Abigail Johnson

Abigail Johnson has served as CEO of Fidelity Investments since 2014, when she took over for her father, and as chairman since 2016.Her grandfather, Edward Johnson II, founded the Boston-based mutual fund giant in 1946.She owns an estimated 24.5% stake of the firm, which has nearly $2.7 trillion in managed assets.Johnson has embraced cryptocurrencies and, in 2018, Fidelity launched a platform that allows institutional investors to trade bitcoin and ether.She worked summers at Fidelity through college and joined full-time as an analyst in 1988 after receiving a Harvard M.B.A.