Michael J. Brown co-founded Euronet in 1994 in Budapest, Hungary, by installing the first independent, non-bank-owned ATM network in Central Europe, and has served as its Chief Executive Officer ever since and as a director since the company's December 1996 incorporation. He also serves as Chairman of the Board and, since December 2014, as President, overseeing business strategy, financial performance and growth across all markets. Before Euronet, he founded Innovative Software (merged with Informix in 1988, where he served as President and COO) and was a founding investor of Visual Tools, and he holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Missouri.