“Using our network of healthcare professionals, financial expertise and industry knowledge, CGP’s healthcare team has the unique ability to identify innovative products and services and work together with management teams to build value.”
Arda is a founding Partner of Chicago Growth Partners. Prior to founding CGP, Arda was a Managing Director at William Blair Capital Partners and, currently, is a Managing Director and member of the Board of Managers of WBCP VI and VII. Prior, Arda was a Senior Healthcare Analyst at William Blair & Company. As head of the firm’s Healthcare Research Group, Arda covered several sectors, including drugs/drug delivery, medical devices and selected healthcare services. He was a Wall Street Journal "All-Star Analyst" in both medical device and pharmaceutical sectors. Select current and past directorships include: Atherogenics, CryoCor, DJ Pharma, EndoGastric Solutions, Favrille, Genoptix, Lanx, Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals, NovaVision, NuVasive, PharmaResearch Corporation, POINT Biomedical, Proteome, TargeGen, and Xoft. Arda received a MS (Pharmacology) from the University of Toronto, a Ph.D and a MBA from the University of British Columbia, and was a post-doctoral fellow in Pharmacology at the University of Washington Medical School.
 

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