Melanie Rizzo is an associate portfolio manager of the US Select Value Equity Strategy. Previously, she was an investment analyst covering the industrials and business services sector in the U.S. Equity Division. She is a member of the Investment Advisory Committees for the following strategies: US Large-Cap Equity Income, US Dividend Growth Equity, US Value Equity, Global Impact Equity, Global Industrials Equity, and Mid-Cap Value Equity. She also is a member of the Equity Steering Committee. Melanie is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.

Melanie has been with T. Rowe Price since 2004, beginning in the Performance Group. In 2006, she joined the U.S. Equity Division as an associate analyst on the industrials team and was later promoted to analyst. 

Melanie earned a B.S., magna cum laude, in finance and economics from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business. She also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

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