2. Abigail Johnson
Net worth: $15 Billion
- Abigail Johnson has served as CEO of Fidelity Investments since 2014, when she took over for her father, and has been 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 $2.9 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.