Greg Brown (businessman)

Greg Brown (businessman)
Gregory Q. Brown (born 1960) is an American businessman. He has been chairman and chief executive officer of 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. 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. 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.
In 1996, Brown was appointed as president of Ameritech Custom Business Services (Ameritech Corporation), a position he held until 1999. 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. 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).
Brown left Ameritech for the company Micromuse. 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
Under his leadership, the company’s annual revenue grew from $28 million to over $200 million. Brown left Micromuse to join Motorola.
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. He is the company’s longest-serving CEO, after the founder Paul Galvin and his son Bob. 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.
Brown joined Motorola in January 2003 as head of the communications, government, and industrial solutions sector. In this role, he led the acquisition of Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion. In 2007 he was promoted to chief operating officer and, in 2008, was named CEO. In 2011 he was named Chairman of the Board.
In March 2008, with the company losing money, Brown announced that Motorola would split in two. Motorola became Motorola Mobility (the cellphone side of the company), and Motorola Solutions. Brown continued to run the new Motorola Solutions, which began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011.
The company has had more than 40 acquisitions since Brown became CEO and shares in the company rose more than 150% The private equity firm Silver Lake has made two $1 billion investments in the company as of 2023. In 2022, sales were just over $9 billion and earnings were at $1.3 billion.
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.
Council on Foreign Relations
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.Brown was also the Navy SEAL Foundation Midwest Event Chairman for 2021.
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.
He earned an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rutgers University.
Personal life
Brown and his wife, Anna, have two children, Megan and Troy.
References
American chief executives
1960 births
Living people
Rutgers University alumni
Businesspeople from Chicago
American chief operating officers
American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies