Brown is a partner in Perez-Brown Media Group Inc.,a consulting firm specializing in niche content development and media strategies. A senior television executive with experience as a broadcast journalist, Brown has more than 20 years experience developing and implementing innovative programming concepts, formats,and strategies at leading cable and broadcast networks.

His 1998 book, Sacred Bond: Black Men and Their Mothers,explores this intimate subject through interviews with African American men. After graduating from Syracuse with a major in international relations, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon and was founding member of the International Youth Leadership Institute, a non-profit educational organization focusing on international exchange for high school students. Brown earned a master's degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1992.

Before launching Perez-Brown Media Group, Brown was senior vice president of news and public affairs at BET Networks, managing editorial content across the company various distribution platforms. Under his leadership, BET undertook a major expansion of its political reporting, offering live convention and election-night coverage during the 2008 presidential campaign and carrying the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama. During his five-year tenure at BET, Brown served as executive producer of more than 30 special programs and BET News and Public Affairs garnered more than 40 awards, including an Emmy, two NAACP Image Awards, and the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. In his role as a broadcast journalist, Brown has reported and produced for some of the most prestigious news organizations in the industry. He was an on-air correspondent and producer for the PBS series, Now with Bill Moyers, and a senior producer at NBC News for Dateline Specials with Geraldo Rivera. Brown was associate producer of In the Killing Fields of America, a three-hour CBS News documentary on violence hosted by Dan Rather, Ed Bradley, and Mike Wallace, receiving three of broadcast journalism's most prestigious honors: the George Foster Peabody Award, Robert F. Kennedy Award, and an Emmy Award.

In 2009, Brown was honorary chair of SU’s University Union Reunion Committee.