Small Business Management instructor

Linda Brown

Brown has a diverse business background which includes over 20+ years holding executive positions in both for-profit and non-profit sectors.  Brown started her career working as a senior product manager in consumer packaged goods/food manufacturing for H.J. Heinz in their Weight Watchers Frozen Food division, later transferring her marketing experience into other industries including educational software and services marketing for a high-end server manufacturer, later owned by IBM.  A long-term passion of Brown’s is youth mentoring and her last position was with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Washington in Bellingham, which she turned around financially and organizationally in the three years she served as CEO, holding responsibility for all facets of operations including fund raising, board development, financial oversight, planning, and marketing/community relations. She has authored two nationally-based manuals on effective marketing and policies/procedures for youth mentoring organizations. 

Brown has a MBA in marketing and management and MEd in community counseling.  She has been instructing the RCC Small Business Management program in Jackson County since 2007.