Stephon Jackson , CFA

Head, T. Rowe Price Investment Management

About

Steph Jackson is the head of T. Rowe Price Investment Management (TRPIM). He is a member of the Management Committee and the chairman of the TRPIM Investment Steering Committee. He is a member of the Investment Management Steering Committee, the Product Strategy Committee, and the Enterprise Risk Management Committee. He also is the Management Committee champion for the business resource group WAVE and Amplify Voices, which is focused on supporting and informing our firm’s ongoing efforts to attract, develop, advance, and retain underrepresented female talent, and is the executive sponsor of Moonshot, a T. Rowe Price Foundation-sponsored program supporting for-profit and nonprofit entrepreneurs in Baltimore. Steph also is the president of T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc.

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 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 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. 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. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Steph serves as the chair of the Executive Leadership Council Investment Committee; on the Boards for the UNC Management Company UNC Endowment, The Living Classrooms Foundation, and the Greater Baltimore Committee; and on the Committee on Governance of the Gilman School. 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 is the former chairman of the Investment Committee of the Gilman School and a member of the Advisory Board of Bridges. 

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Education

  • M.B.A., University of Pennsylvania
  • B.Sc., University of North Carolina
At a glance
Years at T.Rowe Price
17
Years of investment experience
38

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