
Cathie Wood
CEO, CIO and founder of Ark Invest
Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management managed the largest actively-managed exchange-traded fund in 2020. As a thematic investor, she focuses on technologically enabled disruption that cuts across economic sectors. She was named the best stock picker of 2020 by Bloomberg News.
Who is…
- In January 2021, Ark Investment Management filed plans for ARK Space Exploration ETF (ticker ARKX) with the Securities and Exchange Commission to track U.S. and global companies engaged in space exploration and innovation.
- Wood played a role in convincing Tesla, Inc. CEO Elon Musk to keep the company public after he considered taking Tesla private in 2018.
- Also in January 2021, Ark Investment Management became one of the top 10 issuers in the $5.5 trillion exchange-traded fund industry due to demand for companies in its fund, including Tesla Inc.
- With tens of billions of dollars flowing into her thematic ETFs and returns that easily surpassed 100% last year, she has become one of the world’s best known money managers.
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