Jim Golan, CFA, Partner

Jim Golan, CFA, partner, is a portfolio manager on the U.S. growth and core equity team at William Blair Investment Management. He leads the U.S. large-cap growth team and is also a member of Investment Management’s executive leadership team. Formerly, Jim was a research analyst covering U.S. large-cap technology stocks, financial, industrial, and resource stocks. Before joining the firm in 2000, he was a global research team leader at Citigroup Global Asset Management for the telecommunications sector and a key member of the team that devised valuation metrics for standardizing the analysis of U.S. and international companies. Previously, Jim was a research analyst at Kemper Financial covering telecommunications, technology, energy, industrial, food, and beverage companies. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Chicago. Jim received a B.A. in economics from DePauw University and an M.B.A. in finance from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.