Lynn C. Brown joined Waste Management, Inc. as Vice President, Corporate Communications in May 2005 where she and her team support both internal communications and external communications, as well as reputation management. She came to Waste Management from Greyhound Lines, Inc. where she served as Vice President of Corporate Communications for 5 years. Prior to Greyhound, Brown spent 18 years with Texas Instruments, Inc. and the Raytheon Company, where she held various operations and support roles in the defense and electronics business. While at Raytheon she was appointed Vice President of Communications for Raytheon Systems Company, managing internal and external communications, advertising, and community relations.
Brown earned her bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Duke University and her MBA from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Leadership roles with community affiliations include the Junior League of Houston, serving on the Community Advisory Panel, and the Leadership Houston Board of Directors, 2006-2012. She is a senior fellow from the American Leadership Forum Class XXVI, and was named a trustee of the Institute for Public Relations in 2008. She sits on the board of Audubon Texas.
Awards include the Hammer Award from Vice President Al Gore’s Reinventing Government, 1996; PR Week Multi-Cultural Marketing Campaign of the Year, 2002; and Gold SABRE for the 40th Anniversary Freedom Rides Celebration, 2002. Runner up PR Week best CSR Annual Report, 2009.