Robert D. Newman

Robert D. Newman, CFA, CPA, a member of William Blair & Company’s executive committee, has served as the Director of Equity Research and Manager of the Equity Research Group since 2001. Newman, who previously was Director of Research in Investment Management from 1999 to 2001, joined the firm in 1989 as a securities analyst in that group, and became a principal in the firm in 1993. He has chaired the firm’s annual United Way Campaign since 2004. Newman earned a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois in 1983 and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1987. Before joining William Blair & Company, he was a senior financial analyst in the business development and corporate planning groups for the Quaker Oats Company. Newman is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the CFA Society of Chicago and the Economic Club of Chicago. He is a member of the board of First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: FR). In the nonprofit area, he has started up and/or served on the boards of several educational foundations and is currently on the board of CASEL, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. 

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