Benjamin H. Griswold IV is senior partner and chairman of Brown Advisory, an asset management and strategic advisory firm based in Baltimore.
Griswold became a partner of Alex. Brown & Sons in 1972, was elected vice chairman of the board and director in 1984, and became chairman of the board in 1987. Upon the acquisition of Alex. Brown & Sons by Bankers Trust New York Corporation in 1997, he became senior chairman of BT Alex. Brown, and upon the acquisition of Bankers Trust by Deutsche Bank in 1999, he became senior chairman of Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, the predecessor of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. Griswold retired from Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in February 2005.
Griswold graduated from Princeton University in 1962 and served as an artillery officer in the U.S. 7th Army in Germany before receiving an MBA from Harvard in 1967.
Griswold has been active on a number of corporate and nonprofit boards. He served a six-year term as a director of the New York Stock Exchange and is a member of the boards of directors of The Black & Decker Corporation, Flowers Foods, Baltimore Life Insurance Company, Signal Hill Capital, Medicity, Inc. and W. P. Carey & Co. LLC. He also serves on Deutsche Bank’s North Americas Client Advisory Board. He is a trustee of the Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Institute and chairs the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s endowment board. He is also a past chairman of the board of the United Way of Central Maryland.
