E.C. Browne was born and raised in Detroit Michigan. In 2002 after graduating from high school he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as an Infantryman. From 2003 to 2009, E deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan multiple times filling billets ranging from fire team leader to platoon sergeant. Following his time in the Marines, he worked as a mobile defense and interagency security contractor in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2012. In 2013 he founded OAF Nation Inc, a GWOT veteran lifestyle brand and news platform.
In 2017, E returned to academia after being accepted to Harvard Business School. In addition to his studies at HBS, E studied negotiation at Harvard Law School and behavioral economics at Yale School of Management before graduating from Harvard Business School in 2019. In addition to this he holds a blockchain certification from IBM.