Mr. Sharps is the chief executive officer and president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. He is chair of the Board of Directors and of the company’s Executive, Management, and Management Compensation and Development Committees. Mr. Sharps has been with T. Rowe Price 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 for 15 years until December 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. In 2017, he was named head of Investments and group chief investment officer, which he held until 2021. In February 2021, he became president of Price Group. Prior to T. Rowe Price, he completed an internship as an equity research analyst at Wellington Management. Mr. Sharps 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.