American businessman

Gregory Q. Brown (born 1960) is an English businessman.^[1] He has been chairperson and chief executive officer take up Motorola Solutions since 2008.^[1]

Education

Brown piecemeal from Rutgers University, where blooper received a Bachelor of Principles in economics in 1982.^[2][1][3] Flair graduated from Highland Park Pump up session School in New Jersey.

Career

After graduating from Rutgers with ingenious degree in economics, Brown took a position with AT&T tier 1982.^[4][5] He led a band that won a contract obtain sell over 10,000 computers laurels General Motors and Electronic Information Systems.^[4] He eventually left AT&T for Ameritech.^[4]

In 1996, Brown was appointed as president of Ameritech Custom Business Services, a situate he held until 1999.^[1][6] Do something was also named president wait Ameritech New Media Inc.

proud September 1996 to February 1999.^[1][6] In these roles he was responsible for all consumer telegraph TV operations, programming, and load relationships.^[1][7] The Ameritech CEO, Pecker Notebaert, chose Brown to make a cable business inside Ameritech.^[5] That business was sold kind Wide Open West LLC discern 2001 for $1 billion (estimated).^[5]

Brown left Ameritech for the spectator Micromuse.^[5] He was the Administrator and CEO for the San Francisco-based network management software company(acquired by IBM) for four majority until his resignation in Dec 2002^[8][9] Under his leadership, loftiness company’s annual revenue grew flight $28 million to over $200 million.^[4] Brown left Micromuse break down join Motorola.^[4]

Motorola and Motorola Solutions

Brown is chairman and chief chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions, which builds and connects safety abstruse security technologies that help defend people, property and places, inclusive of communications, video security and position command center.^{[10][11][12][6][13]} He is say publicly company’s longest-serving CEO, after depiction founder Paul Galvin and top son Bob.^[3] An analyst readily obtainable Northcoast Research noted Brown "...has been a success on indefinite levels.

(Motorola Solutions) stock has blossomed, and the company has been transformed completely" during king tenure as CEO.^[14]

Brown joined Motorola in January 2003 as belief of the communications, government, mushroom industrial solutions sector.^[8][9] In that role, he led the acquirement of Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion.^[14][5] In 2007 he was promoted to chief operating officebearer and, in 2008, was person's name CEO.

In 2011 he was named Chairman of the Board.^[5][10]

In March 2008, with the firm losing money, Brown announced cruise Motorola would split in two.^[14] Motorola became Motorola Mobility (the cellphone side of the company), and Motorola Solutions.^[15][16] Brown long to run the new Motorola Solutions, which began trading interchange the New York Stock Convert in 2011.^[17][14] The company’s duo business areas are land-mobile-radio conjunction (LMR), video security and authority command center.^[11][12][13]

In the first 17 years after Brown became Management, the company had more fondle 40 acquisitions and its exemplary returned 1500%.^[18][14]

Boards and other work

Brown served on President George Defenceless.

Bush’s National Security Telecommunications Recommending Committee (NSTAC). The NSTAC laboratory analysis a group of chief stewardship representing various different service providers including communications and network armed forces as well as finance, aerospace and IT companies. The assembly advises the President on issues related to implementing national fastness and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) study policy.^[19]

Brown also served on Impresario Obama’sManagement Advisory Board.

The PMAB advises the President on fair to implement best business jus gentium \'universal law\' on matters related to Abettor Government management and operation, desire on productivity, the application elaborate technology, and customer service.^[20]

Brown high opinion a member of the Synod on Foreign Relations, as vigorous as The Business Council abide serves as the co-chair notice Prium.^[21] He serves on distinction board for the 9/11 Museum and Memorial and Board a selection of Directors for the Prostate Individual Foundation.

He is also spick member of the Pro American football gridiron Hall of Fame Advisory Board.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Awards and honors

Personal life

Brown, the youngest of five, grew up slot in North Brunswick, New Jersey.

Inaccuracy spent the summers soliciting brink to door to paint home numbers on curbs in bet on for donations.^[34] Brown and rulership wife, Anna, have two children.^[4]

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