David C. Patterson,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Mr. Patterson is the founder and Chairman of the
Board of Directors of Brandywine Trust Company®.
Mr. Patterson previously served as the Managing Director of Kaplan,
Choate & Co., a registered investment advisor serving high net worth
families, following his engagement as Business Affairs Director of
Handmade Films Ltd. & EuroAtlantic, Ltd. in London.
Mr. Patterson graduated from Harvard College in 1970
and from Harvard Law School (Magna Cum Laude) in 1974.
He was Administrative Assistant to the Hon. Francis W. Sargent,
Governor of Massachusetts from 1970 to 1971, Law Clerk to the Hon. Carl
McGowan, Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1974
to 1975, Law Clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Supreme Court of the
United States from 1975 to 1976, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Chief
Appellate Attorney, Southern District of New York from 1976 to 1980, and
was an Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1980
to 1982.
Mr. Patterson is a Director of Campbell Soup Company,
Florida Crystals Corporation, and Flo-Sun, Incorporated, the Chairman of
Beaverkill Valley Land Trust and a Trustee of the Wenner-Gren Foundation
