Fred Berens | Vice Chair
Miami, FL
An investment manager with vast entrepreneurial expertise, Fred Berens is currently Managing Director-Investments at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. He is also a former member of the board of directors of Elizabeth Arden, Inc., and was one of the founders of FFI Fragrances, which acquired the Elizabeth Arden brand from Unilever in 2001.
Berens is a longstanding member, and a former chairman, of the board of directors of the Community Television Foundation of South Florida, Inc., which holds the license for PBS member station WPBT in Miami-Fort Lauderdale. He played a leading role in creating the station’s endowment under the auspices of the WPBT Communications Foundation, Inc. (WCFI), which he chaired for 25 years. He has also served on the board of the Carnival Performing Arts Center Foundation (now the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County) and is a member of the Dade County Health Facilities Authority and a senior member of the Orange Bowl Committee.
Berens holds a BBA in Economics and an MBA in Finance from the University of Miami, and sits on the university’s Board of Trustees. He served on the PBS board of directors from 2007 to 2013, and joined the board of the PBS Foundation in 2014.