David Brown, President

As founder and president of Datotel, LLC, David Brown develops Datotel’s strategic direction and oversees the promotion of Datotel’s vast platform of products and services.

Prior to the creation of Datotel, Brown spent five years working in the United States and the United Kingdom as a consultant for Oracle, specializing in large-scale enterprise systems integration.

In 2004, Brown initiated the creation of Datotel - bringing quality colocation, managed services, proactive monitoring and insourcing resources to the St. Louis region along with his expertise in delivering top-tier IT systems.

Today, Datotel is a carrier-class data center facility complemented with a full suite of IT services to manage technology systems. Based in St. Louis , Mo. , Datotel is a $7 million; state-of-the-art colocation facility built, managed and designed to provide IT infrastructures and systems a secure, stable and highly available environment in which to operate.

Brown is an active board member of the United Way , participating in the Strategic Planning Committee and co-chairing the Servathon Committee. Brown is also an advisor on the St. Louis Post Dispatch Community Advisory Board, and a Board Member of the Scottish St . Andrews Society. In 2007 he was presented by the Presidents Council on service and civic participation with the Presidents Volunteer Service Award for his commitment to strengthening our nation and making a difference through volunteer service.

Brown is a member of Entrepreneurs Organization, formally YEO and is also a member of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association's Leadership Circle, a business organization offered to top executives from leading for-profit regional businesses. The Leadership Circle provides a unique and invigorating forum to connect executives of small, medium and large companies to the broad base of influential leaders in the St. Louis region.

Brown holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honors in Information Systems Engineering and a Master of Information Management from Heriot-Watt University and Washington University in St. Louis respectively. Brown also holds a Masters in Business Administration from the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society, the Institution of Electrical Engineers—Europe's largest group of professional engineers as well as and the British Computer Society. Brown received the St. Louis Business Journal 30 under 30 award in 2005.