Jayesh Kannan, CFA

Jayesh Kannan, CFA, is a research analyst on the global equity team at William Blair Investment Management. In this role, he covers small-cap technology, media, and communication services companies. Before joining William Blair in 2018, Jayesh was an associate in the institutional equities division at Morgan Stanley in New York City and Singapore, where he focused on emerging market and Asian equities. Jayesh is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Chicago and has previously contributed to the Financial Times. He received a B.E. in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he was a Singapore Airlines-Neptune Orient Lines scholar and graduated with first-class honors, and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he graduated as a Martin Trust Community Fellow.