With the 20+ years of extensive issue, program, and advocacy experience in international, federal, state, and local government affairs, John has become one of the most effective and sought-after public affairs and association management professionals in the US. He was the 2019 recipient of the Reed Award for Best Trade Association Grassroots Advocate in the US and up until Dec 31st of 2020, was head all State and Local Gov’t. Affairs as Senior Vice President of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association and created/managed their “Build With Strength” coalition. While there he was responsible for the passage of many pieces of legislation and regulation, including language 37 Governors’ Executive Orders during the covid-related shutdown to declare construction an "essential service" in those jurisdictions, and where he had the honor of sitting on Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D- NJ) transition team in 2017. Currently, he is Head of all Government and Public Affairs for Somfy Americas, the market leader in automated solar shading, and Host of the “Political Shadings” podcast.
He has served as Head of State Government Affairs for the American Institute of Architects
(AIA), where he spearheaded the effort to create the International Green Construction Code in partnership with the International Code Council (ICC) and co-authored the proposal that became Chapter 5 of the International Energy Conservation Code. While there, he also oversaw all legislative and regulatory efforts including all fifty state chapters’ strategic agendas and PACs for the Institute nationwide, addressing such business issues as sustainability legislation, licensing standards, building code advocacy, and was responsible for authoring and lobbying for the passage of the carbon neutrality model laws currently adopted in Minnesota, Puerto Rico, and Washington, as well as the carbon neutrality policy then adopted by the National Governor's Association.
Before joining AIA, he was head of all government and regulatory affairs for a large international foam insulation manufacturer, Icynene Inc. (authoring the section in the International Residential Code regulating unvented attics), and prior to that was the first energy and green building advocate for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), lobbying at all levels of Government. While employed at NAHB, he was also responsible for the creation of nation’s first Model Green Home Building Guidelines, now the ICC 700 Standard for green home residential construction.
He has taught as adjunct faculty at Penn State University’s Pennsylvania Housing Research Center in the School of Engineering and was a guest lecturer in the University Of Maryland School Of Architecture program. An accomplished public speaker, he has keynoted and presented at numerous conferences throughout the United States.
In the past, his consulting company, Loyer Consulting LLC, was feathured in the Washington Post in a Capital Business article focused on consulting for small business. As Owner and CEO, he counted as his clients the Steel Framing Industry Association, International Downtown Association, the Vinyl Siding Institute, the International Code Council, the National Association of Home Builders, the New Buildings Institute, The Modular Building Institute, Consol, Building Quality, Icynene Insulation, and Intercode Inc, among others. A part of one of the many contracts he executed successfully for clients, he was principal editor and secretariat for the internationally-based committee that created the only regulatory guideline for the enforcement of building commissioning, and it is published internationally.
In 2000, he earned a Masters degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and his Bachelors degree in 1998 from Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA (his hometown). Most recently, in 2008, he received an advanced, graduate-level diploma in Legislative Affairs from the Government Affairs Institute of Georgetown University with a focus on interest group politics and advocacy. He lives in Arlington, VA where he served as a Housing Commissioner on the Arlington County Housing Commission in 2011 and 2012.
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