Robins Executive Speaker Series with Rob Sharps

Schedule

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 

6 p.m. | Program
7 p.m. | Networking Reception

About

Rob Sharps

Chair & CEO, T. Rowe Price

Mr. Sharps is the chief executive officer of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. He chairs the Board of Directors and the company’s Management Committee.

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 led 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 was also employed by KPMG Peat Marwick as a senior management consultant, where he focused on corporate transactions, before leaving to pursue an M.B.A. in 1995.

Mr. Sharps earned a B.S., summa cum laude, in accounting from Towson University and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School. He has also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. During his portfolio management tenure, T. Rowe Price was twice named Large-Cap Growth Equity Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor magazine. Mr. Sharps serves on the board of directors of the Greater Washington Partnership and the Baltimore Curriculum Project and the board of trustees for Bridges Baltimore. He is also a director of the privately held Longeviti Neuro Solutions.