John D. Linehan is the portfolio manager for the U.S. Large Cap Equity Income Strategy and co-portfolio manager for the US Large-Cap Value Equity Strategy in the U.S. Equity Division.

In addition, he is the chief investment officer of Equity and a member of the firm's U.S. Equity Steering and Equity Brokerage and Trading Control Committees. He also is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

John’s investment experience began in 1987, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 1998, beginning as an investment analyst, covering paper and forest products and the airline industry, in the U.S. Equity Division.

From 2003 to 2009, he was the portfolio manager of the US Value Strategy, and from 2009 to 2014, he was head of U.S. Equity and chairman of the U.S. Equity Steering Committee.

Prior to T. Rowe Price, John was an executive in the oil trading and consulting industry, first as vice president and managing director for Delaney Petroleum, then as vice president and managing director for E.T. Petroleum. He also was an associate in mortgage-backed securities trading at Banker Trust NY.

John earned a B.A. in economics from Amherst College and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Henry Ford II Scholar, an Arjay Miller Scholar, and the winner of the Alexander A. Robichek Award in finance. John also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.