EVELYN BROWN
Ms. Evelyn (Evie) White Brown is currently Senior Vice President of Novatrics a Woman-owned 8 (a) Small Business focused on providing a wide-range of management and IT software development support. She is engaged in target marketing in the areas of HR consulting, executive coaching, leadership development, management assessment and software life-cycle support. Currently working with the US Department of Agriculture, other engagements included Health and Human Service, (Health Resources and Services Administration and the National Institutes of Health), local government agencies and Virginia State University. She is Chair of Lydia’s House Board of Directors a faith-based non-profit, HUD certified housing counseling agency which provides first-time home owners, financial literacy and other client assisted workshops as well as foreclosure prevention and post-purchase counseling to over 1,000 clients annually. She is also a Principal Advisory Board member with Compubahn, Inc. focused on management and IT solutions.
She had a successful federal career of over thirty (30) years where she retired from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) serving over 67,000 employees. She served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management an organization she helped establish. During this time, Ms. Brown successfully led efforts that employed business modernization techniques to save over $1 billion by consolidating redundant administrative and transactional systems. She also served on the HHS IT Investment Review Board concerning the development of agency specific and enterprise-wide systems.
At the Department of Agriculture, Ms. Brown was Director of HR for over 110,000 employees. Of major significance, she led efforts to reengineer a variety of human resource management programs using business modernization methodology. As a result, over 60 percent of USDA’s paper directives and job announcements were eliminated. Savings were estimated to exceed over $100 million annually. She served as Chair of the IT Change and Innovation Board serving USDA and a host of other Federal government customers serviced by the National Finance Center, a major government-wide transactional processing center.
Majoring in Education and Business Administration at Central Missouri State University and coursework at the USDA Graduate School, Ms. Brown utilized her education and professional experience to provide the needs of its customer-base and requirements of a developer using reengineering and/or business modernization techniques.
She is the recipient of the highest awards possible granted to Federal employees (Presidential Meritorious and Presidential Rank Awards), innovations in government awards received from The Vice-President, Tuskegee University, USDA, etc. She is a member of the Metropolitan Group, professional women providing cultural and educational activities to underprivileged children and families. She is the immediate past president of the “award winning” Arlington, VA Chapter of the Links, Incorporated a professional women’s service organization providing community service on health, arts, national, international and, services to youth issues to include 4-year scholarships to deserving students.
GEORGE W. BROWN
George W. Brown’s distinguished 45-year career covers accomplishments in the private, public, and neighborhood communities.
Mr. Brown is a graduate of Howard University and received his J.D. from Georgetown University. He has received many honors, which include the highest meritorious service awards from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the District of Columbia. From 1991 to 1994, he served the District of Columbia government, first as the Deputy Director for Business and Economic Development and then, beginning in 1992, as Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. In 1976, Mr. Brown was nominated by the Secretary of HUD and selected as a Presidential Executive, working with Bank of America in developing its community reinvestment program. Mr. Brown has been involved in the development of over 300 affordable single-family and multifamily housing developments and five office complexes.
Mr. Brown served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Neighborhoods with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development He authored the Section 202 Elderly Housing Program. He has lectured on Special Housing Needs at Yale and Columbia University, and was a delegate to an UN-sponsored conference on special housing needs in The Hague.
Assignment Highlights:
· Appointed by Mayor Anthony Williams as the first Chair of the DC Public Charter School Credit Enhancement Committee, which provides loans and guarantees for construction and acquisition of facilities for DC Public Charter Schools.
· President and CEO of Global Visions LLC, a business formation and economic development consulting firm.
· Founder and President of a faith-based community development corporation in Washington, DC. Far SW-SE Community Development Corporation (CDC) is the first “green” CDC in the District – focusing on sustainable and environmentally sensitive economic development. Mr. Brown is currently the chairman of the Board of the CDC which completed in May 2015, the construction of a $20 Million affordable housing, retail and office development project in Southeast Washington.
· Adjunct Professor and Director of the Center for Workforce Strategies and Life-Long Learning, University of the District of Columbia, School of Business and Lecturer on Financing Senior Development – Columbia and Yale Universities.
· Board of Trustees of Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo).
· Secretary of the District’s Development Committee to oversee the negotiations and development of the Sports Arena built by Abe Polin. The Verizon Center (formerly the MCI Center), was pivotal in the massive economic transformation of the 7th Street/Chinatown Corridor.
· Senior Vice President and Director of the Center for Community Self Help (SH) and the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), Washington, D.C. offices. Self-Help is the nation’s largest non-profit community development lender, creating and protecting ownership opportunities for low-wealth families through home and small business ownership. Self-Help has provided over $3.5 billion in financing to help more than 30,000 low-wealth borrowers buy homes, build businesses, and strengthen their communities.
· Guest presenter to the Gerontological Society of America on Creative Financing for Elderly Housing.
· Managing Partner in the first minority-owned development project in Richmond, Virginia, involving the adaptive reuse of a historic hospital into rental housing for seniors.
· Managing partner in the law firm of Ellis, King, Brown & Prioleau, Washington DC. Legal counsel to the Hilton Hotel and Harrah’s Casino. Counsel to the Spirit Cruise Line in DC.
· Vice President of Marketing and Chief Compliance Officer, for The Edgar Lomax Company, a Virginia-based large cap value investment management firm, with almost $2 billion under management
· Program Officer for the New York-based Ford Foundation and Program Director for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). One of the first program officers for this nationally acclaimed community development financing intermediary. While at LISC, established local programs in California, Philadelphia, Missouri, and Washington, DC.