Executive Overview
Abigail P. Johnson is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Investments, a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, benefits outsourcing, and other financial products and services. Fidelity helps more than 50 million individual investors with their most important financial goals, manages employee benefit programs for more than 24,000 businesses, and supports more than 16,000 wealth management firms and institutions with innovative investment and technology solutions. Ms. Johnson is responsible for executive management of the firm’s corporate operations and administration functions, as well as all the company’s diversified business units, which include asset management, retail and institutional brokerage, and workplace retirement and benefits services. She was named to the role of President in September 2013; assumed Chief Executive Officer duties in October 2014; and became Chairman in December 2016. Ms. Johnson received a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1984 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1988. She is a member of the board of directors of the Associates at the Harvard Business School and the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career Timeline
- Fidelity InvestmentsCurrent1988–Present· 38 yrs 8 mos
- Chief Executive Officer, ChairmanCurrent2016–Present
- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer2014–Dec 2025
- President2013–2014
- Head of Retail, Workplace and Institutional Business2005–2013
- President, Fidelity Asset Management2001–2005
- Equity Research and Investments, Fidelity Asset Management1988–2001
Education
Master of Business Administration
Harvard Business SchoolBachelor of Arts, Art History
Hobart and William Smith Colleges