Out-of-This-World Solution-Solver Credits Learning Above All Else for Global Success: 2024 Inclusive Leader for Global Impact, Dr. Kevin Brown
Dr. Kevin Brown is a Founder of QRL Semi and Great Ball of Light Inc. and has over 30 years of experience in corporate and government service driving innovative research, team building, systems development, and worldwide operations. He has served as Chief Scientist or Chief Engineer at the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the National Reconnaissance Office. An inventor, Kevin brings entrepreneurship and hands-on experience in developing and delivering breakthrough technologies, products, and operational capabilities. He earned a Ph.D. in developing new finite sequences for communications at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
Born in Miami, Florida, as the youngest of three siblings, Kevin grew up in a lively and colorful home that treasured family, respect for others, and learning above all else. In his formative years, he lived a hallmark experiment of integration where his black neighborhood elementary school was integrated by children bussed in from other neighborhoods. He credits this experiment not for its educational accomplishment but for his learning to build productive and enduring relationships with people of all ethnicities and walks of life. The constant challenge of his mother's intellect, his father's keen philosophical approach to just about everything, and a village of WWII veteran families created an environment that gave him the confidence to experiment and the freedom to grow. As Kevin explains, there were no questions in his home that did not find a challenging question in return, and for whatever shortfalls he may have had, neither were there any excuses.
Kevin is a proponent of making the best use of what you have been given and being confident in the challenges you take on, even when others are not. He has led numerous ventures from space navigation to developing new energy storage materials and now breakthrough semiconductor designs and is known to move adeptly across disciplines and from abstract to practical in search of advocates and solutions. He is also known to never be a stranger to a great idea. In every venture, his purpose is to break with the norm to develop new and meaningful solutions, often where there is no commonly accepted likelihood of success. He also believes that business ventures without a purpose for humanity have vanishing value.
Resolving the critical issues of resilience and creating opportunity for all should not just move us to greater incremental effectiveness but become foundational in our daily lives. He also believes a great education and lifelong learning should be a part of mainstream living. But so too, should giving. Kevin is emphatic that waiting to give of ourselves may be one of life's greatest misfortunes as even our smallest treasure of time, listening, and action exponentiate in the lives of others in ways over time we often cannot anticipate. The GlobalMindED Success Network opens a via to drive inclusion up and down organizations and investments in people now. He has never seen a gift like this not return an impact to organizational goals or a more valuable lesson of life.
Kevin supports issues from ecology and human resilience to human trafficking. Closer to home, he invests in in-depth mentoring, education, and the arts. Ventures built on new ideas and human impact are Kevin's driving focus and where he continues to seek new commitments and out-of-this-world solutions.
