As the Senior Executive Assistant Dean, Dr. Brown built and serves as the Academic Director of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program and Cross-curricular Education, Executive Director of the Shoemaker Innovation Center, Chair of the Shoebox Fund, and point of contact for strategic discussions related to the commercialization of faculty research. Dr. Brown also serves as the Co-Director of the Grant Thornton Institute for Data Exploration for Risk Assessment and Management (GT-IDEA). In addition, he is 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.