About the Manager

Robert W. Smith is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and T. Rowe Price International, Inc., and a portfolio manager in T. Rowe’s Equity Division. He is president and investment advisory committee chairman of the Growth Stock Fund as well as president and an investment advisory committee member of the New America Growth Fund. If that weren’t enough to keep him busy, Smith is also a VP and investment advisory committee member of the Blue Chip Growth Fund, Global Stock Fund, Growth & Income Fund, International Funds, Inc., and Media & Telecommunications Fund. He joined T. Rowe as a research analyst in 1992 after five years as an investment analyst for Massachusetts Financial Services. A graduate of the University of Delaware with a B.S. in finance and economics, Smith also holds an M.B.A. from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia.