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Thomas M. Sprague
Courtesy Senior Lecturer of Asset Management
Thomas Sprague has been involved with the stock market for the past 20 years. As an analyst at Fidelity, he was responsible for stock picks in a wide variety of industries, from technology to leisure to steel. As a portfolio manager there he managed up to $12 billion in several retail mutual funds and institutional retirement portfolios, emphasizing a growth style of investing. Although no longer at Fidelity, he maintains an active interest in stock picking, and helps out several not-for-profit organizations with their investment decisions in addition to actively running his personal portfolio.
Sprague's work experience includes sixteen years at Fidelity Investments, where he served, successively, as equity analyst, equity portfolio manager, and group leader; and eight years as an industrial engineer at Eastman Kodak. He serves as the finance committee chair for the board of managers of Sturdy Hospital in Attleboro, Mass.; the investment committee chair for the board of pensions of the Evangelical Covenant Church in Chicago; and on the board of directors of the Covenant Trust Company in Chicago.
Sprague earned his BS in operations research and industrial engineering at Cornell University in 1979, and his MBA in finance at the Wharton School in 1989.