John Clay

John Clay serves as CTO of EEE and is an original co-founder of Endpoint Industrial Controls, founded in 2019 and merged with EEE in January 2026. John brings years of technical and operational leadership to the role, with deep expertise in automation, controls, electrical, and process engineering. His career began at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, focused on geophysical sensor platforms and military engineering, followed by a role as an Electrical Engineer at Tesseract Sensors supporting DOD sensor platforms. John then stood up and established engineering operations for XRI's water midstream operations in the Permian Basin.

Following XRI, John served at The Dow Chemical Company as a Process Control System Engineer and R&D Process Control Texas Operations Focal Point, where he was responsible for over 70 of Dow's Gulf Coast R&D process control programs. Prior to founding Endpoint, he was Automation and Controls Manager at Noble Midstream Partners in Houston — rounding out a career spanning the Department of Defense, DOD contracting, and industrial automation and process control before launching his own company. John serves on the Customer Advisory Board for Rockwell Automation and the University of Wyoming College of Engineering Industry Advisory Board, and holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming.