ADC Board of Directors

henry brown

Henry Brown has served three terms on the ADC board, having joined in 2011.

Mr. Brown is a principal with WEB Ventures, a management consulting firm focused on strategic planning for diversity and economic inclusion. WEB is helping to ensure inclusion in all aspects of the development and operating process of the Uptown Innovation Corridor, centered at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Reading Road in Uptown Cincinnati. Their work includes construction contracts, employment, developers, and investors. The WEB Ventures team has played a central role in recruiting the principals of Queen City Hills, LLC to the Corridor. This will be largest African American-led real estate development project in the Cincinnati region's history.

Mr. Brown retired from Procter & Gamble in 1999 as the Director of World Wide Engineering. Before founding WEB Ventures in 2014, he provided consulting services to small and mid-size construction and construction-related companies.

Mr. Brown’s record of community service is long and deep. He was the volunteer project manager for the design and construction of a full service Carl H. Lindner family branch of the YMCA built in Cincinnati’s inner city in 2005. He is a member of the Greater Cincinnati YMCA Board of Directors, past member of the YMCA of the USA Board of Trustees, past board chair of the Greater Cincinnati YMCA and member of the Wesley Education Center volunteer board.

In addition to his work for the YMCA, Mr. Brown was project manager and advisor to the Board for design and construction of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Museum, which opened on the Cincinnati riverfront in August 2004. He was a past director of Seven Hills Neighborhood House and past director and board chairman of Lenox Savings Bank (now Foundations Bank).

Mr. Brown has also maintained generous and continuous involvement and support for his alma mater, Missouri University of Science and Technology. He served on the Diversity Subcommittee of the MSM-UMR Alumni Association Board and as Chairman of the Order of the Golden Shillelagh (philanthropic outreach) board for two terms. Brown also served as chairman of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on African American Recruitment and Retention. He has been elected to the UMR Civil Engineering Academy for outstanding professional and civic contributions and received the Robert V. Wolf Alumni Service Award. Henry is a founder of the Epsilon Psi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha on the UMA campus. Mr. Brown also maintains generous and continuous involvement and support for his alma mater, Missouri University of Science and Technology. He served two terms on the University's Board of Trustees.

Henry and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Avondale, one of Cincinnati’s urban neighborhoods.