FOUNDER HISTORY
After a quick stint working as a commodity buyer through the Chicago Board of Trade, our founder quickly found himself moving through the ranks of one of the largest oil companies in North America. His positions at the Sun Oil Company brought him in contact with some of the most influential people and some of the most leading edge technology available to any industry. This valuable combination secured him a position as Director of IT for a mid-sized oil refinery in Southern Illinois. Working with the Castle Energy Corporation (Radnor, PA) and Metallgesellschaft A.G. (Frankfurt, Germany), Donald Browning spearheaded and managed refinery modernization projects exceeding $100M annually.
With a significant emphasis on Disaster Planning and Business Contingency Planning, Donald Browning helped to organize refinery safety training, OSHA compliance reviews and Disaster Recovery Testing procedures for both Sun Refining & Marketing (Toledo, OH) and Indian Refining (Lawrenceville, IL). His experience as a corporate officer gave him an in-depth understanding of the relationship between functional requirements, technical solutions and the people who bring it together.
After controlling interests of the southern Illinois refinery were acquired by MG Refining and Marketing Inc. in 1992, Donald Browning left the refinery and formed Cypress Information Systems to provide information technology and business consulting services for Fortune 100 companies, government entities and smaller organizations.
COMPANY HISTORY
After providing consulting services for nearly 10 years, Cypress Information Systems had expanded into Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Florida with a growing customer base throughout the Midwest and East Coast. This rapid expansion led to a company reorganization in 2002 forming Adon Inc.
Through partnerships with Siemens Business Services and IBM, Adon Inc. expanded their service offerings to include the design and development of large data center facilities. With the need for specialized construction personnel, Adon Inc. pursued partnerships with various construction organizations throughout North Carolina and Ohio. As these partnerships evolved, Adon Inc. began to realize the value that could be obtained by bringing these construction services into the same management structure as other Adon service offerings. With that goal, Donald Browning Holdings LLC was formed as an effective way to coordinate these diverse efforts into a single organizational structure.
CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS
- IBM PC Company
- IBM Global Services
- Siemens Business Services
- Conseco Inc.
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- New York State Office for Technology
- Atlas Roofing
- Cisco
- Compuware
