Announcing New Appointments at TTBWe are pleased to announce several personnel changes effective this month that will allow TTB to remain flexible to meet our mission needs, fulfill new mandates, and facilitate continued improvements to bureau operations.  | | We established a new executive directorate, the Office of Policy and Planning (OPP) which will be led by Elisabeth (‘Lis’) Kann, as the Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy and Planning, where she will lead cross-bureau teams in addressing priority policy issues and mandates affecting the bureau. In her new capacity, Lis will continue to serve as the bureau’s Chief Risk Officer while also managing TTB’s strategic planning and analytics programs. Most recently, Lis served as the TTB’s Assistant Administrator for External Affairs/Chief of Staff and has been at TTB for over 11 years. In view of her successful stewardship of high-profile, cross-directorate initiatives to date, Lis’ placement in this new position situates the bureau well to handle the new and mission-critical challenges that lie ahead. |
 | | Amy Graydon will serve as TTB’s new Assistant Administrator for External Affairs/Chief of Staff. Amy joins TTB from the Department of Transportation, where she was the senior executive Director of the Office of Policy, Strategic Planning, and Regulations at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. In this capacity, she led the organization’s efforts to build a long-term strategic plan and coordinated extensively across the Department’s multiple operating components to drive transformational initiatives with broad-based public impact. In her new role, Amy will focus on improving TTB’s stakeholder engagement, communications, and public affairs functions while also facilitating management of the bureau’s internal processes and workflows. |
 | | We are also pleased to announce that Christina McMahon has been selected as TTB’s Chief Counsel. Christina comes to us from Treasury’s Office of General Counsel (Enforcement & Intelligence) where she supported the Department’s intelligence community as the Legal Counsel for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA) and was serving as Acting Chief Counsel at TTB. Christina has prior experience working at TTB, serving as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Regulations and Rulings Division and then in the Office of the Chief Counsel as an attorney-advisor in the Tax and Trade Division. Christina received both her law degree and B.A. from Tulane University in New Orleans. |
 | | And finally, we’d like to welcome Cameron (‘Cam’) Brown, who recently joined TTB as the Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Headquarters Operations as a detailee. Cam joins us from the Department of Homeland Security, where he most recently served as the Acting Principal Deputy Chief Counsel for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), leading CISA's Office of the Chief Counsel (OCC). His OCC portfolio has included responsibility for general law, rulemaking, regulatory enforcement, cybersecurity, infrastructure security, and operational legal work. |
Lis’ extensive and successful bureau experience leading complex initiatives coupled with Christina, Amy and Cam’s broad range of expertise will help us adapt to better proactively identify, prepare for, and respond to challenges as they arise. |
