Stephon Jackson
Steph Jackson is the head of T. Rowe Price Investment Management. He is a member of the Management Committee; chair of the T. Rowe Price Investment Management (TRPIM) Investment Steering Committee; and a member of the Investment Management, TRPIM ESG, and Product Strategy Committees. Steph also is the president of T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc., and executive sponsor of Moonshot, a T. Rowe Price Foundation-sponsored program supporting for-profit and nonprofit entrepreneurs in Baltimore.
Steph's investment experience began in 1986, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2007, beginning as a portfolio specialist, supporting several U.S. small-cap and mid-cap strategies, in the T. Rowe Price Associates U.S. Equity Division. After that, he was a director of Equity Research, leading the U.S. Associate Analyst team and the European Equity Research team in London. Most recently, Steph was the associate head of the U.S. Equity Division. Steph is a former member of the Equity Steering, International Steering, Equity Research, and Risk Management Oversight Committees. He also is the inaugural chair of MOSAIC @ T. Rowe Price, an associate-led business resource group dedicated to advancing the inclusion and engagement of ethnically diverse talent and allies. Prior to T. Rowe Price, he was a senior portfolio manager and a managing director with Brown Capital Management, where he managed mid-cap and large-cap growth portfolios. Prior to that, he was a growth portfolio manager and director of equity research with NCM Capital Management.
Steph earned a B.S. in business administration from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School. Steph also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Steph serves on the UNC Management Company UNC Endowment Board of Directors. He is a former member of the Investment Committee of the France-Merrick Foundation, a former executive Board member of the Baltimore Community Foundation, and a former Board member of the Abell Foundation. He also was the chairman of the Investment Committee of the Gilman School and a member of the Advisory Board of Bridges.
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