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