Robert Brown brings over 40 years of expertise in systems software, with a deep background in computer vision, SaaS, storage management, network management, internet collaboration, and telecommunications. As a co-founder of ProHawk Technology Group, Inc., he has been pivotal in advancing computer vision restoration and AI optimization. He also co-founded Software CPA, a cloud software services company, and BlackBall, Inc., a leader in unstructured data management software and services. Under his leadership, these companies have achieved numerous accolades, including Red Herring's Top 100 Privately Held Technology Companies in North America (2005 & 2009) and Finalist for the Top 100 Most Innovative Technology Companies Worldwide in 2005. They also earned the Networld+InterOp Best of Show in 2004 and Finalist in 2005, as well as AeA Software Product of the Year in 2008. Most recently, ProHawk AI won the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit's Vision Tank Competition for edge AI computing.As President and COO of Contigo Software, he successfully grew revenues from $800k/yr to $4.4M/yr in the first year, leading to a merger with Evoke Communication and an IPO of the combined companies. As Vice President of Corporate Development for Seagate Software and Seagate Technology, he represented Seagate Technologies in the $3.3 billion acquisition of Seagate Software by Veritas Software. Running six business units as Vice President of Products at Arcada Software, a Conner Peripherals subsidiary, he was the driving force behind the industry-standard Backup Exec product line, growing revenues from $1M/yr to $220M/yr in three years.His distinguished career in storage management began in 1987 as Vice President of Engineering at Emerald Systems, where his product releases grew revenues by 900% in just two years. He developed the first MS-Windows backup product, the first shared tape drive on a file server, and a tape format patent that is now widely used in the industry, creating the media directory "on-the-fly" during backup to ensure accurate and representative information on the media.
Listed skills include Enterprise Software, Start Ups, Saas, Strategy, and 46 others.