About

Howard Brod Brownstein

Howard Brod Brownstein serves as Board Chair of Community Council Health Systems (CCHS).  He is both a nationally-known turnaround and crisis management professional, as well as a very experienced board member and leader, including of organizations that provide healthcare-related services.  He is the President of The Brownstein Corporation, which provides turnaround management and advisory services to companies and their stakeholders, as well as M&A services, fiduciary services, and litigation consulting. 

Mr. Brownstein regularly serves as an independent corporate board member for publicly-held and privately-owned companies, as well as large nonprofits.  He has been named “Directorship Certified” and a “Board Leadership Fellow” by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and served as Board Chair and President of its Philadelphia Chapter.  He has been named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, which includes only one percent of lawyers admitted to practice in any state.  He has served as a board chair, and also chaired board Audit, Risk, Nominating and Strategic Planning/Risk Assessment committees, and is a Qualified Financial Expert (QFE) for Sarbanes-Oxley purposes. 

Among Mr. Brownstein’s board’s roles are current service on the board of Merakey, a large nonprofit provider of education and human services with more than 10,000 employees in several states.  He also served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Philanthropic Trust, then the largest independent provider of donor-advised funds, and as Board Chair of JEVS Human Services, a United Way agency. 

Mr. Brownstein has also served on the boards of professional associations, and is a frequent speaker at their programs.  He also regularly guest-teaches at the Wharton School, Harvard Business and Law Schools, and other leading universities.  He has published over 130 articles, textbook chapters and e-books, and serves as a contributing editor and on editorial boards of professional publications. 

Howard Brownstein is a graduate of Harvard Law and Business Schools, and of the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained B.S. and B.A. degrees from the Wharton School and the College of Arts and Sciences.  He is admitted to the bars of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Florida, but does not actively practice law.  Mr. Brownstein also served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force Medical Service Corps.