Mehmet Kinak is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. He is the Global Head of Equity Trading. His responsibilities include overseeing T. Rowe Price’s trading desks globally and leading efforts to improve the overall trading process. Mr. Kinak has extensive experience in equities trading and is an expert in algorithmic trading and market structure.
He is Co-Chair of the New York Stock Exchange’s Institutional Traders Advisory Committee, serves on the Institutional Traders Advisory Committees of CBOE Global Markets, IEX Group, and Nasdaq and Chairs the Investment Company Institute’s (ICI) Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee. Mehmet previously served as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee. He is a board member of the National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP) and a member of Virginia Tech’s Finance Advisory Board.
Mehmet joined the firm in 2000 and worked as a portfolio accounting associate, investment liaison, portfolio implementation manager, an electronic trader, and Head of Systematic Trading before assuming his current role in 2021. Mehmet earned a B.S. in finance from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.