Coco Brown

Coco’s background includes serving on 10 for-profit and nonprofit executive and advisory boards, and her executive experience includes founding and building two companies and service as the President and COO of a leading tech company. She has attended hundreds of board meetings and served on numerous committees to provide input and guidance around M&A, divestiture, CEO succession and compensation, corporate strategy, financial planning, change management, crisis management, and more.

Her current venture, Athena Alliance, launched in 2021. It focuses on transforming the way executives learn, leveraging innovative SaaS-based model that integrates community, executive development, and access to opportunities. The goal is to accelerate wisdom and advancement at the speed of business in the C-suite and boardrooms.

Before Athena, Coco created Executive Kinections, a CXO-focused consultancy that advised executive teams in developing vision, strategy, and organizational design. Prior to that, she enjoyed a 16-year career with Taos, a leader in cloud, DevOps, automation, and more. She served as President & COO for 10 years, taking on the role at the behest of the founders to save the company from bankruptcy. She successfully pulled the company back from the bring through streamlining and new service offerings. The company was subsequently acquired by IBM.

Coco has a BA degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.