Profile
Cathie Wood
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, ARK Investment Management LLC at ARK Investment Management LLC
ARK Investment Management LLCSt. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
Cathie Wood founded ARK Investment Management in 2014 to invest exclusively in disruptive innovation through actively managed exchange-traded funds. A high-profile and often contrarian growth investor, she focuses on themes such as artificial intelligence, robotics, energy storage and genomics. She previously spent years as a portfolio manager at established asset managers.
At a Glance
- Based in
- St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
- Nationality
- American
- Born
- 1955
- Education
- B.S. in Finance and Economics, University of Southern California.
Career history
- 2014–presentFounder, CEO & CIOARK Investment Management LLC
- 2001–2013Chief Investment Officer, Global Thematic StrategiesAllianceBernstein
- 1998–2001Co-FounderTupelo Capital Management
- 1980–1998Chief Economist & Portfolio ManagerJennison Associates
Highlights
- Founded ARK Invest and built it into a widely followed thematic ETF manager.
- Became one of the most prominent public voices in disruptive-innovation investing.
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