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Martin Allen Brown, Esq., Managing Member
As the founder of Zhemian Ventures, LLC, Martin Allen Brown serves as the company's managing member. He oversees the strategic planning, management and performance of all of Zhemian Ventures professional services. His responsibilities also include business development and establishing international acquisitions, affiliation and alliances. Mr. Brown oversees service delivery, international strategic development and operational management.
Prior to founding Zhemian Ventures, LLC in 2006, Mr. Brown served as managing attorney for Martin A. Brown, P.C. where his legal practice entailed providing legal advice and services in the areas of venture capital and private equity transactions, Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering and SEC/NASD compliance, transactional matters for both domestic and foreign corporations, as well as complex business and commercial litigation. From 2000-2002, Mr. Brown served as General Counsel for World Service Corporation-an international e-commerce business support company.
Mr. Brown is an appointed (by Mayor Kathy Taylor) member of the City of Tulsa's Economic Development Commission. Mr. Brown also serves as Administrative Assistant to the Independent Auditor in the matter of Johnson et al., v. City of Tulsa, Case No.: 94-C-39-TCK-FHM (N.D.Okla.). Mr. Brown previously served as the Economic Development Chair for the Tulsa Metropolitan Urban League's Young Professionals. Mr. Brown was also the recipient of the TU Law Alumni Association's Outstanding Committee Chair award in 2004 and Outstanding Alumnus in 2005.
Education
Mr. Brown has both his B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in American History from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. In graduate school, Mr. Brown published "Spoils of the Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy in Ghana" which focused on the development of Africa in the wake of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Mr. Brown is also a graduate of The University of Tulsa College of Law with a Juris Doctorate and a Certificate in International and Comparative Law and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma Graduate School of Successful Trial Advocacy. Mr. Brown also studied international corporate law and Project Finance at the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mr. Brown's financial background focused predominantly on issues of corporate taxation, as well as the principles of financial management (i.e. risk v. return); valuation (i.e. future value, compound interest, present value of an annuity, present value of variable cash flows, and present value of perpetuities); valuation of bonds, preferred stock and common stock; measuring risk and return with CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model), capital budgeting methodology, and with the net income (NI) approach vs. net operating income (NOI) approach to capital structuring; and basics of international finance.
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