A Look Ahead: What to Expect from a Fully Staffed FTC under President Biden

Jessica Lee chairs Loeb & Loeb’s Privacy, Security & Data Innovations practice. Jessica helps companies in the U.S. and around the world launch, market and monetize their digital products and content. She provides strategic privacy counselling to clients who are leveraging data in connection with programmatic and addressable advertising, voice technology, location-based tracking, smart devices and wearables, as well as emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and facial recognition. Jessica has assisted dozens of organizations design their privacy programs and operationalize U.S. and international privacy and data security requirements, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and, more recently, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and upcoming state privacy laws. Jessica is the Chair of the Cyber Security & Surveillance Committee of the International Bar Association and sits on the IAPP’s Publications Advisory Board. Jessica is a supporter of the arts and serves as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Weeksville Heritage Center and sits on the Board of Directors for the Laundromat Project and Musicians on Call.

Robyn Mohr counsels clients on a wide variety of matters related to new media, technology, mobile and digital marketing, advertising, and privacy. She also advises on compliance with various state and federal laws and regulations, representing clients in a variety of industries, including consumer products, telecommunications, internet and entertainment.

Virginia Poe is a native of Orlando, Florida. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida in Geography and her master’s degree from the American University of Paris in Global Communications. Directly after receiving her undergraduate degree she served as a Legislative Aide for Florida State Senator Eleanor Sobel before joining the Alan Grayson for Congress campaign as his Finance Director in 2012. She then went on to serve as Senator Mary Landrieu’s Deputy Finance Director in 2014 and the Finance Director on her father, Bob Poe’s, congressional campaign in 2016. Prior to joining IAB she served for 5 years as a Legislative Assistant in Congressman Charlie Crist’s D.C. office where she managed a portfolio that included technology, telecommunications, privacy, intellectual property, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations, Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations, and Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations. She currently resides on Capitol Hill with her pet fish, Megan Thee Stallion.

Lartease Tiffith is the Executive Vice President for Public Policy at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He leads IAB’s public policy team, which is responsible for advocating on behalf of IAB’s more than 700 member companies on complex issues, including consumer privacy, data security, global trade, international data transfer rules, and more. Lartease also leads IAB’s Public Policy Council, the marketing and media industry’s largest legislative and regulatory advisory group, with senior executives from more than 200 companies contributing to solutions to advance consumer benefits and economic growth. He also plays an important role in supporting IAB Tech Labs efforts to align the industry’s technical development and best practices. 

Lartease joined IAB from Amazon, where he led the company’s public policy work around advertising, privacy, security, data governance, cross-border data flows, and consumer protection issues. In his role, he provided counsel to internal legal and business partners on global public policy matters to help guide the development of products, services, and internal policies. During his tenure at Amazon, INSIDER named him as one of the key players in politics and the tech world. 

Prior to joining Amazon, Lartease served as Senior Counsel to then-U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, and Counsel to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. Before working in the Senate, he practiced law at two international law firms (Kirkland & Ellis LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP) and the U.S. Department of Justice. Lartease began his legal career as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Roger L. Gregory, Circuit Judge, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. 

Lartease earned his B.A., J.D., and M.B.A. from Northwestern University.