Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 13, 2000
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
Mr. Brown: Micromuse is a network management software company. More
specifically, what we call fault and performance
