John Brown is a control person of River Road Asset Management and directly owns under 5% of it. John Brown holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Operations Research from United States Air Force Academy.
River Road Asset Management is an investment adviser based in Louisville, KY, registered with the SEC since 2005. It provides investment management. Its clients include investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, and pension and profit-sharing plans. Its regulatory assets under management total $9.85 billion, as filed on 31 March 2026. Its fees, ownership and offices are on the firm’s profile.
Alex Brown is Chief Investment Officer of River Road Asset Management. He is responsible for promoting investment process alignment across all strategies and leading the research and investment data management functions, and he is a supervising portfolio manager for the Focused Absolute Value portfolio. He joined River Road in 2010 and previously served as Director of Research for River Road.
- CRD
- 5191236
- Firm
- River Road Asset Management · CRD 134918
- Role
- Chief Investment Officer
- In role since
- February 2021 · 5 years
- Control person
- Yes
- Direct ownership
- Under 5%
- Firm headquarters
- Louisville, KY
- Individual registration
- No current adviser record · SEC search
- Disciplinary history
- Not yet shown here · SEC record
- Firm bio
- riverroadam.com
Where does John Brown work?
John Brown has been Chief Investment Officer of River Road Asset Management, LLC since February 2021, and is a control person of the firm.
How can I verify John Brown’s record?
John Brown’s role is listed on River Road Asset Management, LLC’s Form ADV, which the SEC’s adviser search (adviserinfo.sec.gov) publishes under the firm’s CRD 134918.





