Kris Guidroz
Kris Easter Guidroz is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc. She is a managing legal counsel and Head of North America Institutional Compliance in the firm’s Legal, Compliance and Audit Department. Kris leads a team of attorneys and compliance professionals that advise on compliance matters related to institutional advisory services and client relationships, product development, and institutional and intermediary sales. Before joining T. Rowe Price, she worked in various offices and divisions of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Division of Investment Management and the Division of Examinations (formerly the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE)). As an Assistant Director in OCIE’s Chief Counsel’s Office, Kris played a key role in several regulatory initiatives including the Dodd-Frank legislation and follow-up rules, setting examination policy, developing a new internal compliance function, and providing legal and policy advice to staff in the SEC’s national examination program. She also worked in the financial services group of a large law firm, where she counseled financial institutions on their regulatory and compliance obligations under the federal securities and commodities laws adopted or amended following the 2008 financial crisis.