Curtis Brown

Curtis Brown is the current Chief Operating Officer at Polyverse Corporation, a cybersecurity software company. Prior to joining Polyverse, Curtis served as a Consultant, aligning technology to business strategy for two years.

Before their consultant work, Curtis spent 4 years and 6 months as the Chief Content and Technology Officer, and then Chief Information Officer at Dun & Bradstreet. There they led business, technology, and cultural transformation that reversed a 6-year decline to 8 quarters of growth. Curtis optimized 80% of D&B capital allocation designated to data operations and technology. Curtis also recruited C-level talent, implemented Lean/Agile methods and Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework to define/align performance, and improved go-to-market time by 50% across the company.

Curtis Brown attended New York University and obtained a BA in Psychology. Curtis also holds a Board-approved SEC Section 16 Designated Officer designation from Dun & Bradstreet (2015 – 2019); AOL (2012 – 2014); The Princeton Review (2002 – 2004).

The colleagues of Curtis Brown include the Head of Engineering, Chris Hanaoka, the Chief Revenue Officer, Steve Potter, and the Chief Technology Officer, Archis Gore.