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., W.P. Carey Inc and Flowers Foods (lead director). He is currently chairman emeritus of W.P. Carey Inc. and trustee emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University.
Education
- Harvard University, MBA
- Princeton University
Community Involvement
- Former Chair, Alex. Brown & Sons Inc.
- Co-Chair, B&O Railroad 200th Anniversary Campaign
- Former Director, Baltimore Life Companies
- Former Trustee, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Former Chair, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Endowment Board
- Board Member, Brown Advisory International Advisory Board
- Chairman Emeritus, Brown Investment Advisory & Trust Company
- Former Chair, Deutsche Bank Securities
- Former Director, Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO)
- Former Trustee, Gilman School
- Board and Committee Member, Gilman School
- Advisory Board, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
- Committee Member, Ladew Topiary Gardens-Investment Committee
- Board Member, Princeton University Center for Economic Policy Studies
- Former Board Member, Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
- Trustee Emeritus, The Johns Hopkins University
- Former Chair, United Way of Central Maryland
- Former Director and Non-Executive Chairman, W.P. Carey Inc. (NYSE: WPC)
- Chairman Emeritus, W.P. Carey, Inc.
- Former Trustee, Walter's Art Gallery