Roger H. Brown

Roger H. Brown (born 1956) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and academic administrator and former president of Berklee College of Music.

[3] He then spent a year teaching science and math in Kenya before returning to the attending Yale School of Management, where he earned his MBA.

[3][4] After his first year at Yale, he and his wife, Linda A. Mason, co-directed Land Bridge, a famine relief program on the Cambodia-Thailand border.

Working under the auspices of CARE and UNICEF, the program served as many as 25,000 people a day and was the largest emergency food distribution effort ever attempted.

[3] After graduating, Brown took a job with Boston management consulting firm, Bain and Company, but left in January 1985 to co-direct famine relief efforts in Sudan for Save the Children.

[3] Returning to Boston, Brown and Mason co-founded Bright Horizons, which provided on-site child care for client-company employees, in 1986.

All applicants are required to have an audition and interview, an effort that sends admissions staff to cities around the globe on the Berklee World Tour searching for talented musicians.