Technology >> CEO Interviews >> October 25, 2000

Greg Brown – Micromuse Inc (muse)

GREG BROWN was named Chairman and CEO of Micromuse Inc. in February 1999. His 19 years of high-tech experience includes leadership positions in the telecommunications, data networking, cable TV, and computer software industries. Before joining Micromuse, Mr. Brown served as President of Ameritech Custom Business Services, a unit of Ameritech Corporation that provides large business customers with custom communications and information technology. Additionally, Mr. Brown sat on the Executive Council of the managed services alliance formed by IBM and Ameritech. For the three years prior to his position at Custom Business Services, Mr. Brown was President of Ameritech New Media Inc., and was responsible for all of Ameritech's consumer cable TV operations, which included marketing, sales, programming relationships, network deployment and construction, and federal and state regulatory affairs. He also was a member of the Board of Directors of Americast, the video programming joint venture involving Ameritech, The Walt Disney Company, GTE, Bell South, and Southern New England Telephone. Earlier, Mr. Brown served in a variety of general management positions, including four years as President of two Ameritech information system divisions, which were responsible for providing equipment, operations support, and system integration services for business customers. Before joining Ameritech in 1987, Brown held a variety of sales and marketing positions with AT&T in Michigan for six years. He also worked for the IBM Company in various sales and sales support capacities from 1980 to 1981. Profile
TWST: Could you provide our readers with an overview of Micromuse?

Mr. Brown: Micromuse is a network management software company. More

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