Biography

Rob Sharps has been a director of Price Group since January 2022. He is the chair of the Board and chief executive officer, T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. He also chairs the company's Executive, Management, and Management Compensation and Development Committees. Rob has been with Price Group since 1997, beginning as an analyst specializing in financial services stocks, including banks, asset managers, and securities brokers, in the U.S. Equity Division. He was the lead portfolio manager of the Institutional Large-Cap Growth Equity Strategy from 2001 to 2016. In 2016, he stepped down from portfolio management to assume an investment leadership position as co-head of Global Equity, at which time he joined the Management Committee. Rob was head of Investments and group chief investment officer from 2017 to 2021. In February 2021, he became president of Price Group and then chief executive officer in January 2022. Prior to Price Group, he completed an internship as an equity research analyst at Wellington Management. Rob also was employed by KPMG Peat Marwick as a senior management consultant, where he focused on corporate transactions, before leaving to pursue his M.B.A. in 1995.

Rob earned a B.S., summa cum laude, in accounting from Towson University and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst^® designation.

He currently serves on the board of directors of the Greater Washington Partnership, the Baltimore Curriculum Project and the board of trustees for Bridges of Baltimore. Rob previously served on the St. Paul's School board of trustees and was chair of the investment committee from July 2015 to June 2020. He also spent six years on Towson University's College of Business and Economics alumni advisory board.

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