He oversees all content for MLC’s website, the Manufacturing Leadership Summit, the Manufacturing Leadership Journal, the Manufacturing Leadership Council, and the ML Awards program. In his nearly four-decade career, Brousell has served in numerous leadership positions in companies large and small. In the early 1990s, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Datamation Magazine, which was the standard of excellence in the IT magazine field for many years. In the mid to late 1990s, he served as Vice President and Editorial Director at Sentry Publishing Co., in charge of that firm’s Software Magazine, Client-Server Computing Magazine and Sentry Market Research publications. In 1997, he became Vice President of Strategy at Softbank Comdex, the organizer of the huge Comdex technology trade show and conference. In 1998, Brousell was named Editor-in-Chief of Managing Automation Magazine, part of Thomas Publishing Co. of New York. He later became Vice President & Editorial Director of Managing Automation Media, where he co-founded the Manufacturing Leadership Council in 2008.

Tate helped develop and launch the Manufacturing Leadership Council and is directly involved in all content, research projects, events, online materials, and Manufacturing Leadership Journal activities. He also directs the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Board of Governors and the Council’s annual member-driven Critical Issues Agenda program.

Previous roles include founding Executive Editor of Information Strategy Magazine for The Economist Group in London, Vice President of Communications for global technology consortium X/Open, and International Editor at the computer industry’s bible, Datamation Magazine.

He has also won a number of prestigious business journalism and editorial awards, including the U.S. Jesse H. Neal Editorial Excellence Award for Outstanding Journalism.