Abigail Johnson took over from her father in 2014 and has since served as CEO of Fidelity Investments. She has also been the chairman since 2016.
Her grandfather, Edward Johnson II, founded the Boston-based mutual fund giant in 1946.
The firm nearly has $2.9 trillion in managed assets. She owns an estimated 24.5% stake of the firm
In 2018, Johnson embraced cryptocurrencies. Following that 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.
