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Rob Sharps
Rob Sharps
Listen to this articleCEO and President
T. Rowe Price Group Inc.
For nearly 30 years, Rob Sharps has been a guiding voice and presence for the T. Rowe Price Group. He was named CEO and president in January 2022 and serves as the chair of the company’s executive, management and management compensation and development committees.
He began his career at T. Rowe as an analyst specializing in financial services stocks including banks, asset managers, and securities brokers in the U.S. Equity Division. Later, he would become the lead portfolio manager of the Institutional Large-Cap Growth Equity Strategy for 16 years. In 2016, he took on an investment leadership position as co-head of Global Equity and also joined the Management Committee. A year later, he became the head of investments and group chief investment officer for three years. In February 2021, Sharps became president and was named CEO less than a year later. Before coming to T. Rowe Price, he was a senior management consultant for KPMG Peat Marwick.
Sharps is a summa cum laude graduate of Towson University holding a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s of business administration in finance from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School.
Wanting to give back to the community, Sharps is a board member for Baltimore Curriculum Project. He has 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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This profile is part of The Daily Record's Power 100 List for 2023-2024. Information used in this profile was sourced from the honoree. See the full list at thedailyrecord.com. |
