Over 30 years of experience; he has an extensive background in storage management, network management, Internet collaboration, and telecommunications. Co-founded Software CPA, a cloud software services company. Co-founded BlackBall, Inc., the company the leader in Unstructured Data Management software and service. Lead company to winning numerous product and company awards, including Red Herring Top 100 Privately Held Technology Companies in North America (2005 & 2009) & Finalist Top 100 Most Innovative Technology Companies Worldwide 2005, Networld+Inter-Op Best of Show 2004 & Finalist 2005. AeA Software product of the Year 2008.

As President and COO of Contigo Software, he successfully grew revenues from $800k/yr. to $4.4M/yr. in the first year. Contigo was merged with Evoke Communication to enable an initial Public Offering (IPO) of the combined companies. As Vice President of Corporate Development for Seagate Software and Seagate Technology, Mr. Brown represented Seagate Technologies interests in the $3.3 billion acquisition of Seagate Software by Veritas Software. Running 6 business units as Vice President of Products at Arcada Software, a Conner Peripherals subsidiary, Mr. Brown was the driving force and visionary behind the industry standard Backup Exec product line where revenues grew from $1M/yr. to $220M/yr. in 3 years.

His distinguished career in storage management began in 1987 as Vice President of Engineering at Emerald Systems, where his product releases grew revenues by 900% in just two years and developed the first MS-Windows backup product, the first shared tape drive on a file server, and a tape format patent that is now widely used in the industry as a tandard that creates the media directory "on-the-fly" as the backup happens ensuring that the information in the directory is accurate and representative to the information on media.

Specialties: M&A, Software Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Corporate Strategy and Planning.