Stuart Brown
TNC Global Board Member and Chair of TNC's Trustee Council
Telluride, Colorado

Stuart Brown TNC Global Board Member and Chair of TNC's Trustee Council © TNC
Areas of Expertise
Investment Management, Governance and Connecting People to Nature
Board Term
February 2025 - October 2034Biography
Stuart Brown is a retired Director at his family's distilling business, Brown-Forman Corporation, the Investment Manager at Typha Partners, LLC, and Director & Treasurer at W. L. Lyons Brown Charitable Foundation. Stuart is a graduate of the University of Georgia and received his MBA from Vanderbilt University.
Stuart serves as the Chair of The Nature Conservancy’s Trustee Council. He and his wife Joanna have been conservation partners with The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, where Stuart served as chair, Kentucky, Alaska, Massachusetts, the Caribbean, and Africa. Joanna is a member of the TNC Africa Council and manages BEADWorks Kenya for TNC's partner The Northern Rangelands Trust.
Originally from Louisville, KY, Stuart has lived in Telluride, CO the past 26 years where he enjoys skiing, hiking, biking, fly fishing, river rafting, camping, and basically anything that involves getting outside in beautiful Colorado.