Preston Athey is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and a small-company portfolio manager in the U.S. Equity Division. He is president of the Small-Cap Value Fund and chairman of the fund’s Investment Advisory Committee. Preston is also a vice president and Investment Advisory Committee member of the Small-Cap Stock Fund.
Prior to joining the firm in 1978, he was a contract administrator on Admiral H. G. Rickover’s staff at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Preston earned a B.A. in economics from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He has also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and Chartered Investment Counselor accreditation.
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