RANGE OF EXPERIENCE AND ROLES

Project Manager, business consultant, equine economist, information technology systems developer, web site statistical data analyst, intellectual property researcher, book editor/contributor, owner & operator of a horse transportation business.

Kimberly Brown has appeared on national television and international radio shows multiple times in the past three years.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Managing Partner, Horse Capital Productions, LLC, Lexington, Kentucky --2008 - present

Responsible for the design, development, marketing, sponsorship acquisition, strategic alliance formation and full implementation of the largest fan event during an equestrian sporting competition in the United States, the International Equestrian Festival.

Sponsorships and strategic alliances include companies from Fortune's Top 35 Private Companies, such as CARGILL, national media partnerships/sponsorships with the HRTV television network, celebrity movie event with DISNEY, and local participation from company brands including The UPS STORE and LOWES. Attendees include industry enthusiasts from more than 20 countries, with performers/exhibitors from the U.S., Europe, Australia and the Asia.

Additional projects:

• e-commerce -- Launching and managing the first e-commerce project in Kentucky designed to provide online tickets for horse farm tours and agri-tourism
• documentary for television -- Underwriting a documentary titled "Beyond the Stone Fences"

Work locations have included the home base of Kentucky, the west coast (U.S.) and Europe.

Equine Business Consultant, Lexington, Kentucky -- January 2004 to present

Providing business and technology consulting for the multi-breed horse industry such as: knowledge management techniques, website strategy & implementation, business process assessment, process redesign, executive-level presentation development, and special events planning & production

Creator of UnbridledNews.com, an online equine news forum featuring equine business, equine research and related topics

Keynote presentations include "Horses as a Factor in Local Development" for the 2007 National Equine Economic Summit where Senator Elizabeth Dole gave the opening welcome.

Working in conjunction with RooSites for web development. Projects include the initial website for the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) and the Race For Education www.racingscholarships.com

Successfully planned, organized and executed the largest equine breeding rites auction ever held, raising over $2 Million in one evening for The Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP).

Graduate work towards a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky (UK), Lexington

Work in 2006 includes being a guest speaker at the Kentucky Economic Association’s annual meeting, co-teaching AEC 300, “Equine Markets,” UK’s first non-animal science equine course, co-authoring a paper on economic clusters in the horse industry, participating in a U.S. Homeland Security workshop to assist in the development of training programs in equine bio-security, and being a guest speaker to an audience of Federal Congressional Staff Members.

Research interests include Economic Clusters and Animal Welfare Economics

Kimberly Brown represented The University of Kentucky Equine Initiative.

President's Assistant, WinStar Farm, Lexington, Kentucky -- October 2002 to January 2004

Projects included: marketing strategy implementation, broodmare and racehorse information management, developing efficiencies for decision making, website management, and internal data research

Management Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 100% travel, based in Charlotte, NC -- March 2001 to October 2003 (includes Thoroughbred industry sabbatical with WinStar Farm in Lexington, KY)

Helped clients pursue and implement key strategic, process and management technology initiatives designed to enhance growth, profitability and competitiveness

Projects varied in size from 3 to 150 team members, covered multiple industries & countries, involved Fortune 500 clients and ranged in millions of dollars per project.

Responsibilities varied per project, such as: formulating sales proposals, management of add-on sales, conducting workshops, conducting initial needs analysis, designing solutions, developing & programming applications (SQR, PeopleSoft), budget forecasting & management, corporate liaison and quality assurance

Project Manager & Researcher, Cyberlaw and e-Commerce College Textbook, McGraw-Hill Publishing & David Baumer, Ph.D., J.D. and J.C. Poindexter, Ph.D., Raleigh, NC -- July 1999 to December 2000

Edited, designed, researched and helped produce the preliminary edition of the e-Commerce law textbook and for presentation to major publishers

e-Business Consultant, Venture Capital, Raleigh, NC. -- May 2000 to August 2000

Contract work: Conducted strategic relevance analyses, created logical and comparable connections between e-commerce, Information Technology, and Marketing strategy and also provided a clear picture of cause-and-effect relationships between marketing efforts and sales results PSIA Certified

Ski Instructor at Aspen Ski Resort, Aspen, Colorado -- full time 1995 to 1997

Instructed children ages 3-10 with Attention Deficit Disorder (25% of teaching time) and instructed Spanish and Portuguese speaking children (75% of teaching time)

Owner/ Operator of a commercial equine transportation small business, based in Cary, NC -- 1988-1995

Self-started entrepreneurial venture that specialized in transporting thoroughbreds and show horses anywhere from Delaware to Florida and included three to four routes per month

PUBLICATIONS

• Brown, Kimberly E. "Leading the race: Central Kentucky equine medicine spurs research breakthroughs." Business Lexington. Nov. 17, 2006.
• Garkovich, Lori, Kimberly Brown, Julie Zimmerman. "Conceptualizing the Kentucky Horse Industry as an Economic Cluster." 2006.
• Baumer & Poindexter. Cyberlaw and E-Commerce. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. -- Contributed to research and production of the book. The acknowledgement states, "Kimberly Eilers [Brown] worked with us from the start, believed in the project, and really mothered this project until it was able to spread its wings."

Quoted or research cited:

• Mangus, Pam Mitchell. "The equine equation." Business Lexington. Oct. 20, 2006.
• Guynn, Jessica. "Treatment works just as well on horses as people. Cooling therapy can reduce swelling, boost circulation for a quicker recovery." San Francisco Chronicle. July 28, 2006

EDUCATION

In progress: Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (expected graduation in May 2009)
MBA*, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC --December 2000
B.S. Business Management/ Finance, Spanish Minor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC -- Cum Laude Honors
Study Abroad at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico -- GPA 4.0 (Study abroad program)
Study Abroad at the Centro de Estudios Para Extranjeros, Cuernavaca, Mexico -- GPA 4.0 (Study abroad program)

SKILLS AND PROJECTS

Computer Skills: ERP system functional knowledge: PeopleSoft (including SQR and SQL programming languages)
Web development: Adobe Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks
Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project

Language Skills: Spanish (proficient)
Goal to learn French or Italian and Japanese

MBA Projects: Corporate projects included personal interaction with company executives and upper management.

Initial web site design for NC State's cyberlaw center website and Dr. David Baumer. Activities performed included designing & creating original web site architecture, creating templates for future site expansion, and developing all graphic designs.

Strategic Analysis for DataFlux, a database cleansing company that created award winning artificial intelligence. Dataflux was acquired by SAS (1999)

Marketing Analysis for ADtranz, a former Daimler-Chrylser worldwide rail transportation company that was sold to Bombardier Inc. (1999) Business Plan Development for e-commerce start-up company (2000)

Leadership Analysis for Hunter Industries, an innovative leader in commercial irrigation systems (2000)

AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS, VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Volunteer for Pawsibilities Unleashed Pet Therapy (PUPT), a non-profit organization that provides Service Dogs for disabled adults and children, trains and certifies Therapy dogs to visit places like schools, hospitals, nursing homes and libraries. -- weekly since 2007
WinStar Award of Excellence -- 2004
Volunteer for the Race for Education, a non-profit scholarship foundation, Lexington, KY -- since 2002
400 + awards in Equestrian competitions -- to date
Volunteer kids' Karate instructor -- 1995 and 1996
Trained with U.S. Olympic Team Coach and Hall of Fame Inductee, Jessica Ransehousen, in Equestrian sports at a special training facility in Florida -- 1994
Trained with Canadian Junior Olympic Coach, Walter Zettl, in Equestrian sports -- 1989 and 1990