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Adrienne M. Penta is a senior vice president at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in Boston

Benjamin Persofsky is Executive Director of the BBH Center for Family Business, which counsels some of the largest business-owning families in the world on the unique issues that occur at the intersection of owners’ businesses, their families and their wealth. These topics include succession, governance and next generation owner development. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on those topics, as well as on innovative approaches to share redemption, capital allocation and dividend policy. Ben joined the firm in 2010.

Ben is on the executive and finance committees of the Philadelphia School Partnership and chairs its investment committee. He is also a volunteer pilot with Angel Flight East. Ben is a graduate of Lafayette College and attended the University of Oxford as a visiting student concentrating on research in organizational behavior and developmental economics.