Lew Brown is a five-time chief executive, chief operating officer, and president with more than thirty years in consumer technology and connected devices. He has built and scaled companies from early stage through exit, and has led product, operations, and revenue across smart home, audio, and sensor businesses. He builds diverse cultures where people are excited to put on their pants, kilts, culottes or skirts in the morning and get after the mission. He is a dealmaker who opens channels others cannot reach, and an operator who knows what breaks when a company grows fast. He advises boards, mentors founders, and is known for direct counsel and an instinct for where a category is heading before the market agrees. He lives in Oakland, CA.
Lew Brown is a five-time chief executive, chief operating officer, and president with more than thirty years in consumer technology and connected devices. He was chief executive of MiOS, where he closed more than thirty white label and original equipment manufacturer partnerships with Orange, Telmex, and Constellation Energy before the company was acquired by Ezlo Innovation. He led DEN Smart Home as president, co-invented SmartStrike lock technology, and built channel partnerships with Bosch, Pella, Consumer Cellular. Earlier he spent a decade at Pacific Stereo, rising to divisional merchandise manager. He serves on the Consumer Technology Association’s Entrepreneurial Council and its Accessibility and AgeTech Council.
Lew works alongside operating teams rather than handing over a deck and leaving. He starts by finding where a company’s growth will break first, usually in operations or channel, and works the problem with the people who own it. He asks questions that force decisions rather than status updates, and he tells clients what he actually thinks, including when it isn’t what they hoped to hear. He builds diverse teams where people are glad to get to work in the morning. He is direct, he stays past the strategy phase, and he answers the phone.
Lew lives in Oakland, California with his wife and three boys, who are the best thing he has going. He is a gym rat, and has been for years. He got his real education over a decade at Pacific Stereo, learning the business from the sales floor up, and still believes the best ideas come from the people closest to the customer. Outside work he mentors founders who are building something for the first time.
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