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Steph Jackson is the head of T. Rowe Price Investment Management. He oversees a team of investment professionals dedicated to actively managing U.S. equity and fixed income investment strategies representing more than $167 billion in assets under management. He is a member of the Management Committee for T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. Steph is also vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

Prior to his current role, Steph was the associate head of U.S. Equity and a leader in the establishment of T. Rowe Price Investment Management. He was also a director of Equity Research for the European Equity Research team based in London and the U.S. Associate Analyst team based in Baltimore. Steph’s first role at the firm in 2007 was as a portfolio specialist supporting several U.S. small-cap and mid-cap strategies, in the U.S. Equity Division. Steph is a former member of the International Steering, Equity Research, and Risk Management Oversight Committees. He also is the former chair of MOSAIC, a business resource group that identifies issues and opportunities relevant to talent, business practices, and culture in support of the firm's diversity and inclusion strategy. 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 from 1997 to 2007. He was a growth portfolio manager and director of equity research with NCM Capital Management from 1994 to 1997.

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. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Steph is involved in leadership outside of the firm including former memberships on the Investment Committee of the France-Merrick Foundation, Board of the Baltimore Community Foundation, and Board 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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