Mike is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Brown Advisory serving alongside Logie Fitzwilliams. Mike served as CEO of Brown Advisory from June 1998—when the firm became private and independent—until the leadership transition to Co-CEOs in January 2025. Brown Advisory is an investment management and strategic advisory firm servicing private clients, endowments, foundations and institutional clients throughout the United States and across the globe.
Mike’s personal community commitment includes his roles as Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and as Emeritus Trustee of both Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins University. He also served as Chair of the Board of Managers of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab from 2015 – 2021 and continues as a member of the Principal Professional Staff.
Mike is also a member of the board of directors for the Greater Baltimore Committee, Business Executives for National Security, the Maryland Jockey Club, Nature Sacred, Blackbird Labs (steering board), and National Park Foundation as well as Trustee of The Brookings Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mike also serves on the board of directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (SWK) and on the boards of directors of four private companies, Tate Engineering Services, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., Baltimore Orioles (advisory board), and 1251 Capital Group, Inc.
Mike received a B.A. and M.A. from Emory University in 1979, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received a J.D. from The University of Virginia School of Law in 1982.
