Michael Brown is an American entrepreneur, English solicitor, executive, and software engineer. He is one of Northwall Cyber's founding partners and its Chief Security Officer. His practice spans contentious and non-contentious technology, information security, intellectual property, and data protection law, and he also acts as CIO/CISO for numerous clients.
Before Northwall Cyber, Michael founded and exited several technology businesses built on digital business models. He was previously at Portemus, a boutique management consulting firm, where he advised mid-tier firms on technology strategy, IT transformation, systems auditing, and information security.
Prior to Portemus, he was responsible for the system design and security of Fruitful's online loan-origination platforms, including the development of a comprehensive risk-modelling system. Earlier, he served as Chief Technology Officer of Boltblue, a large online and wireless social media and content platform handling more than two billion transactions per month for more than fourteen million users globally.
At Nortel Networks, he was the Network Design Authority for more than half a billion dollars' worth of telecommunications networks deployed for leading European telecoms operators. He has also served on the boards of a number of technology companies.
His research areas include information security, algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud computing, cryptography, cybersecurity, decision science, network engineering, scoring systems, and risk modelling. He is an inventor of one of the seminal mCommerce patents used by organisations including RIM, Nortel Networks, IBM, Yahoo!, and Citrix.
Michael has lectured at London Business School and Harvard Business School on entrepreneurship, technology, and e/m-Commerce. He is a Fellow of both the British Computer Society and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and sits on the board of assessors for the registration and licensure of Chartered Engineers on behalf of the IET and the UK Engineering Council.
He is an alumnus of Rensselaer and Harvard Business School.