Biography

Eric Veiel

Eric Veiel

Head of Global Investments and Chief Investment Officer
Eric Veiel is Head of Global Investments and Chief Investment Officer, chair of the Investment Management Steering Committee, member of the Management Committee, the Equity Steering Committee, the Fixed Income Steering Committee, the International Steering Committee, the Multi-Asset Steering Committee, Product Steering Committee and Management Compensation and Development Committee. Eric is also a member of the board of the T. Rowe Price Mutual Funds.

Eric’s investment experience began in 1999, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2005, beginning in the Equity Division as an investment analyst covering life insurance companies, asset managers, money-centered banks, and investment banks. From 2010 to 2014, he was the portfolio manager of the Financial Services Equity Strategy and the financial services sector team leader. After that, he was a co-director of Equity Research for North America and co-portfolio manager of the US Equity Structured Research Strategy. He was then head of U.S. Equity and co-head of Global Equity. Most recently Eric was head of Global Equity. Prior to T. Rowe Price, he spent six years as a sell-side equity analyst, covering health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers at Wachovia Securities, Deutsche Bank Securities, and A.G. Edwards & Sons.

Eric earned a B.B.A., magna cum laude, in finance from James Madison University and an M.B.A., with concentrations in finance and accounting, from Washington University in St. Louis, John M. Olin School of Business, where he was a Charles F. Knight Scholar. Eric also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.