Primary Job Title Founder & President Primary Organization 
Natural Habitat Adventures
Location Denver, Colorado, United States Regions Greater Denver Area, Western US Gender Male
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Ben was raised in New Jersey (he claims there are parts of Jersey that are absolutely beautiful, but he admits that he didn't live in those parts) and received his higher education at Skidmore College in Saratoga, NY. Ben's first short-lived job was teaching at a boarding school in New Hampshire where, he confesses, he was a dreadful
teacher but he and the kids had a grand time playing soccer in the yard and listening to music in the dorm.
During his one-year teaching career Ben took a group of students on a ski and outdoor adventure to Colorado and knew immediately that he was going to pursue a career in travel and nature. In 1984, not given to working for others (his experience with the Headmaster of the prep school was a disaster, for him and for the Headmaster), Ben decided to pursue his dreams independently. Saving $600 driving a garbage truck at an amusement park, he invested that undersized savings in typing (on an antiquated standard typewriter) and photocopying a small brochure advertising ski and adventure trips. It wasn't long before the International Fund for Animal Welfare (the world's largest animal welfare organization) put out a feeler for a young and ambitious adventure travel company to help them develop a seal watching tourist industry to replace the seal hunt in eastern Canada.
