Chris Fortune is an investment analyst covering small- and mid-cap banks under the financial services sector at T. Rowe Price Investment Management. He is a vice president and member of the Small-Cap Stock and Small-Cap Value Investment Advisory Committees, a member of the Institutional Small-Cap Stock Investment Advisory Committee, and a member of the T. Rowe Price Investment Management Investment Steering Committee. Chris also is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.

Chris's investment experience began in 2004, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2005, beginning in the T. Rowe Price Associates U.S. Equity Division. Prior to this, he was employed by Hillman Capital Management as a summer research intern, following financial services firms.

Chris earned a B.A., magna cum laude, in physics with a minor in economics from Colby College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa; a B.E. in electrical engineering from Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering; and an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

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