Alex Obaza is the portfolio manager of the US Ultra Short-Term Bond Strategy in the Fixed Income Division. He is an executive vice president of the Short-Term Bond Funds; a vice president and member of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Corporate Income Fund; chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Ultra Short-Term Bond Fund; and a vice president of the Fixed Income Series, Institutional Income Funds, and Multi-Sector Account Portfolios. He also is an Investment Advisory Committee member of the Institutional Long Duration Credit Fund, Multi-Sector Account Portfolio, Limited-Term Bond Portfolio, and Investment-Grade Corporate Multi-Sector Account Portfolio and a member of the Valuation Committee. Alex is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Trust Company.

Alex's investment experience began in 2008. He was with T. Rowe Price from 2003 to 2006, beginning in the Investment Compliance department, then transferring to the Equity Division as an investment liaison. Alex returned in 2008 as an investment-grade corporate credit analyst in the Fixed Income Division. In 2017, he was promoted to an associate portfolio manager on the U.S. Taxable Low Duration team, and in 2020 he assumed his current role. 

Alex earned a B.S. in business from Wake Forest University and an M.B.A., with a concentration in finance, from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business. Alex also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

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