Meet Michael Brown
Meet Michael Brown
Co-Founder of Weaver's Coffee & Tea
Michael Brown is a co-founder of Weaver's Coffee & Tea and Wild Card Roasters, bringing decades of experience in international retail development, franchise operations, licensing, technology, sourcing, manufacturing, and global business strategy. Before co-founding Weaver's Coffee & Tea, Michael served as Vice President, International Retail Business Development Worldwide at Warner Bros. Consumer Products, where he managed the development and opening of 150 retail stores in 18 countries in eight years. That experience gave him a deep understanding of how to scale a consumer brand across markets while maintaining consistent operations, brand standards, and customer experience.
Building Retail Businesses Around the World
At Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Michael directed international retail activities across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. His work included developing retail and franchise business models, evaluating markets, working with international partners, managing licensing relationships, and building the systems needed to support growth across multiple countries. Opening 150 stores in 18 countries required disciplined execution across site development, franchise relationships, technology, training, sourcing, manufacturing, and operations.
Michael also spent more than a decade living and working in Hong Kong and Japan, where he developed and implemented international retail and franchise business models for global brands. Working across different countries gave him firsthand experience in adapting businesses to local markets while maintaining the standards and consistency of a global brand. His experience spans franchise development, retail operations, consumer products licensing, sourcing and manufacturing, technology, and international business development.
Building Weaver's Coffee & Tea
In 2007, Michael co-founded Weaver's Coffee & Tea with Master Coffee Roaster John Weaver, Renée Brown, and Bryce Inouye. The founders brought together complementary experience: John's decades of coffee roasting expertise and craftsmanship, Renée's work building the company's sales, marketing, ecommerce, product development, and operations, and Michael's background in international retail, franchising, technology, licensing, and scalable business systems.
At Weaver's Coffee & Tea and Wild Card Roasters, Michael has applied that experience across business development, retail and franchise strategy, technology, and operations. His focus is on the infrastructure behind growth—the operating standards, technology, supply chain, training, franchise structure, and systems required to expand a business while maintaining a consistent product, customer experience, and brand.
Building a Platform for Scale
Today, Michael is applying his international retail and franchise experience to the development of Weaver's Master Franchise business model. Having managed the development and opening of 150 stores across 18 countries, in 8 years. He understands what is required to turn a successful retail concept into a repeatable operating model, from franchise structure and partner selection to training, technology, supply chain, operating standards, and execution.
That experience is particularly relevant as Weaver's looks to grow across retail, CPG, wholesale, and direct-to-consumer ecommerce. Michael's focus is on building the systems and infrastructure that allow those channels to work together and scale efficiently while protecting the quality, consistency, and customer experience associated with Weaver's Coffee & Tea.
For Weaver's, the opportunity is to combine more than four decades of coffee expertise with a premium brand and the operating discipline needed to grow across markets and channels. Michael's role is to help build the structure that makes that growth repeatable and scalable.