Warfare Officer in the United States Navy from 2005 to 2015.  He was appointed by Governor Rick Perry to the Texas Diabetes Council in 2013 for a six-year term ending in 2019; he was reappointed by Governor Greg Abbott in 2019 for a term ending in 2025.

Ryan currently serves on the board of the Lone Star Flight Museum and on the Legislative Committee of the Texas Access to Justice Commission. He is also a board member of the Association of Electric Companies of Texas and a member of the executive committee of the legal committee of the American Gas Association.

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) is an energy delivery company with electric transmission and distribution, power generation and natural gas distribution operations that serve more than 7 million metered customers in Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas. With approximately 9,600 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 150 years.