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Untitled Document James Brown has been providing leadership in transformative strategic initiatives by managing teams with companies in all phases of their business lifecycle for more than 20 years. After a 10 year career in streamlining and managing production in the printing and publishing industry as a senior production manager and publisher, Mr. Brown in 1995 co-founded and was Vice President of Strategic Planning and Professional Services for Clear Ink where he was responsible for managing strategic initiatives for clients like E*Trade, Ascend Communications, Pacific Bell (SBC), Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems among an extensive and diverse client list. Clear Ink was one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the Bay Area for three consecutive years and Mr. Brown helped manage the company and its Blue Chip client roster through 5 years of significant growth.

While in the Bay Area, Mr. Brown co-founded and served as president for the public/private non-profit partnership NapaNet which funded and established one of the first successful community networks serving every school and school child in Napa County.

In 2000, Mr. Brown returned to Santa Barbara and provided startup project and operational management for the international investment firm Bertelsmann Ventures until taking a position with Tenet Healthcare in 2001. While with Tenet, Mr. Brown served on the human resources executive committee responsible for implementing strategic IT/IS and clinical education initiatives for the organization. He developed a successful enterprise learning and training program and served as the General Manager and CIO of the DigitalMed division serving 135,000 employees. He worked with operators in Tenet’s 120 acute care facilities nationwide to develop enterprise performance improvement initiatives and to implement the support infrastructure for various quality improvement programs.

Recently, Mr. Brown performed strategic planning, business analysis and project management for companies like John Muir/Mt. Diablo Health Systems, Bargain Network, National Third Age Foundation, Sisney, Inc., Atuli, Inc., and Generation 21 Learning Systems as a consultant. During this time, he was also a part-time educator for Santa Barbara City College and Carpinteria High School where he taught design, digital media and project management. Mr. Brown has served on the board of directors and advisory boards for several prominent non-profit organizations in both Santa Barbara and Napa.

Currently, Mr. Brown teaches Digital Media Design & Criticism at New Technology High School and is a facilitator and counselor for domestic violence groups. He is also adjunct faculty at Napa Valley College and Napa Valley Adult Eduacation.

Mr. Brown has his undergraduate degree from University of California at Santa Barbara and his Masters from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is currently completing his Ph.D. and is ABD at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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