Mr. Dunn is a Senior Advisor for Brown Advisory, a firm that invests and provides strategic advice and services for individuals and institutions. Prior to joining Brown Advisory in 2007, Mr. Dunn was an entrepreneur. He started his professional career in 1977 as a corporate attorney with the law firm of Venable, Baetjer & Howard. He left Venable in 1981 to join the management team of the Kirk Stieff Company, a manufacturer of prestige precious metal gifts and tableware products. As President, Mr. Dunn led a turn-around followed by a period of sustained growth culminating in the firm’s successful sale in 1991 to the Lenox Division of Brown Forman. Mr. Dunn left corporate opportunities at Lenox to co-found MIRCON, Inc. (d.b.a. CONNOR) an environmental services firm proving a broad range of compliance related services to multi-family property owners and managers throughout the U.S. CONNOR is the largest lead paint testing company in the U.S. Mr. Dunn remains chairman of the firm. Mr. Dunn took a leave of absence from CONNOR to manage a start-up in Europe for TESSCO Technologies, a distributor of a wide range of equipment and products for the wireless communications industry.
Mr. Dunn serves as Vice Chair of Citybizlist, Inc., an internet publishing company that provides the first source of local business news to executives and professionals in cities throughout the U.S. He also serves on the board of the J.J. Haines Corporation, the largest distributor of floor coverings in the U.S. Mr. Dunn serves on the Board of Trustees of Goucher College where he chairs the Budget and Finance Committee and serves on the Endowment and Executive Committees.
Mr. Dunn holds a B.A degree from Princeton University, a J.D from Georgetown University and an XMBA from Loyola College.
