Rick Taft is a senior portfolio manager on the Columbia Focused Large Cap Value team at Columbia Threadneedle Investments.

Mr. Taft joined one of the Columbia Threadneedle Investments firms in 2011, serving as a senior fundamental equity analyst, and has been a member of the investment community since 1997.

Previously, Mr. Taft was a portfolio manager at Pioneer Path (Citadel). Before that, he was a managing director and associate portfolio manager at Swiss RE.

Mr. Taft also worked at Pequot Capital and Glenview Capital. Mr. Taft began his career at Price Waterhouse, LLP where he was a senior accountant.

Mr. Taft received a B.A. and an MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.