Ziad “Z” Ojakli, former head of the Boeing Co.’s and Ford Motor Co.’s lobbying operations, said Tuesday he was taking a job at
Ojakli also previously ran congressional relations for the George W. Bush administration and the in-house lobbying operation for SoftBank. He said in an email that it was in the role at SoftBank that he first had a “front-row seat,” back in 2017, to the TikTok app that went on to become “a global sensation.”
He left Boeing last December as then-new CEO Kelly Ortberg remade the lobbying team ...