Tim is a long-time private equity investor, having spent more than 25 years as a Managing Partner and investment committee member at Chicago Growth Partners and William Blair Capital Partners, which he founded in 1987. Tim has served on the board of over two dozen private equity owned companies during his career including CES, Towne Holdings, Sanford, Daiseytek and ECIN. Tim received his BA from Duke University and his MBA from the University of Chicago.