Howard Brown is Senior Mainframe Executive at MooodyCow IT Consultancy, where he helps organisations address mainframe transformation, specialist skills, knowledge retention and workforce development. He has held senior leadership roles across the mainframe industry, including responsibility for consulting services, professional services growth, customer delivery and strategic partner development. His experience spans infrastructure, application modernisation, operational resilience, talent strategy and the development of new service propositions. Howard is particularly focused on the challenge of preserving critical mainframe knowledge as experienced practitioners retire, while creating credible career pathways for the next generation. He advocates combining experienced specialists, emerging talent and responsible use of AI to build sustainable customer capability. He is also the author of previous industry thought leadership on the mainframe talent shortage and regularly works with customers, vendors and partners to turn workforce risk into practical transformation opportunities.
Email: howard.brown@mooodycow.com