Will Edwards

Bio

founder and Chief Investment Officer of Palo Alto Investors. His investment career began in 1982 at T. Rowe Price Associates in Baltimore, MD, where he worked as an investment analyst on the Small Cap, New Horizons Fund. In 1987, Mr. Edwards joined a San Francisco-based investment banking firm specializing in small public and private equities, as the firm’s first general partner in the research division. Mr. Edwards formed the predecessor to Palo Alto Investors in 1989. He structured the firm to take advantage of market inefficiencies he observed during his tenure on both the buy-side and sell-side of Wall Street. During the firm’s 20-year history, he has built Palo Alto Investors into one of the top small cap equity money managers in the United States. Mr. Edwards is a CFA charterholder. He is a graduate of Deerfield Academy and Stanford University where he earned both his bachelor of science and master of science in engineering