Charles M. “Chuck” Royce is chair and portfolio manager of Royce and Associates, LLP, retiring in 2015 as president and chief executive officer of the firm that he founded in 1972. The firm specializes in investments in domestic and international small capitalization stocks. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University in 1961 and a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia University in 1963. 

Royce is a fellow emeritus of the Brown Corporation. He previously served three terms as trustee of Brown University, established the Royce Fellowship in 1996, which supports undergraduate research and enrichment projects, and established the Royce Family Professorship for Teaching Excellence in 2004 to foster, promote and reward undergraduate teaching. Royce serves as a trustee for The Frick Collection, along with the Berkeley School of Divinity at Yale University, the Bruce Museum, and the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, Florida.

Royce and his Royce Family Fund were instrumental in building the Westerly Education Center and are working on Westerly’s Tower Street Center, a multi-purpose community space being repurposed from an abandoned school. 

He served on the Vestry of Trinity Wall Street and Christ Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he was instrumental in founding “Courage and Faith,” a series that presents leading writers and artists to the community.