Rod Brown

Vice President of Family Services

Rod Brown was named vice president of Family Services for Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota in September 2008. He is responsible for strategic management and planning for key initiatives related to services with children, youth and families. Those services include housing, crisis shelters and nurseries, adoption and pregnancy counseling, youth services, financial counseling, mental health counseling, Lifeworks Employee Resource, and refugee and employment services.

Rod is committed to social justice and connecting/honoring with the human spirit to make a difference. His work at LSS allows him to connect his life’s work with his deeply held personal values. “I am passionate that we serve others in dignity; that the ways we interact with people are both graceful and efficient and have a beneficial impact on their lives. We are here to enable independence and interdependence.”

Raised in St. Paul, Rod received his Bachelor’s in Business Administration and recently received the Distinguished Alumni Humanitarian Award from Minnesota State University – Mankato, and has earned professional certifications from the Minnesota Council on Quality and the International Institute of Management Consultants. Brown brings over 30 years of professional experience in business and social service to his role at LSS. Most recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Compatible Technology International in St. Paul and was President and Chief Executive Officer at the SADAKA Technology Group until 2007. Prior to that, he held several senior management positions at Xerox Corporation, Oracle (PeopleSoft), and others.

Rod and his wife, Floriane, are co-founders of Nibakure Children’s Village in Rwanda, designed to offer a wide range of care and education to orphaned children in Floriane’s native country. He currently serves on the Greater MN Housing Fund (GMHF) Board and the Social Behavior Sciences Advisory Board at Minnesota State University and has served on the boards of Zenon Dance Company, The Institute on Black Chemical Abuse (IBCA) and the Minneapolis YMCA where he served for three years as chairperson. Rod and Floriane live in Hudson, Wisconsin and are the parents of two grown children.

To contact Rod:
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
2485 Como Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55108
Phone: 651.642.5990