Bio

Mr. Brown has over eighteen years of experience financing private and publicly traded companies. He spent seven years at Fusion Capital where he was responsible for deal origination and negotiation. Prior to this, he was the President of CGI Capital, a venture capital firm and NASD broker-dealer in Illinois. Mr. Brown began his career in finance at Merrill Lynch. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Financial Markets Institute at Michigan State University. Mr. Brown has also served on the Leadership Council of the Chicago Public Education Fund, a venture capital fund focused on improving public education, and on the board of the Kellogg Alumni Club of Chicago. He earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and his B.A. in finance from Michigan State University.