About David Brown
A native of California, David has lived in the SY Valley since 1991, raising a family, working as a mortgage lender, and a lifelong community volunteer. Serving the community as an active Rotary member of 30 years, volunteer for Boy Scouts for 25 years, charter member of the SYV YMCA, coaching and being an umpire for Pony Baseball for 12 years, working as a 4H Leader for 5 years, Viking Charities of Solvang, Pirate Football Boosters, multi-gallon blood donor, Meals on Wheels, and Old Mission Santa Inez are just a few examples of his community engagement and service.
His first career was in farming in the Central Valley near Porterville, California. However, most of his business career is in finance and operations for real estate, investment banking, technology, and medical services. David has served the California Superior Court as a court appointed receiver for business and admitted as an expert witness.
David has a bachelor’s degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in Agri-business management and an MBA degree from Pepperdine.
David is a California licensed real estate broker, licensed mortgage loan officer and private pilot. Over the past decades, David has started and run several business ventures including owner of Healthy DM, a medical product and service aggregator for physicians and clinics and a full-service mortgage banking company for HighTechLending as branch manager, all operating from his downtown Solvang office since 2008.
David is married to my beautiful wife, Karen Brown, who is also a serial entrepreneur owning several Solvang businesses and is current director of Meals on Wheels for Atterdag at Home. The Brown’s are passionate about family and community.