HOWLAND — Ex-U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, who’s lived his entire life in the Mahoning Valley, has moved to central Ohio to be better located for his new job.

Ryan sold his two-story Howland house at 560 Amber Drive SE on Friday for $540,000, according to the Trumbull County auditor’s website. He and his wife, Andrea, purchased the home in May 2013 for $310,000.

The couple and their family moved to a new home in Dublin, a Columbus suburb. Details of the purchase were not available Monday.

“It’s very bittersweet to leave the Valley,” Ryan said. “I spent my whole life there and Andrea did too.”

When Ryan was hired in May as chief global business development officer for Zoetic Global, he said he would be moving to the Columbus area where the international company opened a new carbon credit headquarters.

“The move was driven by the Zoetic deal as they’re working to have a presence here,” Ryan said. “There are not many places you can’t get to from Columbus. With the Intel project and numerous other investments in this area, it’s probably one of the hottest areas in the country, if not the world.”

The planned $20 billion Intel semiconductor plants in New Albany, also near Columbus, is the largest economic development project in the state’s history.

Ryan, who turned 50 on Sunday, said he still will return often to the Mahoning Valley as Zoetic signed a lease for a nearly 30,000-square-foot warehouse at 360 E. Federal St. in downtown Youngstown to turn it into a manufacturing and distribution hub.

“I’ll be spending a lot of time there still and be home often,” he said. “It’s just a two-and-a-half hour drive. My mom and brother are still there as is Andrea’s family.”

Zoetic provides energy, water and food technologies to areas of need around the world.

Ryan was hired in May as its chief global business development officer.

Ryan, who represented the Mahoning Valley in the U.S. House for 20 years, lost the 2022 U.S. Senate race to Republican J.D. Vance.

Since then, he’s taken four part-time jobs in both the energy and bitcoin fields with the Zoetic job being full-time.

“I’m having a ball” at Zoetic, Ryan said. “We’re taking the company to the next level. There’s a ton of interest in the company and the products. It’s been a nice transition out of politics. All of the economic development stuff we did in Congress is very helpful in this job.”

As for a return to politics, Ryan said: “Maybe someday, but I’m not going back to politics any time soon.”

Zoetic formed about six years ago. It is growing its refrigerant technologies and is in the process of acquiring other technologies in the hydrokinetic, wind, solar and hydrogen industries.

It has offices in Washington, D.C.; Qatar; Singapore; and Nigeria.