Intro: The KWTC is pleased to announce that Robert L. Brown will serve as President of the Kentucky World Trade Center, in addition to his role as Vice-Chairman. Mr. Brown is an accomplished international attorney with Greenebaum Doll & McDonald office, current chair of the American Bar Association's Asia/Pacific Committee and has written many books on international business.

Robert Brown is a member in the Louisville office of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, where he devotes his attention to representing emerging businesses – both start-ups and established companies going overseas. Mr. Brown's areas of expertise include antitrust and unfair competition, corporate and securities, economic development, exports and imports, finance, international, mergers and acquisitions, and product distribution.

His background blends law and business. During the three years of law school, he also obtained a masters degree in community development and an MBA. After law school, he worked for one of Japan's leading trading companies, Mitsui & Co., where he helped establish its legal department. During two years in its Tokyo head office, he earned a masters degree in business
from a Japanese university.

Next, Mr. Brown was a partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, as it was then known. While working in the firm's San Francisco office, he taught at Berkeley Law School. Later, he established and became the managing partner of the firm's Tokyo office. After receiving a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, he served as General Counsel to Tiernan Communications, Inc., a California-based company that was the international leader in production and marketing of digital media products and systems. There he handled legal and regulatory issues, both domestically and internationally. During his three years with the company, he helped it grow from $100,000 to almost $25 million in annual sales.

In 2004, he received another Ph.D., this one from The London School of Economics and Political Science, as well as an Advanced Accounting Certificate from Bellarmine University. In 2005, he passed all parts of the CPA exam. Mr.

Brown has written many books, including:

Financing Start-Ups
Equity Finance: Venture Capital, Buyouts, Restructurings and Reorganizations
Emerging Businesses
Advising New Businesses
International Business Plans
Limited Liability Companies Guide
Doing Business on the Internet
Managing Your e-Business/Hong Kong
Asian Economic and Legal Development
Commercial Laws of East Asia
Intellectual Property Laws of East Asia

He is admitted as an attorney in New York, Washington DC, California and Kentucky, and is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, and in Hong Kong. From 1991-3, Mr. Brown was admitted as a foreign lawyer in Japan. He is presently chair of the American Bar Association Asia/Pacific Committee.