Key staffing changes are afoot at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC"), as two individuals have recently joined the Agency's leadership ranks.
Brien Lorenze joined the CPSC as the new Executive Director on March 6, 2025, succeeding Austin Schlick. Executive Director Brien Lorenze most recently served as Senior Advisor in the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN"). Prior to this role at FinCEN, he served as Chief Data Officer for the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, an independent oversight committee created by Congress in 2020 focused on pandemic relief spending. Mr. Lorenze has also held executive positions at Deloitte, BearingPoint, and IBM Global Services. In announcing Mr. Lorenze as Executive Director, Acting Chairman Feldman said, "[t]he future for agencies like CPSC will require us to leverage technology to make our work more effective and more efficient. We are lucky to have Brien join CPSC to help lead our efforts at such an important moment."
On March 12, 2025, Acting Chairman Feldman announced the appointment of Matthew Campbell as the CPSC's General Counsel, a position held most recently by Asha Allam as Acting General Counsel. Based on Mr. Campbell's LinkedIn, he was with an AmLaw 100 firm for a little over 23 years focusing his practice on product liability and mass tort litigation before moving to the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as an attorney in April 2023.
These leadership appointments follow other CPSC changes in staff and political positions in the new Trump Administration, namely Commissioner Peter Feldman becoming Acting Chairman of the CPSC on January 21, 2025 after Alexander Hoehn-Saric resigned as Chair and stepped into a Commissioner role. The make-up of CPSC staff leadership currently stands as follows.
| Office of Communications | Director Pamela Rucker Springs |
| Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Employee Engagement | Director Brittany Woolfolk |
| Office of Executive Director | Executive Director Brien Lorenze Deputy Executive Director for Safety Operations DeWane Ray Deputy Executive Director for Operations Support Annette Evans |
| Office of General Counsel | General Counsel Matthew Campbell |
| Office of Inspector General | Inspector General Christopher Dentel |
| Office of Legislative Affairs | Director John Mitchell |
| Office of the Secretary | Secretary Alberta Mills |
We look forward to following agency initiatives under new CPSC leadership as well tracking other appointment changes at the agency in the future.
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