Kurt Wiese, CFA, CPA, Partner

Kurt Wiese, CFA, CPA, partner, is a research analyst on the U.S. growth and core equity team at William Blair Investment Management. He focuses on U.S. small-cap healthcare companies. Formerly, Kurt was on the firm’s corporate finance healthcare team, involved in all aspects of transaction execution. Before joining the firm in 2000, he worked in the Chicago audit practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers for two years. Kurt is actively involved in the Chicago community through his philanthropic work at the Chicago Jesuit Academy, a full-scholarship, college-prep middle school for underprivileged boys on Chicago’s West Side. He was also a participant at the Center for Japanese Language and Culture at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. Kurt received a B.S. in accounting and finance from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.