T. Rowe Price Opens Technology Development Center In New York As A Part Of Global Technology Transformation

"New York City has a high concentration of the skills we need and provides access to deep pools of financial services technical professionals and native digital talent. The Midtown South location, which will contribute to a great working environment, is appealing to technologists and puts us in the heart of the area of Manhattan from which we are recruiting."

Jordan Vinarub, Head of Technology Development Center
"It is exciting to join T. Rowe Price at a time it is pushing into new areas and making technology a strategic differentiator for the business. We are seeking out the best development and machine learning talent across industries and looking for technologists with a fresh perspective who are passionate about solving complex business, data, and technical challenges. Those joining our growing team in the New York will work with talent across our business to create groundbreaking, next-generation applications for n-tier cloud architectures. They will also be involved, hands-on, through the entire development cycle and redefine the way our traders, portfolio managers, and analysts serve our clients."

BACKGROUND ON JORDAN VINARUB
Jordan, who brings over 15 years of software engineering and development operations experience, joins T. Rowe Price from Bridgewater Associates where he held roles in charge of strategic development across the front office in execution management and portfolio generation. In that capacity Jordan led efforts to automate multi-asset trading strategies, risk controls, and analytics systems. Prior to Bridgewater he was the head of development at REDI Global Technologies and the director of client facing technology at Liquidnet. Jordan holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Math and Computer Science from Amherst College. He's a published author with features in Dr. Dobbs Magazine and Society for Information Display Symposium.

ABOUT T. ROWE PRICE
Founded in 1937, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (troweprice.com) is a global investment management organization with $810.8 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2016. The organization provides a broad array of mutual funds, subadvisory services, and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. The company also offers sophisticated investment planning and guidance tools. T. Rowe Price's disciplined, risk-aware investment approach focuses on diversification, style consistency, and fundamental research.

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