Mark Lane, Partner

Mark Lane, partner, is a research analyst on the U.S. growth and core equity team at William Blair Investment Management. In this role, he focuses on U.S. financials across all market caps. Previously, Mark served as the director of research for William Blair’s U.S. growth equity strategies from 2013 to 2017,. Before that, he was a financials sector analyst with William Blair’s sell-side research department, where he specialized in asset management, brokerage, exchanges, and investment banking. Before joining William Blair in 1998, Mark worked as a senior underwriter for The St. Paul Companies, where he analyzed specialty property-casualty insurance risks, and at Goldman Sachs, where he worked as an analyst in the Chicago high-net-worth money-management group. Mark received a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.