Ward Sexton, CFA, Partner

Ward Sexton, 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. small- and small-mid cap growth team and is a member of Investment Management’s executive leadership team and the firm's extended leadership group. Formerly, he was an associate portfolio manager for the Small Cap Growth strategy and a research analyst on the U.S. growth and core equity team covering resource, financial, and consumer companies. Ward joined the firm in 1999, initially working in the corporate finance group for two years before moving to the investment team. Ward is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Chicago. He received a B.S. in finance, with honors, from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A., with high honors, from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.