Abigail Johnson (born December 19, 1961) is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Fidelity Investments. The company had been founded by her grandfather, Edward C. Johnson II, in 1946, and her father, Edward Johnson III, was its CEO when she joined. Johnson became president in 2012, CEO in 2014, and chairman in 2016.
As chairman and CEO, she has overseen the firm's expansion into digital assets and new investment products. In 2018, Johnson introduced cryptocurrency investment at Fidelity, enabling institutional investors to trade Bitcoin and Ether. She has been included on the Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women since 2015.
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Early life
Johnson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 19, 1961. Although neither Johnson nor her younger siblings felt pressured to join the family business, as a child, Johnson was attracted to her father’s work.
Johnson attended Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then graduated from William Smith College with a bachelor's degree in art history in 1984. In 1985, she began working as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she met her husband. She completed an MBA at Harvard Business School in 1988.