Colleen B Brown

Colleen joined Fisher Communications in October 2005 as president and CEO and was elected as a director of the company on October 26, 2006. Prior to joining Fisher, she was President and owner of Aberdeen Media Corporation, an entrepreneurial venture founded to pursue opportunities in the U.S. television market. From 2000-2003, Colleen served as Senior Vice President at Belo Corp. in Dallas, TX, the oldest media network in Texas, and from 1998-2000 was president of the broadcast group for Lee Enterprises, Inc. a multimedia company based in Davenport, Iowa. She also served in various senior management capacities at Gannett Co., Inc.’s broadcasting operations from 1980 to 1998. She serves on the board of directors for the National Association of Broadcasters, the Maximum Service Telecasters (MSTV), and the Television Bureau of Advertising. She has also served on the National Association of Television Program Executives, Arizona Chamber of Commerce, the Phoenix Symphony, the Board of Trustees for the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication at Arizona State University, the LPGA Standard Register/PING Board of Governors, the Fiesta Bowl Committee, NCCJ, Leadership North Carolina, the Colorado Children’s Chorale and the University of Colorado School of Journalism Board. She is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and Trustee of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT). Colleen earned a B.A. in Business Administration and Political Science from the University of Dubuque and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado. She is a member of the 2000 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.