Rob Brown Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel

Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel

Manufactured

Jul 2018 - Current (8 years 4 months)

Strategy and Customer Success:
• Create International SaaS marketplace for Managed and Self Service customers.
• Work with customers as initial customer success with the Product team for early adopters.
Legal:
• Work as in-house General Counsel for day to day matters, contract, and legal.
• Work on online privacy, ToS and business engagements with customers, vendors and partners.
Finance:
• Working on day to day finances, approvals and expense management.
• Managing budgets, GMV tracker and financial modeling.
HR:
• Interviews, Onboarding of candidates.
• Working on Team Policy and enforcement of policies.

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Consultant

Teambrown Apparel

Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years 1 month)

• Licensed Apparel.
• Licensing, sales and social marketing for Teambrown Apparel, sports licensees of various sports and entertainment properties, developed new
verticals leading to 600% growth.
• Expert in Intellectual Property and licensing law.
• Social Media expertise with daily #Spotlights going out to Twitter, Facebook
and Instagram promoting History of Sports combined with product offerings.
• Product design and development as well as sourcing products, design personnel and manufacturers.
• Working with Non-Profits to reduce their costs and increase their branding via custom apparel.
• Website -

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COO and General Counsel

Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. & simEd Holdings, LLC

Sep 2004 - May 2017 (12 years 9 months)

Executive in charge of business development, strategy, operations
and legal. Created business models and established new markets in technology development/services, gaming, game based learning, scenario
based assessments, education, learning, teacher training and workforce
development.

• Responsible for over $20 million in revenue. Full P&L responsibility for private
entity that was profitable and debt free. Established new business markets and delivery networks with agreements domestically and internationally.

• Developed a serious game used by 15 million people, and created business model generating revenue from an otherwise free game. As that market
slowed, did strategic planning

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Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel

PSV Ratings, Current Attractions Magazine

Management of the first universally applicable ratings system, providing
comprehensive, accurate and objective content information in film, music, print, video games, TV and the internet. Generated from database driven
technology, featuring over 10,000,000 rule combinations developed by an independent standards board.

• Attorney - expert with children's privacy law and data collection, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) & Children's Advertising
Review Unit (CARU).

• Legislative Affairs in Washington DC and Sacramento, CA regarding video game legislation.

• Led creation of Coalition for Independent Ratings Services with five leading
independent

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Vice President of Operations and General Counsel

Site Systems

Operations, legal, management and fiscal responsibility for internet marketing consulting company.

• Responsible for multi-million dollar internet marketing budget and data
analytics on 250 web sites including: data collection (over 3 million form impressions), sweepstakes, email blasts (over 10 million), ad distribution (140 million ad impressions) and video for marketing and ecommerce web sites for
20th Century Fox.

• Attorney - expertise in Privacy Polices, Terms of Use, Online Sweepstakes
and adherence to legal issues relating to COPPA and CARU guidelines for data collection for children under 13 years of age.

AFTRA - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (N

Director of Interactive Media, New Technologies and IS & National Manager of IT

Interactive media

Member of the negotiating team that successfully negotiated the Industry's first Interactive Media Agreement. (IMA)

• Personally responsible for signing more than 200 Interactive Media companies to AFTRA's IMA.

• Technical expert for other AFTRA and SAG•AFTRA Collective Bargaining
Agreements (CBA's).

• Responsible for union talent payment issues including Taft-Hartley, employment of minors, contributions to the AFTRA multi-employer health and pension plans, and residual payments.

• Responsible for rights management, participations, residuals and collective bargaining.

• Negotiated development agreement with international partner to develop $2.5 million

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President/Owner

Blanket Software

Clients have included:

• AFTRA, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY - principle consultant on all IT
and IP aspects of consolidation (Merger) with Screen Actors Guild. Drafted
Request for Proposal (RFP) and performed analysis on the proposals for the redesign of their web site. Consulted on the renegotiation of their national
telecommunications agreement with AT&T.

• Kazarian/Spencer & Associates Inc. (KSA), North Hollywood, CA - Designed
a FileMaker Pro integrated work management solution for all aspects of management of a talent agency, including contacts, bookings, invoices, deal
memos and conflicts, and integrated with 3rd party payment software. Full
system to be marketed as

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Legal Assistant/Contract Administration

Writers Guild of America West

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Sales and Marketing

Oklahoma City 89ers

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