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Michael Brown was most recently the Managing Director and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Investment Banking Group of Wells Fargo Securities where he completed numerous mergers and acquisitions, private placements and initial public offerings for companies in various segments of the consumer and technology industries. Mr. Brown was a member of the Investment Banking Commitment Committee of Wells Fargo Securities and coordinated the firm's investment banking activities in Southern California. Prior to joining the predecessor of Wells Fargo Securities, in September 2000, Mr. Brown was a Managing Director in Sutro & Co.'s Investment Banking Department and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions. Before joining Sutro, Mr. Brown was the founding Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert's West Coast Mergers and Acquisitions Department. During his seven-year tenure at Drexel, Mr. Brown's transactions included arranging the $1.6 billion sale of Jack Kent Cooke's cable properties to a consortium of cable operators, Turner Broadcasting's $1.2 billion purchase of MGM, the sale of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel to Regent International, the sale of the Desert Inn and Sands Casinos to MGM Grand, and T. Boone Pickens' attempted takeovers of Gulf Oil and UNOCAL. Mr. Brown was a member of Turner Broadcasting's Board of Directors. Prior to joining Drexel, Mr. Brown was a Partner specializing in mergers and acquisitions at Kidder Peabody & Co. in Los Angeles and Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions in the New York office of Goldman Sachs. Mr. Brown was a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. Mr. Brown is a graduate of Harvard University (M.B.A.) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (B.S.&E.). He has served with the U.S. Army Special Forces.
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