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Carey Brown

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Phone: 678.904.9330
Toll Free: 800.837.0650

Carey Brown, Founder of The Benefit Company, is an Industrial Engineering graduate of Georgia Tech.  He served as a Military Policeman in the US Army and was stationed in Fort Gordon, GA. He has been a member of the Atlanta executive and employee benefits community since the late 1960s.

Carey has been/is active in numerous charitable, community, and social organizations including the Tommy Nobis Center Board, Buckhead Rotary Club Board, Literacy Action Board, Executive Committee of the Georgia State Golf Association, The GSGA Adaptive Golf program for the physically disabled who seek to play golf, the Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Board, Co-founder of the Cherokee Art Endowment Trust, Past President of Cherokee Town and Country Club, and Past President of the Georgia State Golf Foundation.  He is co-founder of the Cherokee Caddie Scholarship Foundation.

Carey has served as Chairman of the Georgia Tech Alexander Tharpe Fund Board, founder of the Diamond T Circle, and three terms on the Georgia Tech Alumni Board, including as President in 2004-2005, and the Georgia Tech Foundation Board.  He was President of the Student Body at Tech in 1967-68 and was named Outstanding GT Young Alumnus in 1974.

Carey was instrumental in establishing the Georgia State Golf Association Foundation.  Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded more than $4,000,000 in scholarships to GSGA member club employees and their children. Seventy-five scholarships were awarded during the 2021-22 academic year.  The GSGA recently created a special recognition award, The Carey H. Brown Award, acknowledging an outstanding volunteer’s dedication, service, and leadership.

At a recent Georgia Tech Gold & White Annual Gala, Carey received Tech’s highest Alumni Award, the Joseph M. Pettit Distinguished Service Award.

Carey and Sally were married in 1969 and are members of the Cathedral of St. Phillip. They reside in Paces Battle and have four granddaughters. They have two living children. Brent is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a degree in Industrial Management and an MBA from the Terry School at UGA, and Natalie Houk is a graduate of the College of Charleston.

Carey and Sally’s son, 1LT Tyler Hall Brown (Georgia Tech, IM ’01, HTS ’01), US Army Airborne Ranger, was killed in Iraq on September 14, 2004. Tyler served as Senior Class President while attending  Woodward Academy and President of the Student Body at Georgia Tech. Tyler was posthumously awarded the Georgia Tech Young Alumnus of the Year in 2016. The Student Center at Woodward Academy is named in Tyler’s honor; a scholarship (the largest of its kind) at Georgia Tech is endowed in his name; and the annual Outstanding ROTC cadets’ and midshipmen awards bear his name.

Please visit www.lttylerbrown.com to learn more about Tyler. Much has been done to honor Tyler by honoring others.

Charities & Volunteerism

  • Buckhead Rotary Club Board
  • Bobby Jones Golf Course Campaign Committee and Board of Directors
  • Georgia State Golf Association and Foundation Boards
  • Georgia Tech Alumni, Alexander-Tharpe, and Foundation Boards
  • Cherokee Art Endowment Trust and Caddie Scholarship Foundation Boards