Tim Browne

Tim Browne is an American entrepreneur best known for his early involvement in several advanced technology start-ups including the Media Laboratory at MIT, The Interactive Television Consortium, Thinking Machines, and most recently, the , a foundation he helped found and today serves as its Executive Director. He is the son of William Donald Browne, Director of Philanthropy for The Cudahy Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
In 1989, Browne was the Executive Producer of the first live interactive broadcasts of NFL Monday Night Football, Major League Baseball, Professional Golfers' Association of America, Professional Bowlers Association and the United States Tennis Association in cooperation with NBC Sports, ABC Sports, General Motors, AT&T, Coca Cola and McCann-Erickson.
Browne was a cast member on the highly acclaimed NHK Television's Eigo Shokyu Kaiwa with Tazaki Sensei in Japan.
Browne has also written a technology column for the Yomiuri Shimbun, worked for IBM as General Manager of its Lotus Notes Marketing group, was CEO of Infoteria US, and helped found Instant Technologies of Durham, New Hampshire. He lives with his youngest daughter, Piper, in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. His elder daughters, Emily and Kelsey live in New York city.
While doing graduate work at Columbia University in New York City, Browne translated a number of Japanese literary works. These included classic Kabuki texts such as Chikamatsu's Sword of Nakamichi (The Sword of Nagamachi, 1690) and more modern works such as 's Tomodachi (Friends, 1967) and Matsumoto Seicho's historical nonfiction work, Nippon no Kuroi Kiri (Black Fog over Japan, 1961).
Today Browne serves as President of TTR Technologies, a Lake Forest, IL based company providing online services to clients such as the the BCS Bowls (The Rose Bowl, The Sugar Bowl, and The Orange Bowl) and Major League Baseball. He also has a seat on TTR's Board of Directors.

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