Ben is a partner of Brown Advisory and serves as a senior advisor. He is a former director of Brown Advisory Incorporated, where he served as chair of the investment committee, and the chair of Brown Investment Advisory & Trust Company. Ben graduated from Princeton University and served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army before receiving his MBA from Harvard. He joined Alex. Brown & Sons and became a partner of the firm in 1972, was elected director and vice chair of the board in 1984, and became chair of the board in 1987. Ben was a former director of the New York Stock Exchange, Stanley Black & Decker Inc., and W.P. Carey Inc. He is currently a member of Flowers Foods (lead director) and chairman emeritus of W.P. Carey Inc. He is trustee emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University.
Education
- Harvard University, MBA
- Princeton University
Community Involvement
- Chairman Emeritus – Brown Investment Advisory & Trust Company
- Board Member – Brown Advisory International Advisory Board
- Lead Director – Flowers Foods, Inc.
- Chairman Emeritus – W.P. Carey, Inc.
- Dean’s Advisory Committee – Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
- Former Chairman – Alex. Brown & Sons Inc.
- Former Senior Chairman – Deutsche Bank Securities
- Former Chairman – Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Endowment Board
- Former Chairman – United Way of Central Maryland
- Former Board Member – Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
- Former Director and Non-Executive Chairman – W.P. Carey, Inc.
- Former Director – Baltimore Life Companies
- Trustee Emeritus – Johns Hopkins University
- Former Trustee – Gilman School
- Former Trustee –Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Former Trustee – Walter’s Art Gallery
