Vice-President, Vice-Chairman of the Board, and Secretary
Ivar Browne is Vice President of Business Affairs and Financial Secretary for Lake Rawlings, and a former officer of SYSTRON Corporation, a management consulting firm, located in Hampton, VA. A retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, Ivar has extensive experience in planning, programming and policy development at key organizational levels and in-dept expertise managing material, financial, and personnel resources, including 12 years of executive leadership positions in logistics and security assistance programs at various Air Force installations in the continental United States and Brazil.
During his military career, Ivar also served as visiting lecturer on international logistics and security assistance planning at the Graduate School of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. While at SYSTRON Corporation, he utilized his military background to design, develop, coordinate, and conduct numerous workshops, seminars, and conferences. These programs included seminars in public relations, small (minority) business development and retirement seminars, workshops for the National Technical Association, Federal Highway Administration, and potential state lottery vendors as well as training vehicles for low to moderate income housing developments and Federal and State employees.
Ivar Browne's academic background includes an MBA in corporate policy and labor relations from Columbia University, graduate study in history at DePauw University, and a B.A. in history from Lincoln University (Pa.). He is a graduate of the National Defense University's National Security Management Course, the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management, and the Air Force Command and Staff College. He also completed numerous advanced Department of Defense and Air Force logistics courses.
Ivar has twice been president of the Tidewater Chapter of the distinguished Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. (1986 and 1990) and is currently Secretary of the Board of Directors of Les Hommes Civic and Social Club in Hampton, VA. He is a 50-Year member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. where he served as President of the Zeta Lambda Chapter in Newport News, VA (1992-95), District Director of Virginia (1999-2003), and is currently the Senior Advisor to the Eastern Region Vice-President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Other Affiliations include life memberships in the Air Force Association, Military Officers Association of America, and the Lincoln University Alumni Association.