Greg Brown (businessman)

Gregory Q. Brown[1] (born 1960) is an American businessman.[2][3] He has been chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions since 2008.[2][3][4]

Gregory Q. Brown
Born1960 (age 62–63)
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Alma materRutgers’ Livingston College
Highland Park High School
TitleChairman and Chief Executive Officer (Motorola Solutions) since 2008

Education

Brown graduated from Rutgers’ Livingston College (now part of Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences), where he received a Bachelor of Science in Economics in 1982.[5][3][4] He graduated from Highland Park High School in New Jersey.

Career

Early Career

After graduating from Rutgers with a degree in economics, Brown took a position with AT&T in 1982.[6][7] He led a team that won a contract to sell over 10,000 computers to General Motors and Electronic Data Systems. He eventually left AT&T for Ameritech.[6]

In 1996, Brown was appointed as president of Ameritech Custom Business Services (Ameritech Corporation), a position he held until 1999.[8] He was also named president of Ameritech New Media Inc. from September 1996 to February 1999. In these roles he was responsible for all consumer cable TV operations, programming, and content relationships.[8] The Ameritech CEO, Dick Notebaert, chose Brown to build a cable business inside Ameritech. That business was sold to Wide Open West LLC in 2001 for $1 billion (estimated).[7]

Brown left Ameritech for the company Micromuse.[7] He was the Chairman and CEO for the San Francisco-based network management software company(acquired by IBM) for four years until his resignation in December 2002[9][10]

Under his leadership, the company’s annual revenue grew from $28 million to over $200 million. Brown left Micromuse to join Motorola.[6]

Motorola and Motorola Solutions

Brown is chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions, which builds and connects safety and security technologies that help protect people, property and places, including communications, video security and the command center.[11][12] He is the company’s longest-serving CEO, after the founder Paul Galvin and his son Bob.[4] An analyst at Northcoast Research noted Brown "...has been a success on many levels. (Motorola Solutions) stock has blossomed, and the company has been transformed completely" during his tenure as CEO. [11]

Brown joined Motorola in January 2003 as head of the communications, government, and industrial solutions sector.[9][10] In this role, he led the acquisition of Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion.[11][7] In 2007 he was promoted to chief operating officer and, in 2008, was named CEO. In 2011 he was named Chairman of the Board.[7][12]

Civic Involvement

Brown is a member of the business and civic communities. He serves on many boards and committees on the local and national level.

  • Co-chair of Prium.[13]
  • Council on Foreign Relations[14]
  • Board of Directors, Prostate Cancer Foundation

He also served as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Chairman of the Rutgers University Board of Governors.[4]Brown was also the Navy SEAL Foundation Midwest Event Chairman for 2021.[15]

Brown has served two American presidents as part of President Obama’s Management Advisory Board and President George W. Bush’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.[4]

He earned an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rutgers University.[4]

Personal life

Brown and his wife, Anna, have two children, Megan and Troy.[6]

References
  1. "Gregory Q. Brown". Motorolasolutions.com. Archived from the original on 2017-02-07.
  2. "Gregory Brown". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  3. Bloomberg BusinessWeek
  4. "Greg Brown, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Motorola Solutions". newsroom.motorolasolutions.com. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  5. "Greg Brown, Chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions, will be Keynote Speaker at Rutgers' 246th Commencement May 13". rutgers.edu. April 3, 2012. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  6. "Executive profile: Greg Brown, CEO of Motorola Solutions". Chicago Tribune. February 13, 2012. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  7. "Greg Brown's Motorola". Crain's Chicago Business.
  8. "Motorola names Greg Brown new CEO - Nov. 30, 2007". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  9. "Micromuse CEO to Join Motorola". WSJ. December 13, 2002. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  10. "Micromuse loses CEO/Chairman Brown to Motorola". MarketWatch. Dec 13, 2002. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  11. "How Motorola built a turnaround on public-safety tech | Fortune". 2023-06-08. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
  12. Serwer, Andy. "Greg Brown Has Remade Motorola Solutions Into a Growth Machine". www.barrons.com. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  13. "About | The Prium". Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  14. slater, elias (2015-12-29). "Greg Brown". Prostate Cancer Foundation. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  15. "Navy SEAL Foundation Midwest Evening of Tribute". Facebook. June 18, 2021. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
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