Coley Brown

Background

About Coley Brown

PROFESSIONALI am a co-founder and CEO VisionMine a division of CTB Consulting which provides a specialized Open Innovation portal to large corporations. VisionMine provides a service that allows corporate clients collaborative access to early start-up innovations, new technologies, and entrepreneurs that solve business problems. The process starts with a specialized screening process based on business challenges posted by the clients innovation team. The data being screened comes from many different sources and is integrated with a proven innovation review and management process.I am also the founder and President of CTB Consulting, inc [ where I built a successful consulting group to large and medium sized corporations. CTB Consulting specialized in driving innovation initiatives and the successful introduction of new processes and technologies at in these organizations.I am an active angel Investor and past member of with Robin Hood Ventures [ screening committee. I was also an adviser to Ben Franklin Technology Partners [ My personal experience includes starting 5 companies in 3 different industries over a 40 year career.PERSONAL* Sailing: Owner of a 60ft catamaran charter company with over logged ocean miles and a USCG 100T Masters License* Cars: Owner RennTech C74 Mercedes featured in Car and Driver and Harley Davidson custom water cooled V-Rod, Previously built a Turbo Porsche Speedster featured on the cover of Kit Car Magazine* ParaGliding: Certified PPG-2 pilot flying a "X-One" Fresh Breeze trike* Drone Aerial Photography: FAA licensed part 107 commercial drone pilot * Judo: Black Belt and previous national competitor* Competitive shooting: NSCA sporting clay association, Past Vice President Tenafly Rifle and Pistol Club [ scuba diving, wind surfing, and gliding* Active Fire Fighter and EMT at Jasper Highlands Volunteer Fire Department, Jasper, TN