Greg Brown, chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions and a Rutgers alumnus, was elected vice chair of the Rutgers Board of Governors at today’s meeting in New Brunswick. He will assume the post July 1.
Brown earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rutgers’ Livingston College in 1982.
He joined Motorola in 2003 and was elected to the company’s board of directors in 2007. He became CEO of Motorola in 2008 and led the successful spin-off of the consumer-focused Motorola Mobility in January 2011. He now leads Motorola Solutions, the leading provider of mission critical communications to government and enterprise customers.
Brown also serves on the Rutgers Board of Trustees and the Rutgers University Foundation’s Board of Overseers. He was the keynote speaker at Rutgers’ 246th anniversary commencement in May 2012, where he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Additionally, he was inducted into the Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2010.
Brown also is a proud supporter of Rutgers. He contributed toward the new recruiting pavilion and welcome center at High Point Solutions Stadium, and supports the Rutgers Psychological Clinic at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. In 2012, the board of directors of Motorola Solutions matched an anonymous gift and donated $1.5 million to create the Gregory Q. Brown Endowed Chair in the Rutgers University Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience.
Brown succeeds Gerald C. Harvey, who was elected chair of the Board of Governors today.
Established in 1766, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is America’s eighth-oldest institution of higher learning and one of the nation’s premier public research universities. Serving nearly 60,000 students on campuses in Camden, Newark and New Brunswick, Rutgers is one of only two New Jersey institutions represented in the prestigious Association of American Universities.