Asian Diver – March 2018

Wayne B. Brown is not only

Aggressor’s Chairman

and CEO, he also happens

to be an avid underwater

photographer with a passion

for sharks!

Shark Diving at Its Finest

UW360 interviewed Aggressor Fleet’s CEO, Wayne B. Brown, to find out

more about the fleet’s shark diving scene

Could you tell us a bit about yourself?

I grew up in a very small town in North Florida. Unsure of what

I wanted when I graduated high school in 1979, I joined the US

Air Force and trained as a medic working in the emergency

room at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. After four

years, I was sent back to school to train as a flight medic and

was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany for the next four years.

In 1987, I decided that I would get out of the military and move

back close to my hometown and find work there. I was hired by

Taco Bell to manage one store at first, and then the better part

of a large city. After two years, I was a bit frustrated with the

corporate red tape and decided to go into business with a Taco

Bell franchisee where we could have more control over how

we managed our stores and employees. He was unfortunately

killed a few years later. I continued to grow the business and

sold my 60 stores in 2006 to a private equity group.