Lobbying World: Motion Picture Association adds FBI alum as content protection chief

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has hired Larissa Knapp as executive vice president and chief content protection officer. Knapp joins the MPA after 27 years at the Federal Bureau of Investigations, where she recently led the national security branch as the bureau's fourth-highest-ranking official.

Jenness Simler will lead the national security government relations practice at Invariant. Simler joins from Boeing, where she was vice president of contested logistics solutions, and...