Hill Heat

Full committee nomination hearing.

Witnesses:

• Andrew Hughes, to be Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• David Woll, to be General Counsel, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Michelle Bowman, to be Vice Chairman for Supervision, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• John Hurley, to be Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, Department of the Treasury
• David Fogel, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for global markets and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, Department of Commerce
• Landon Heid, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for export administration, Department of Commerce

Andrew Hughes is the former Chief of Staff for Ben Carson at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and Executive Director of the American Cornerstone Institute. Hughes worked on Ben Carson’s presidential effort, and then served in a similar capacity for three months with Trump’s first presidential campaign.

John Hurley is currently the Managing Partner of Cavalry Asset Management and Managing Member of TGK Ventures. Hurley has also been a long-time Lecturer in Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), where he teaches the GSB Investment Course. From 2018-2021, Mr. Hurley served on President Trump’s Intelligence Advisory Board. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the Middle East Institute, the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution, the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, and the Board of Directors of America’s Frontier Fund. Hurley graduated with honors from Princeton, where he was Chairman of the Daily Princetonian, and now chairs the History Department Advisory Board. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. During the First Gulf War, he served as a battalion fire direction officer for the First Cavalry Division, and was awarded the Bronze Star. After receiving his MBA from Stanford GSB, he was an analyst and portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments and Managing Partner of Bowman Capital Management before founding Cavalry in 2003.

David Fogel is currently CEO of North Country Collocation Services (NCCS), a crypto mining data center subsidiary of Coinmint in Massena, N.Y., and an Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship at Georgetown Law Center. Previously, Fogel was a two-time successful entrepreneur in the FinTech sector and a corporate attorney. From 2019-2021, Fogel served as Chief of Staff at The U.S. Export-Import Bank and then as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth in the U.S. State Department, where he was also nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs.