[Executive Producer/Mentor]
James Brown, also known as “JB” is the host of CBS Sports The NFL Today along with analysts Dan Marino, Shannon Sharpe, Boomer Esiason, and Bill Cowher. Additionally, Brown also hosts Showtime’s Inside The NFL alongside analysts Phil Simms, Cris Collinsworth and Warren Sapp. Inside The NFL, the award-winning program debuted in 2008 on SHOWTIME. In its first year on SHOWTIME, INSIDE THE NFL won the Sports Emmy® Award for Outstanding Studio Show-Weekly.
Brown graduated from Harvard with a degree in American Government. A standout on the basketball court, he received All-Ivy League honors in his last three seasons at Harvard University and captained the team in his senior year. He was selected as a fourth-round draft pick by the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and a seventh-round pick by the Denver Nuggets. In 1996, Brown was inducted into the Harvard Hall of Fame.
He is a co-founder and principal of the Brown Technology Group, a certified minority owned and operated information technology company, and is a founding partner of the Washington Nationals. He is also actively involved in the JTwo project development process in addition to handling Executive Producer duties on JTwo’s award winning feature, For Aaron: The Documentary.”
