Drew Rabe is a Managing Director and Head of Philanthropic Advisory at BBH. In this role, he leads all aspects of BBH’s client philanthropic services, including advising individuals, families, and foundations, on their philanthropic strategy and leading family foundation administration and management. He guides and supports clients in creating and administering efficient and effective structures for their philanthropy and helps ensure their efforts align with their values and financial goals.

Prior to joining the firm, Drew served as Managing Director at Arabella Advisors. There he partnered with families and individuals, institutional, and corporate clients in their philanthropy. Drew led Arabella’s integrated structures practice, an industry-leading service that facilitated major charitable giving by providing donors with access to a wide range of vehicles and support services. Before Arabella, Drew worked at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) as its chief operating officer for Asia Pacific. There, he led a multi-year strategic reorganization and integration process. Before that role, Drew practiced law in New York for almost a decade, first as a member of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s Exempt Organizations Department and then in OSF’s General Counsel’s Office.

Drew received a B.A. summa cum laude from Boston College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Davis Polk & Wardwell Fellow and a Columbia Public Service Fellow.