Henry joined Brakeley, John Price Jones Inc.—Brakeley Briscoe’s predecessor firm—25 years ago. As managing director, he shares in the ownership and management of the firm. He has particular expertise in working with cultural, educational and environmental institutions.
Currently, he has consulting assignments with: Cincinnati Museum Center; the Idea Center, a civic partnership of ideastream (WVIZ/PBS and WCPN/NPR) and Playhouse Square Foundation, and; Long Island University; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. (Former clients are listed on attachment.)
Henry is a native of Louisville, Kentucky and an alumnus of Princeton University. After graduation, he joined Princeton’s Annual Giving staff and subsequently served as assistant director and major gift coordinator for Princeton’s first major capital campaign. Upon completion of that assignment, he was appointed director of development and vice president at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He managed its founding building campaign for $165 million and conducted the Center’s community affairs and art acquisition program.
Henry was then appointed vice president for development at Princeton University, where for ten years he directed fundraising from both private and public sources and participated in University planning and resource allocation. During his tenure at Princeton, Annual Giving tripled and a capital program of $125 million was achieved.
Henry has served as a trustee of Saint Augustine’s College, Raleigh, North Carolina, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, McCarter Theatre Company of New Jersey and Princeton-in-Asia. He also has held the position of Senior Warden of Trinity Church, Princeton, Treasurer of All Angels’ Church, Manhattan, and as Class Agent and Planned Giving Chair of his Princeton University Class.
Henry currently is a trustee of The Helm Foundation and a director and vice president of the Vineyard Conservation Society, Martha’s Vineyard.
Henry ‘s avocational interests are centered in the performing and visual arts, including walking and observing architecture, and preserving environmentally endangered areas, American novels and biographies, political analysis and art criticism are the reading fields, which he particularly enjoys.