Farris Shuggi is the portfolio manager of the QM US Value Equity Strategy in the U.S. Equity Division. He is the chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee of the QM US Value Equity Strategy and an Investment Advisory Committee member of the Quantitative Management Strategies and the US Capital Appreciation, US Large-Cap Equity Income, and US Diversified Small-Cap Value Strategies. Farris also is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.

Farris has been with T. Rowe Price since 2008, beginning in the quantitative area of the U.S. Equity Division. Prior to his current position, he was a quantitative analyst in the Equity Quantitative Research Group, focusing on developing security selection models.

Farris earned a B.S. in financial economics and an M.A. in economic policy analysis from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an M.A. in economics and an M.S. in finance from Washington University in St. Louis. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.