Since joining in 1999, Dick Brown has provided advisory services in strategic and investment planning and structuring multi-asset class portfolios. He is also part of the Open-End Fund team, which conducts quarterly reviews of core, value-added, and specialty funds.​

Before Townsend, he was a Senior Consultant at Eileen Byrne & Associates, a real estate consulting firm that merged with Townsend in 1998.​

Dick is a member of NCREIF, PREA, The Counselors of Real Estate, and The Institute of Real Estate Management, and holds the CRE and CPM designations