Raymond A. "Chip" Mason is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Baltimore

Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...

-based investment firm Legg Mason

Legg Mason

Legg Mason, Inc. is an American-based global investment management firm with a focus on asset management. The company’s business is divided in two divisions: Americas and International...

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He founded the brokerage company at age 25, and went public in 1974.

The Mason School of Business

Mason School of Business

The Mason School of Business is the business school at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. The school, named after alumni and founder of Legg Mason, Raymond A. "Chip" Mason, in 2005, was ranked in the top 20 MBA programs in 2007 and the top 10 undergraduate programs among public universities...

 at the College of William & Mary in Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

 was named after Mason, an alumnus of the institution, in 2005.

Mason has chaired the Securities Industry Association

Securities Industry Association

The Securities Industry Association was an association of firms and people who handle securities . In 2006 it merged with the Bond Market Association to form the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association....

, the board of governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers, the United Way of Central Maryland Campaign, the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education and the Greater Baltimore Committee, as well as a past board member of the Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore Museum of Art

The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, was founded in 1914. Built in the Roman Temple style, the Museum is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 90,000 works...

 and the US National Aquarium

National Aquarium

There are two institutions called National Aquarium in the United States:* the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C.* the National Aquarium in BaltimoreThere is a National Aquarium in Australia* the National Zoo & Aquarium in Canberra...

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