Company: TROW
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-028002
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Company: PRICE T ROWE GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
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 education, skills, and independence. We routinely assess and monitor the capabilities of our existing directors and whether additional capabilities and independent directors should be added to the Board. In considering the need for additional independent directors, we review any expected director departures and retirements and factor succession planning for the Board into our deliberations, with particular focus on the specific skills and capabilities of departing directors. We are very pleased with our current complement of directors and the varied perspectives they bring to the Board. The following are highlights of the composition of our current director nominees, all of whom currently serve on the Board:

| • | Nine                                                                                           
 of 11 of the director nominees are independent under the NASDAQ Global Select Market standards |

| • | Four                                                                               
 director nominees are women, representing 44% of the independent director nominees |

| • | Two director nominees are ethnically                           
 diverse, representing 22% of the independent director nominees |

| • | Two                                                                                                          
 director nominees were born outside the United States, representing 22% of the independent director nominees |

| • | Two                                                                                   
 director nominees are veterans, representing 22% of the independent director nominees |

| • | Five of the independent director nominees                                                                                           
 joined the Board within the last six years, representing 56% of the independent director nominees; the average independent director 
 nominee tenure is seven years                                                                                                       |

| INDEPENDENT                  
 DIRECTOR NOMINEE COMPOSITION |     |                      |
| INDEPENDENT                  
 DIRECTOR NOMINEE TENURE      |     | DIRECTOR             
 NOMINEE INDEPENDENCE |

| 8 | T. Rowe Price Group |

The chart below summarizes the specific qualifications, attributes, and skills for each director nominee. A " ■" in the chart below indicates that the director has meaningfully useful expertise in that subject area. The lack of a " ■" does not mean the director does not possess knowledge or skill. Rather, a " ■" indicates a specific area of focus or expertise of a director on which the Board currently relies.

|              | Executive  
 Leadership | Financial  
 Management | Investment 
 Management 
 Industry   | International 
 Business      
 Experience    | Technology | Strategy   
 Formation/ 
 Execution  | Marketing/   
 Distribution | Government/ 
 Regulatory  |
| Name         |            |            |            |               |            |            |              |             |
| Robert       
 W. Sharps    | ■          | ■          | ■          | ■             |            | ■          | ■            |             |
| Glenn        
 R.