George Ferris Jr., chairman of the board of Baltimore-based investment firm Ferris Baker Watts, died Monday, the company said. He was 81.
Ferris’ death was confirmed by company spokeswoman Robin Oegerle, who declined to provide details of his passing, pending notification of Ferris’ family.
A 50-year veteran of the investment banking industry, Ferris became chairman of the firm in 1988 when Ferris and Co., founded by his father in 1932, merged with Baker Watts.
The firm announced in February that it had sold itself to RBC Dain Rauscher, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Canada.
Ferris was a member of the health advisory board of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was a former governor of the New York Stock Exchange, and earned a master of business administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of science in engineering from Princeton University, according to a biography on Johns Hopkins’ Web site.
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