Joe Fath is the portfolio manager for the U.S. Growth Stock Equity Strategy, including the Growth Stock Fund, in which he is chairman of the investment advisory committee. 

He is a vice president and member of the investment advisory committee of the U.S. Quantitative US, U.S. Mid-Cap Growth Equity, U.S. Communications and Technology and U.S. Large-Cap Growth Equity Strategies.   He is vice president of T. Rowe Price Group. 

Joe’s investment experience began in 2000 and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2002, beginning in the U.S. Equity Division after serving as a summer intern in 2001.   

Prior to this, Joe was the chief financial officer and co-founder of Broadform, Inc., a start-up educational software company.  In addition, he worked as director of operations and analysis for Players International, a multi-jurisdictional gaming operator in the United States. 

Joe was also employed by Coopers & Lybrand as a senior associate in the Business Assurance and Financial Advisory Services Group.  

Joe earned a B.S., with honors, in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

He also earned an M.B. A., with honors, in finance and entrepreneurial management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.  He is a Certified Public Accountant.