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Linda Mason, Chairman and Founder, co-founded Bright Horizons in 1986 with her husband, Roger Brown, and a small team of committed parents in Cambridge, MA, and served as president until becoming chairman of Bright Horizons Family Solutions in July 1998. Linda Mason is also the author of The Working Mother's Guide to Life: Strategies, Secrets, and Solutions, released in November 2002. She and Roger Brown co-founded Horizons for Homeless Children, a nonprofit organization that serves the needs of homeless mothers and their children throughout the Boston area. Prior to founding Bright Horizons, Linda Mason managed large-scale relief operations overseas. She served as co-director of Save the Children's emergency program in Sudan, serving 400,000 famine and war victims, and directed a large feeding program for children in Cambodian refugee camps along the Thai border. She is a 1998 honoree in Redbook's "Mothers and Shakers" awards for her work to improve the quality of child care, and she and Roger Brown were the 1996 recipients of the Ernst & Young/USA Today "Entrepreneur of the Year" award. Linda also received Working Mother magazine one of the "25 Most Influential Mothers in America". Linda Mason serves on the boards of Yale University and Horizons for Homeless Children. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Management, Cornell University and the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She and Roger Brown have three children, all of whom are graduates of Bright Horizons child care and early education centers. | 