Mr. Brown is the Practice Lead for privacy within IBM Canada and is the designated privacy subject matter expert for the Practice worldwide. He works with clients across a broad range of industries to help them assess their privacy issues and needs, and to develop the approaches and solutions to address those issues and needs. His privacy knowledge and experience spans strategy, policy, organizational issues, process analysis, IT implications, privacy architecture and the emerging field of privacy enhancing technology. His focus is on helping organizations leverage personal information responsibly while respecting the privacy of their clients and employees. He is also experienced in a broad range of security topics such as security policy development and ISO 17799 assessment.

Mr. Brown's privacy and security experience has included client engagements and other initiatives across a wide ranged of industries including Banking, Health Care, Insurance, Retail, Travel, Pharmaceutical, Children's Aid, Infomediary and Professional Services.

Mr. Brown has over 20 years of broad IT experience spanning enterprise system and network support, process re-engineering and quality improvement, outsourcing, and e-business development, with varied responsibilities as systems programmer, project manager, manager, change agent, unit CIO and consultant. His assignments have led to excellent people, business, and analytical skills, and a broad perspective of the IT industry. He has a BSc and an Engineering Degree from the University of Toronto and has been a member of the Ontario Professional Engineers (P.Eng) since 1986. He is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and in ITIL foundations.