Brien Lorenze is a Commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) where he oversees efforts to safeguard the public from consumer product hazards. He was nominated by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed by the United States Senate to complete a seven-year term expiring on September 7, 2033. He began serving as a Commissioner on September 8, 2026.
Prior to his confirmation, Commissioner Lorenze served as Executive Director of the CPSC. In that role, he functioned as the chief operating officer of the agency and was responsible for its programmatic, operational, and administrative functions.
Commissioner Lorenze has three decades of experience leading start-ups and established organizations focusing on strategy, collaboration and addressing complex technical challenges. He served as a senior advisor in the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network where he championed the adoption of artificial intelligence and the migration to a secure, cloud-based platform. Prior to that, he was Chief Data Officer for the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, where he built the analytics platform used to combat fraud associated with $5 trillion in pandemic spending.
Prior to entering public service, Commissioner Lorenze served as a principal at Deloitte, where he held several roles, including leading the Global Public Sector Audit and Enterprise Risk Services 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 received a Master of Public Administration from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder.