Eric Brown - Chief Operating Officer

Eric Brown is a15 year veteran of the cable television industry with a rare blend of senior level experience in cable network affiliate relations and experience in multiple cable system marketing and operations. Most recently Eric served as Executive Vice President for Herring Broadcasting’s WealthTV, a luxury lifestyle cable network where he helped revamp the programming and marketing offerings that delivered a 160% increase in viewership during 2009.
Prior to WealthTV, Eric was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales for The Africa Channel, where he was instrumental in expanding the channel’s distribution with cable operators serving major media markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco.

Prior to joining The Africa Channel, Eric served as President of Western Division Operations for Charter Communications where he had responsibility for operations serving over 1.2 million customers in six states with annual revenues exceeding $1.2 billion. He also served as President of the Minnesota Division of Time Warner Cable, and has held various senior marketing and operations positions with Time Warner Cable, Century Communications, Times Mirror Cable Television and Digital Music Express.

In addition to his cable industry experience, Brown worked for Landmark Communications, parent company of The Weather Channel, where he served as President of its Education Services Division and as New Ventures Director coordinating mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive experience in consumer brand management with a variety of consumer product companies, including The Procter & Gamble Company, H.J. Heinz, and Bumble Bee Seafoods.

A board member of the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) Foundation, Brown was one of the founding members of the Minnesota chapter. Brown is also the past Chairman of the California Cable and Telecommunications Association (CCTA). He is a recipient of the prestigious National Cable & Telecommunications Association Vanguard Award for excellence in cable operations and the cable industry’s CTAM Chairman’s Award for excellence in cable marketing.

A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Brown was a four time All-American in track and field, and also played football at UCLA. He earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Darden School of Business Management at the University of Virginia, and has completed post-graduate work including the NAMIC Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and the CTAMU Marketing Executive Education Program at the Harvard Business School.