Brown & Company specializes in helping companies create more successful products. It does that by empowering small teams of developers with the tools they need to more effectively pursue innovation, create differentiation and better manage market risk during the new product development process. Companies create a culture that embraces customers and quantifies competitors, leading to strength in both new products and the business models behind them. Its founder, Ronald Brown, has a unique combination of high tech and consumer marketing experience. He has successfully led a number of startup companies moving from technology-only stages to selling products and building customer franchises. He was president of eFax.com, where he led in the creation of an internet service that attracted millions of users. Currently, he is CEO and co-founder of United Keys, an early stage company bringing interactive technology to traditional input devices. Brown has consulted for companies as large as Philips Electronics and as small as individual patent holders. He has heavy product development experience, is a patent holder himself and has a strong background leveraging manufacturing and distribution resources. Brown developed classic consumer marketing skills as an account manager at advertising agencies J. Walter Thompson and BBDO. At JWT, he was part of the team that managed Hewlett-Packard’s personal computers and printers businesses. Before that, Brown worked for the Nestle Company.