
Bruce Andrews has more than 30 years of public policy and government affairs experience. He served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2014 to 2017 and chief of staff to the secretary from 2011 to 2014. Prior to the Department of Commerce, Andrews served as general counsel of the Senate Commerce Committee for Chairman Jay Rockefeller. From September 2021 to January 2025, he served as senior vice president and chief government affairs officer at Intel Corporation, where he led Intel’s global government affairs group and oversaw the company’s government affairs, trade, community affairs, digital education and public policy functions and strategies. Prior to Intel, Andrews served as senior vice president and managing partner, coleading global government affairs, at SoftBank Group. Prior to SoftBank, Andrews served as managing director at Rock Creek Global Advisors, an international economic and trade policy advisory firm. Earlier in his career, he was vice president of Governmental Affairs for Ford Motor Company, where he oversaw U.S. federal and state government affairs. Before that, he was one of the founding members of Quinn Gillespie & Associates. Additionally, Andrews was an attorney at Arnold & Porter, legislative director to Congressman Tim Holden and started his career with Senator Alan Cranston. Andrews is a graduate of Haverford College and the Georgetown University Law Center.