Name: Philip D. Brown
Age: 49
Position: President, the RAMP Group LLC
First job: Dairy Queen sales in St. Louis
Favorite pastimes: Reading, golf, travel

Ramping up a new business

After many years in the beverage industry Philip D. Brown is leading the RAMP Group LLC, a new public relations, advertising and marketing company based in Kailua.

"Our target clients are the mainland-based food products," Brown said.

RAMP is an acronym for Resource for Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations. The company will operate in Hawaii, the Pacific region and the mainland.

Brown is the former president of Eagle Distributors Inc., a locally owned beverage wholesaler. He was in top management jobs with Eagle Distributors for nine years.

Brown has more than 30 years of experience in the beer and beverage industry which includes management, planning, analysis, finance, sales and marketing.

He earned a bachelor's degree in English at San Diego State University and spent four years in the Marine Corps.

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By Jerry Tune, Star-Bulletin