Newfront Taps Brown from Uber as Chief Operating Officer

Newfront Insurance has named Michael Brown chief operating officer.

Brown joins Newfront from Uber, where he was responsible for Uber’s business across Southeast Asia and Australia.

Prior to Uber Brown, was at Twitter, where he was responsible for user growth, monetization, and public relations in Twitter’s priority markets outside the U.S. Brown was a senior manager of corporate development at Facebook before that.

Newfront is a retail insurance brokerage.