Milo M. Benningfield, Principal
Milo is the founding principal of Benningfield Financial Advisors. A licensed attorney as well as investment adviser, he has significant expertise handling a broad range of complex investment and planning issues, including those that accompany entrepreneurial ventures, trust management, and charitable transfers.
He is also particularly interested in how individuals can help resolve the inherent tension between capitalism and sustainable economic growth through more effective management of their investment capital, human capital, and charitable-giving strategies.
Originally from Texas, Milo graduated from Rice University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and subsequently earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the California and Massachusetts State Bars and holds the CFP® designation. Before founding BFA, he worked as a corporate-strategy consultant in Massachusetts and practiced law for over a decade in California.
Milo is regularly quoted by the financial press on investing and personal-finance issues in such publications as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and Wealth Manager. He also enjoys writing about such issues in BFA’s blog and newsletter.
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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