Jay Nogueira is a director of research for North America within the Equity Division. He is co-portfolio manager of the US Structured Research Equity Strategy, cochairman of the US Structured Research Equity Strategy's Investment Advisory Committee, and a member of the portfolio oversight team. He also is a member of the Equity Steering Committee. Jay is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.

Jay's investment experience began in 2001, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2004, beginning as an investment analyst covering health care services in the U.S. Equity Division. He subsequently became associate portfolio manager for the Global Growth Equity Strategy. Most recently, Jay was the sector portfolio manager of the Global Consumer Equity Strategy, which he incepted, and the consumer team leader. He also had portfolio management responsibilities for the US Structured Research Equity Strategy, both as an analyst and as a sector portfolio manager. Prior to T. Rowe Price, Jay was employed by Putnam Investments as a health care equity analyst. Jay also was a leveraged buyout analyst at J.W. Childs Associates and an investment banking analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Company prior to business school.

Jay earned an S.B. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.B.A., with high distinction, from Harvard Business School, where he was designated a Baker Scholar, a Siebel Scholar, and a Ford Scholar. Jay also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst^® designation.

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