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As the Senior Executive Assistant Dean, Dr. Brown built and serves as the Director of Luddy ALIGN, as well as the Academic Director of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program and Executive Director of the Shoemaker Innovation Center. He also chairs the Shoebox Fund investment committee and serves as the point of contact for strategic discussions related to the commercialization of faculty research. In addition, Dr. Brown serves as the Co-Director of the Grant Thornton Institute for Data Exploration for Risk Assessment and Management (GT-IDEA) and the faculty advisor for the Shoemaker Scholars, Product Management Club, and Ideation & Creation Entrepreneurs (ICE). Prior to returning to Indiana University to pursue his doctoral degree, Dr. Brown spent his career within the intersection of business and technology, focusing on performance management, entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, business analytics, software development, and interaction design in corporate and small business settings.