Ron Brown is a partner with Heidrick & Struggles and a core member of the firm’s CEO & Board Practice. He brings more than two decades of advising CEOs and boards on succession planning and building high-performance leadership teams through executive search and leadership advisory.

Brown joined Heidrick & Struggles in 1996 in Washington, D.C., and in 1998, he moved to California, where he helped open a new office. He is a Colorado native, and in 2000 he opened the firm’s first Denver office. Brown has held various leadership positions within Heidrick & Struggles including managing partner of Principal Development; managing partner, Western Region; managing partner, Cleantech Practice; and managing partner of the Americas for the Global Technology & Services Practice. He was elected by his partners to the firm’s Global Partnership Council.

Prior to Heidrick & Struggles, Brown served in various appointed government positions, including deputy associate director of Presidential Personnel at The White House. He began his career in marketing and government relations positions with a major policy research institution.

Brown was appointed to the State of Colorado IT Economic Development Advisory Council. He is an emeritus member of the Board of the University of Colorado’s Denver College of Business and is past chairman of the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship there.

Brown has attended executive programs at Harvard Business School and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and he is a graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.