A fourth-generation builder, B. Wayne Brown founded and led Brown Builders, Inc. for over forty years. Wayne also partnered with his father and brother to develop over 2500 single-family home lots in several complete neighborhoods that redefined the landscape of South Bossier City. For the past ten years, while continuing to guide Brown Builders as the Chairman of its Board of Directors, Wayne has focused his efforts on the development of luxury multifamily apartment complexes in Louisiana as well as three other states.Wayne is a past president of the Shreveport Chapter of the Associated General Contractors, a member of the Louisiana Engineering Society, the American Society of Civil Engineers (life member), National Society of Professional Engineers, National Associated General Contractors, and previously served on the Advisory Council for Butler Manufacturing, the international steel building division of Australian BlueScope.Wayne has served on the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Board, Bossier Chamber of Commerce Board, Greater Bossier Economic Development Foundation Board (past chairman), and the North Louisiana Economic Partnership Board. He is a member of the Shreveport/Bossier Committee of 100 and on the Executive Committee of the Committee of 100 Louisiana for Economic Development. He served on Governor John Bel Edwards’ transition team as a member of the business community.Wayne has been honored numerous times for his business and civic contributions. In 2017 Junior Achievement inducted him into the North Louisiana Business Hall of Fame. Southern University named Wayne a 2014 Southern Gentleman. He was named Bossier Chamber of Commerce Small Businessman of the Year, one of the Top Ten Small Business People of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, and a finalist for Louisiana Entrepreneur of the Year. Brown Builders was awarded the Butler/BlueScope North American Volume Builder of the Year in 2014.