Gregory A. McCrickard was the lead portfolio manager for the firm’s U.S. Small-Cap Core Equity Strategy and chairman of the strategy’s Investment Advisory Committee. He also served on the Investment Advisory Committees for the Firm’s Mid-Cap Value, Small-Cap Stock, and Small-Cap Value strategies. Greg is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. and was previously a member of the firm’s U.S. Equity Steering Committee. Greg currently serves in an advisory role mentoring younger investors.

Greg has 34 years of investment experience, 32 of which have been at T. Rowe Price. Prior to joining T. Rowe Price, he was a trust officer at Wachovia Bank. He is a member of the board of directors for Trout Unlimited, the Frank J. Battaglia Signal 13 Foundation and St. Ignatius Loyola Academy – Baltimore. He earned a B.A., with distinction, from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was an Edward Tuck Scholar. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Greg is a fifth-generation Irish American on his father’s side. John McCrickard immigrated to Virginia from County Down, Northern Ireland late in the 18th century. “I’m descended from a long line of tobacco farmers in southern Virginia. Hard work and personal accountability was the norm. These traits have served me well in my financial career.”