J. B. Brown grew up in rural Louisiana; he is the ninth of eleven children. At the age of 5 he contracted polio and was hospitalized for 6 months. He fully recovered and became a High School Merit Scholar and All-State football player.
J. B. graduated from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1968 with a degree in physics and math. It was while at Southern that General Electric recruited him as a Junior Researcher & Engineer. He spent 34 years with General Electric in a variety of positions and locations, retiring as Sales & Marketing Executive in 2002. In 2002 he became co-owner and Executive VP of Sales of VertiSol Corporation, an IT company headquartered in Charlotte, NC. His expertise lies in the fields of engineering, sales, marketing, and technical management.
He is a Believer and believes in giving back by tutoring youth in his community, mentoring small businesses as a SCORE volunteer, serving in his church and on several non-profit board of Directors and volunteering on community improvement organizations. Most recently he worked with the residents of Timberlake in developing a plan to purchase Timberlake Country Club where he served as General Manager and Chairman of the Board. JB is presently managing several commercial holdings where he is a partner.
JB enjoys golfing, reading, traveling, working in the yard and learning to fish. He and his wife Toni relocated to Chapin, SC in May 2003. They are the proud parents of three children: a daughter, a lawyer living in Los Angeles, CA; a son, an IT analyst living in Charlotte, North Carolina; and a son who Pastor in Orangeburg, South Carolina; and four grandchildren. JB is a Golden member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
His motto: "I want to be more Christlike today than I was on yesterday."
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