Ben Benfield was born in North Carolina. When he was a small boy, his family moved to Elizabethton, Tennessee, where he grew up. He holds a bachelor of science degree from East Tennessee State University and a master of science (radio-television) from Syracuse University. Ben's broadcasting career includes work at WBEJ Radio, WJHL Radio and Television, Johns Hopkins ABC-TV Network File 7, and WSB-TV. He taught broadcasting at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, before returning to Atlanta, where he worked in sales for a commercial interior contractor for thirty years. Following retirement from the George F. Richardson Company, he and his wife, Jan, began the Benfield Group Inc., a meeting management and consulting company that conducted business nationally and internationally. He is married to the former Jan Wooten and has two sons and four grandchildren. Ben and Jan reside in Marietta, Georgia.
