DARIO GALINDO

GALINDO--Dario. A Partner at Brown Brothers Harriman since 2003, Dario Galindo passed away peacefully on August 8, 2023 at the age of 74. A resident of Greenwich, CT, Stonington, CT and Lake Memphremagog, located in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada, Dario was the husband of Elizabeth Merifield Galindo (Betsy) to whom he was married for nearly 45 years. He is also survived by his two brothers, Jaime and Hernan Galindo, both of Miami, and his nephew, Juan Carlos Ayala, the son of his late sister, Maria Eugenia Galindo Ayala. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, Dario moved to the United States at the age of two and later attended the Fay School in Massachusetts for his primary school education and the New Hampton School in New Hampshire for secondary school where he remained an active alumnus. Dario went on to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Bachelor and Master of Business Administration degrees. Dario spent his entire career in international banking. In 1975, he joined the Royal Bank of Canada in Montreal where his focus was on international credit markets. It was there that he met his beloved wife and in 1978, they would relocate to New Canaan, CT so Dario could join Chemical Bank in New York. He would remain at Chemical Bank for nearly ten years, until 1987 when he joined Brown Brothers Harriman. At BBH, he had broad responsibility for the firm's business activities in Latin America, with particular focus in the areas of Corporate Banking, Investor Services, and Investment Management. From the start of his tenure at BBH, Dario made a concerted effort to cultivate relationships with entrepreneurs and family holding companies throughout Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Mexico. After about five years, the firm recognized these efforts and his early success by forming a separate Latin American Banking Division centralizing all BBH product delivery to the firm's Latin American clients. Services included wealth management, trust, private equity and US and international securities custody for private pension funds and wealthy families. Dario was dedicated to BBH and to developing the firm's relationships with clients throughout Latin America. He travelled extensively and tirelessly on behalf of the firm. Mentorship came naturally to Dario, and he believed deeply in the importance of positively influencing and assisting others by guiding their professional and personal development. He was a longtime member of The Links in New York and was an avid sportsman. His frequent 4-mile treks between Grand Central Station and BBH's Broadway office were legendary. While very private about his favorite team (the Boston Red Sox from his formative years at New England boarding schools), Dario was a devoted baseball fan, traveling annually with friends, BBH colleagues and their children to spring training in Florida to watch pre-season games and track the best prospects coming through the system. Never one to sit still, when not traveling the globe, Dario was most likely to be sailing the waters off the coast of Stonington, ambling through the streets of this historic Connecticut village where he and Betsy had a weekend retreat, or golfing and swimming at their lake house in Canada. The memorial service will be private.