Early Career
Brown was born on February 13, 1926 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his father worked for a company that manufactured blast furnaces. He attended Harvard University, where he was a cartoonist for the Harvard Lampoon. After graduating from college he worked for Chemical Bank in the early 1950s and later worked for a company that would later become part of Citibank. In 1963 he joined Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association in a position where he managed the firm's securities investments.
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