Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood registered ARK Investment Management LLC (ARK) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, she founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Through an open approach that cuts across sectors, market capitalizations, and geographies, Ms. Wood believes that ARK can identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centered around DNA sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology. As chief investment officer (CIO) and portfolio manager, she led the development of ARK's philosophy and investment approach and has ultimate responsibility for investment decisions.

Prior to ARK, Ms. Wood spent twelve years at AllianceBernstein as CIO of global thematic strategies where she managed over $5 billion. She joined Alliance Capital from Tupelo Capital Management, a hedge fund she co-founded, which in 2000, managed approximately $800 million in global thematic strategies. Prior to her tenure at Tupelo Capital, Ms. Wood worked for 18 years with Jennison Associates LLC as chief economist, equity research analyst, portfolio manager, and director. She started her career as an assistant economist in Los Angeles, California at The Capital Group. Ms. Wood received her Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in finance and economics from the University of Southern California in 1981.

She has been recognized as an influential fund manager across various outlets. In 2018, editors at Bloomberg acknowledged Ms. Wood by selecting her for its second annual Bloomberg 50 list of people across business, entertainment, finance, politics, technology, and science who have defined global business. Additionally, Fortune named her to its exclusive roundtable of experts in the annual Fortune Investors Guide: The Best Investing Advice for 2019 From Fortune's Experts. In 2016, Ms. Wood received the Women in Finance - Outstanding Contribution Award from Market Media. She also has been a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum (China) in 2016 and 2017, the World Strategic Forum (Miami) in 2017, The Sohn Hearts and Minds Investment Leaders Conference (Australia) in 2018 and 2019, Singularity University's Exponential Finance in 2017, and Global Summit in 2019.

In 2018, Ms. Wood launched the Duddy Innovation Institute at her alma mater, Notre Dame Academy in Los Angeles. The institute offers a challenging educational experience for young women eager to stretch their learning beyond the boundaries of traditional acquisition of knowledge while influencing a new way of thinking and learning throughout campus.