Brien Lorenze Joins CPSC as Agency’s Executive Director

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today announced that Brien Lorenze has joined the agency as its new Executive Director. In this role, Lorenze serves as the chief operating officer of the agency and is responsible for its programmatic, operational, and administrative functions. He also manages the agency’s regulatory portfolio and supervises CPSC’s efforts to identify and reduce hazards to consumers. 

Lorenze has more than two decades of experience leading start-ups and established organizations focusing on strategy, collaboration and addressing complex technical challenges. He most recently served as a senior advisor in the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.  Prior to that, he was Chief Data Officer for the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, which was created by Congress in 2020 to provide oversight of pandemic relief spending. 

Prior to entering public service, Lorenze served as a principal at Deloitte, where he held several roles, including leading the Global Public Sector advisory business and founding a cloud-based solution that used advanced data analytics to detect waste, fraud, and abuse.  He also held leadership positions at BearingPoint and IBM Global Services. 

“Brien is an extremely accomplished executive with experience in the public and private sectors. He understands how large organizations work and how to make them work better,” said CPSC’s Acting Chairman Peter Feldman. “The 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.” 

Lorenze received a Master of Public Administration from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder.