Roger H. Brown
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Roger H. Brown is president of Berklee College of Music
, cofounder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, an international relief agency manager and a dedicated philanthropist.
After graduating, Brown took a job with Boston management consulting firm, Bain and Company, but left in January 1985 to co-direct famine relief efforts in Sudan for Save the Children. The innovative program developed by Brown and Mason established many local food distribution centers, rather than a few centralized ones.
Returning to Boston, Brown and Mason co-founded Bright Horizons Family Solutions, which provided on-site child care for client-company employees, in 1986. Under their leadership, the company grew into a publicly traded $400 million company. Brown served as chief executive officer until January 2002. He is also the founder of the Horizions Initiative, which provide services for homeless children, and the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children, which creates play spaces in homeless shelters.
Brown assumed the presidency of Berklee College of Music
in 2004. He is the third president of the college and the first one who is not a member of the Berk family. A music enthusiast and avocational drummer, Brown had produced award-winning CDs of children’s music featuring Ziggy Marley and Arlo Guthrie, among others, as a fund-raiser for the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children. Under his leadership, Berklee has not only grown and diversified its on campus enrollment but also grown its online educational offerings through Berklee Media. Since he became president, the college also has initiated an Africana Studies program, the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, and an American Roots Music Program.
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...
, cofounder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, an international relief agency manager and a dedicated philanthropist.
Career
Brown graduated from Davidson College with a degree in physics and public policy in 1978. He then spent a year and a half teaching science and math in Kenya before returning to the U.S. to attend Yale School of Management. After his first year at Yale, he and his wife, Linda Mason, co-directed Land Bridge, a famine-relief program on the Cambodia-Thailand border. Working under the auspices of CARE and UNICEF, the program served as many as 25,000 people a day and was the largest emergency food distribution effort ever attempted. He then returned to Yale, earning a masters in public and private management in 1982. He and Mason wrote a book about their experiences in Cambodia, Rice, Rivalry, and Politics.After graduating, Brown took a job with Boston management consulting firm, Bain and Company, but left in January 1985 to co-direct famine relief efforts in Sudan for Save the Children. The innovative program developed by Brown and Mason established many local food distribution centers, rather than a few centralized ones.
Returning to Boston, Brown and Mason co-founded Bright Horizons Family Solutions, which provided on-site child care for client-company employees, in 1986. Under their leadership, the company grew into a publicly traded $400 million company. Brown served as chief executive officer until January 2002. He is also the founder of the Horizions Initiative, which provide services for homeless children, and the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children, which creates play spaces in homeless shelters.
Brown assumed the presidency of Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...
in 2004. He is the third president of the college and the first one who is not a member of the Berk family. A music enthusiast and avocational drummer, Brown had produced award-winning CDs of children’s music featuring Ziggy Marley and Arlo Guthrie, among others, as a fund-raiser for the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children. Under his leadership, Berklee has not only grown and diversified its on campus enrollment but also grown its online educational offerings through Berklee Media. Since he became president, the college also has initiated an Africana Studies program, the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, and an American Roots Music Program.