Joseph Brown

Biography: Joseph Brown Chief Innovation Officer AECOM San Francisco, CA Joseph Brown serves as Chief Innovation Officer for AECOM (NYSE: ACM), an $8-billion global provider of professional technical and management support services. AECOM’s 45,000 employees – including architects, engineers, designers, planners, scientists and management and construction services professionals – serve clients in more than 140 countries around the world. In this position, Mr. Brown leads enterprise focus on leveraging innovation and creativity as key aspects of the company. This includes strategically supporting AECOM's Global Cities initiative - an institute that engages worldwide collaboration among engineering and design experts to produce forward-thinking solutions for the evolving roles of metropolitan regions. Mr. Brown also actively champions efforts around sustainability, serves as the committee chairman for AECOM's brand steering committee and is deeply involved with driving enterprise processes to deliver inventive, turnkey solutions to large multi-national and global clients. Mr. Brown has 30 years of experience as a planner and landscape architect, with particular emphasis on new community planning, urban planning and redevelopment, community revitalization, historic and cultural design, and issues confronting rapid-growth areas. Examples of his work include the new Tokyo Midtown mixed-use development in the city's Roppongi neighborhood; the Suzhou Historic District Revitalization Plan in Suzhou, China; and the redevelopment of Denver's Stapleton Airport site as urban community and parks. With others, he was responsible for a highly respected but controversial early New Orleans renewal strategy sponsored by the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Mr. Brown has been involved in the advancement of many notable projects. These include MeadWestvaco's holdings in Charleston, South Carolina; TimberWest's on Vancouver Island; and several projects for The St. Joe Company in West F