L. W. “BUD” BROWNE


Office:
(214) 943-2688
Mobile: (972) 342-4472


budbrowne@growthnetworld.com


Business Experience

As President and founder of GrowthNet Trading, LLC, a market entry and market expansion firm managing worldwide business development sales cycles and recruiting programs for global clients, Bud Browne may have already sold to or recruited the senior managers of your next new key account. Bud Browne specializes in selling engineered solutions and recruiting strategic hires, including general managers, regional managers, sales and operations managers, program/project managers, technical experts, proposal managers, engineers, scientists, lawyers, CFO's, and management consultants.

Bud Browne has sold turnkey power generation projects, built strategic alliances throughout the world, and developed and implemented marketing programs for diverse offerings – from oil refineries to nickel cadmium batteries to steam turbine plants. As the Marketing Director of the National Institute for Petroleum & Energy Research, he created the Petroleum & Energy Research Forum by enlisting the involvement of Shell, British Petroleum, AMOCO, ARCO, Chevron, Gulf, Conoco, DuPont, Phillips, and UNOCAL.

Bud founded a technology and trading company specializing in Far East and Latin America sales that provided marketing and business development support for engineering service and health care companies. In addition, Bud Browne has forged many UK business alliances, and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the British - American Business Council's North Texas Chapter. Bud played a key role in the formation of the Dallas-Fort Worth Homeland Security Alliance and is the Co-Chairman of their Energy Working Group.

His formal education includes an MBA in International Finance from Pace University, New York City, a B.S. in Physics from the University of Texas in Austin and US Army training as a Russian Linguist, Monterey, California. Bud resides in Dallas, Texas and is an avid builder of the Dallas Community, supporting the Kessler Park United Methodist Church (People Resources Committee Chair, Boy Scouts of America Committee Chair and Institutional Representative), the Good Shepherd Episcopal School (Odyssey of the Mind and People Resource Consultant) and Youth Soccer and Baseball (coach).