<P> Brown started out working as a senior legislative assistant on the staff of former Nevada Senator Chic Hecht . He spent five years in Washington, D.C. overseeing all of Hecht's U.S. Senate Banking and Energy Committee assignments in the 1980s . After 1989, he started and operated his own company called The Carrara Group, a government affairs and public relations company which was later acquired by Burson - Marsteller, the world's largest public relations firm . Following the acquisition he got a job as the Executive Vice President of corporate and government relations and marketing for The Howard Hughes Corporation and from 1994 to 1999, worked for the company, that is also an affiliate of The Rouse Company . Yet, by 1999 Brown began to transition into the world of Las Vegas casinos . He served as an Executive Vice President of government relations and corporate communications for Station Casinos, Inc. from 1999 to 2000 . </P> <P> Brown was the founder and owner of Brown & Partners in 2000, which merged with R&R Partners in 2004 . The merger helped bring a $226 million in combined capital in 2005, when the merger became effective . R&R Partners is considered Nevada's largest public affairs, public relations and full - service advertising agency . After the merger Brown served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from 2004 to 2007 . </P> <P> The company R&R Partners, is best known for creating the advertising campaign slogan "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" for the City of Las Vegas . Its "What happens here" slogan is not new, see What happens on tour, stays on tour, yet the campaign brought Las Vegas a record - breaking 37.4 million visitors in 2004 . Since then the phrase has been used by many celebrities . Gambling fan Ben Affleck used it on Saturday Night Live . Billy Crystal used it to close the 2004 Oscars . It has been a clue on Wheel of Fortune . In 2004 on The Tonight Show when Jay Leno asked Laura Bush whether she had gambled or had seen a Chippendales show while visiting the Las Vegas Strip, the then First Lady got a big hand by replying, "Jay, what happened in Vegas, stays in Vegas ." In later years the phrase was used as the title for a 2008 movie' What Happens in Vegas' starring Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher . It has also been used in the 2009 blockbuster hit The Hangover . </P> <Ul> <Li> Medicor Ltd: Brown was also involved in Medicor Ltd. as its director in 2003 . The company was founded in 1999 and was based in Las Vegas, Nevada . Medicor, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of breast implants and other implants primarily for the aesthetic, plastic, and reconstructive surgery markets worldwide . On June 29, 2007, MediCor Ltd, along with its affiliates, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware . </Li> <Li> Service1 st Bank of Nevada: He was a founder of Service1 st Bank of Nevada . He has been a director of Service1st Bank of Nevada since January 2007 . Brown serves as a Director of Service1st . The bank's capital was valued at the end of the first quarter of 2010 around $21 million and later bought by Western Liberty Bancorp and Forbes Lister Jason N. Ader the same year . </Li> <Li> YourBuyer Worldwide, Inc.: Brown served as the President of YourBuyer Worldwide, Inc., a global purchasing company . </Li> </Ul>

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