Greg Brown to Chair Pro Football Hall of Fame National Advisory Board
Aug 19 | General
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Greg Brown, Motorola Solutions Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will serve as the first chair of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's National Advisory Board.
Brown – who was recently named the 2026 Chief Executive of the Year by Chief Executive magazine – and nine other executives from across the country will provide guidance and expertise in the Hall of Fame's transformation. The Hall of Fame team will execute a broad range of projects and initiatives in coming years, including the "Evolve 2030" plan to modernize the museum through a multimillion-dollar investment.
A 1982 graduate of Rutgers' Livingston College, Brown and his wife Anna, have been fervent supporters of University initiatives, including their significant philanthropic contributions to the athletic department. The couple were recognized with the 1869 Legacy Award, the most distinguished honor bestowed to an athletics supporter who has made a lifetime impact on the lives of Rutgers student-athletes through generosity, involvement and commitment.
The recruiting pavilion at SHI Stadium and football locker room bears the Brown Family name as signature capital investments the pair have made to athletics. Their interests and support of the University extend beyond sports, including their contributions to the Rutgers Psychological Clinic at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Anna is the granddaughter of Henry and Anna Starr, who founded the original clinic in 1929. They also created the Gregory Q. Brown Chair in Cell Biology and Neuroscience in honor of his mother, Winifred Brown.
The former chairman of the Rutgers University Board of Governors, Brown served on the University's Board of Trustees and on the Rutgers University Foundation Board of Overseers. In 2010, he was inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni, an honor bestowed on Rutgers graduates who have devoted time and energy to the greater good of society and the University.
Brown, who joined Motorola as a division president in 2003, became CEO of the original Motorola in 2008 before engineering one of the boldest strategic reinventions in modern American business history: splitting the company in two and spinning off the consumer handset division to build Motorola Solutions from the public safety and enterprise technology assets that remained.
Over the last 18 years, Brown has transformed what was once a struggling cellular handset manufacturer into the backbone of America's public safety infrastructure—a company whose technology powers the majority of 911 systems in the United States and serves police and emergency response organizations worldwide.
Under Brown, Motorola Solutions has delivered a total shareholder return exceeding 1,400 percent since the 2011 spin-off, with the stock gaining 50 percent in 2024 alone. He has completed more than 55 acquisitions, expanding aggressively into video security, command center solutions software, and most recently a new defense market through the $4.4 billion acquisition of high-speed mobile ad-hoc network technology maker Silvus Technologies in 2025.
Brown – who was recently named the 2026 Chief Executive of the Year by Chief Executive magazine – and nine other executives from across the country will provide guidance and expertise in the Hall of Fame's transformation. The Hall of Fame team will execute a broad range of projects and initiatives in coming years, including the "Evolve 2030" plan to modernize the museum through a multimillion-dollar investment.
A 1982 graduate of Rutgers' Livingston College, Brown and his wife Anna, have been fervent supporters of University initiatives, including their significant philanthropic contributions to the athletic department. The couple were recognized with the 1869 Legacy Award, the most distinguished honor bestowed to an athletics supporter who has made a lifetime impact on the lives of Rutgers student-athletes through generosity, involvement and commitment.
The recruiting pavilion at SHI Stadium and football locker room bears the Brown Family name as signature capital investments the pair have made to athletics. Their interests and support of the University extend beyond sports, including their contributions to the Rutgers Psychological Clinic at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Anna is the granddaughter of Henry and Anna Starr, who founded the original clinic in 1929. They also created the Gregory Q. Brown Chair in Cell Biology and Neuroscience in honor of his mother, Winifred Brown.
The former chairman of the Rutgers University Board of Governors, Brown served on the University's Board of Trustees and on the Rutgers University Foundation Board of Overseers. In 2010, he was inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni, an honor bestowed on Rutgers graduates who have devoted time and energy to the greater good of society and the University.
Brown, who joined Motorola as a division president in 2003, became CEO of the original Motorola in 2008 before engineering one of the boldest strategic reinventions in modern American business history: splitting the company in two and spinning off the consumer handset division to build Motorola Solutions from the public safety and enterprise technology assets that remained.
Over the last 18 years, Brown has transformed what was once a struggling cellular handset manufacturer into the backbone of America's public safety infrastructure—a company whose technology powers the majority of 911 systems in the United States and serves police and emergency response organizations worldwide.
Under Brown, Motorola Solutions has delivered a total shareholder return exceeding 1,400 percent since the 2011 spin-off, with the stock gaining 50 percent in 2024 alone. He has completed more than 55 acquisitions, expanding aggressively into video security, command center solutions software, and most recently a new defense market through the $4.4 billion acquisition of high-speed mobile ad-hoc network technology maker Silvus Technologies in 2025.
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