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After graduating from The Johns Hopkins University with a BSEE degree in 1966, Mr. Brown started his engineering career with Hewlett Packard. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Brown and a few colleagues formed IDEAS, Inc. Mr. Brown was the founding President/CEO of IDEAS, Inc. Mr. Brown is one of Washington's most successful high-tech entrepreneurs. Over the past 35+ years, Mr. Brown led a family of high-tech companies whose success is measured in double?digit growth. The technologies span telecommunications and fiber optic systems, leading-edge information technologies for hospitality information and retail systems, electronic point-of-sale, network management, media asset management, and other technology-enablers for the 21st century. All together, these companies employ over 3,500 people worldwide with combined corporate sales exceeding $800 million. Since its founding in 1970, Mr. Brown has led IDEAS in the incubation, growth and development of numerous companies: MICROS Systems (NASDAQ: MCRS), worldwide leader in hospitality management systems for hotels and restaurants, was founded in 1975 and had its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in 1981. MICROS has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 200 Small and Medium Sized Corporations in 2004 as well as seven times during the decade of the ?90s. Autometric, Inc. was acquired by IDEAS in 1977 from Raytheon Corporation as a 23-person, $1 million/year revenue entity; grown to over 600 professionals with annual sales in excess of $100 million; and sold to the Boeing Corporation in 2000. The focus of Autometric is visual computing software, remote sensor image processing, and modeling and simulation systems. Current IDEAS subsidiary/affiliate corporations include: Concentia Digital - A premier provider of digital multimedia content products and services, principally to the Federal Government and commercial broadcast and media industry. FiberGate - A regulated utility focused on providing dedicated ("dark") fiber optic bandwidth and services to a variety of customers. Strata Group - A leading provider of telecommunications management software to ILEC's, CLEC's, and independent Telecommunications Service Providers. Mr. Brown joined Precision Auto Care, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACI) in August, 2000 as President/CEO as part of a corporate re-capitalization plan. Mr. Brown has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since October 2003. Mr. Brown?s initial objectives were to refocus Precision Auto Care, Inc. on the core auto care operations and to divest non-core assets. That phase was completed by the end of FY03 (June 2003). The objectives now include both improving the business model and profitability of each franchise location, as well as growing the Precision Tune Auto Care system, both domestically and internationally. | 