Milo M. Benningfield, Principal
Milo is the founding principal of Benningfield Financial Advisors. He graduated from Rice University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and subsequently earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Before founding BFA, he practiced law for over a decade in California and worked as a corporate-strategy consultant with Monitor Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He has been widely quoted by the financial press on investment and planning issues in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Newsweek, Wealth Manager, Financial Advisor and Investment News. He speaks regularly on such issues before professional groups and is a member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors and the Financial Planning Association.

Milo is admitted to the California and Massachusetts bars and is a member of the American Bar Association and the estate-planning section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He also holds the CFP® credential and earned a graduate certificate, with distinction, from the UC Berkeley Personal Financial Planning Program.

He and his wife live in San Francisco with their two sons.

Gilden Chung, Operations Manager
Gilden is the Operations Manager at Benningfield Financial Advisors and is responsible for a variety of internal operations, investment research, implementing transactions, and helping clients with service requests.

Gilden earned a B.S. in Biology, graduating cum laude, and a M.A. in Education at San Francisco State University. Before coming to BFA, he taught high school science for the San Francisco Unified School District. He then worked for a decade with the Educational Opportunity Program at San Francisco State University, where he developed programs for, mentored, and instructed students from low income families who had never before sent a child to college.

He is a lifelong resident of the Bay Area and lives in San Francisco.


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