Abigail P. Johnson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Investments
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 nearly 28,000 businesses, and supports more than 115,700 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.
Since joining the firm full-time in 1988, Ms. Johnson has worked in numerous businesses at Fidelity. Before assuming the role of President, Fidelity Investments in 2013, Ms. Johnson served as President of Fidelity's retail, workplace, and institutional businesses. Prior to that, she ran Fidelity's Workplace Investing business, and before that, Ms. Johnson spent several years in the company's Asset Management division. During her tenure in Asset Management, she managed a number of Fidelity mutual funds before being named an associate director for the firm's equity division. Ms. Johnson also managed the company's equity investment systems, overseeing the design and implementation of technology initiatives essential to Fidelity's trading, portfolio construction, management, and research capabilities.
Born in 1961, 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.
Ms. Johnson is also chairman of Fidelity International (FIL Limited), a separate company that operates independently of Fidelity Investments, that provides asset management services to investors outside the United States. Ms. Johnson joined FIL's Board as a director in November 2012 and became its chairman in February 2014.
Nicole Obi, CEO of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA)
Nicole Obi is the President & CEO of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA), whose mission is to drive economic equity and prosperity for Massachusetts to achieve inclusive growth through advocacy, programming, and strategic partnerships that enable Black-owned businesses and Black communities to thrive. She joined BECMA in 2020 as the Vice President of Member Experience & Engagement. She previously spent 12 years at Fidelity Investments, parting ways with the firm as Vice President of Customer Strategy & Engagement in 2018. She was also CEO of her own strategic consulting firm, Enterprise Advisors, after co-founding two venture-backed startup firms.
She earned two master's degrees from MIT's Sloan School of Management and the Department of Urban Studies Planning.
Ms. Obi currently serves on several boards and committees, including the Northeast Clean Energy Council, the Environment League of Massachusetts, the MassHire State Workforce Development Board, the Intensive Community Program of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Browning the Green Space, the Women's Foundation of Boston, the Governor's Advisory Council on Black Empowerment, the Boston Local Development Corporation (BLDC), as well as Longfellow Investment Management's Board of Advisors. Ms. Obi was recently appointed to the New England Aquarium Board of Trustees and as the Chair of Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office Small Business Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Boston Chapter of the Links, Inc.
Kelly Young, CFA, CAIA, Chief Executive Officer of Acadian Asset Management
Kelly joined Acadian in 2009 and most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for all aspects of the firm's client service and business development efforts globally. Prior to her current role, she was Managing Director of Acadian Asset Management (U.K.) Limited and also served for a number of years as a senior relationship manager. She is a member of Acadian's Board of Managers, Executive Management Team, Executive Committee, and Diversity and Inclusion Forum. Before joining Acadian, Kelly was the European head of the index fund management business for SGAM Alternative Investments. She has worked for Northern Trust Global Investments and Barclays Global Investors in senior portfolio management positions. Kelly received a B.Sc. (Hons) in economics & business finance from Brunel University. Kelly is a CFA charterholder and member of CFA Society Boston. She also holds the CAIA charter and is a member of CAIA Association.
Nora Yousif, Empower House Group at RBC Wealth Management
Nora Yousif is a Senior Vice President and Financial Advisor at the Empower House Group of RBC Wealth Management. She was honored as a top "40 Under 40 Professional" by Boston Business Journal as well as by her industry for going above and beyond to serve her clients. Nora is committed to empowering women and her community through financial literacy having presented to over 300 organizations and frequently contributing to TV and radio shows like Channel 5 News. She has also been published in Yahoo! Finance and Forbes. As for volunteering, Nora serves on the board of the Women's Bar Foundation and Boston Economic Council. Finally, she is MIT Sloan trained, having been immersed with some of the brightest minds in the world of finance.
EMCEE: Paula Ebben, WBZ-TV Newscasts and CBS News Boston
Multiple award-winning journalist Paula Ebben co-anchors WBZ-TV Newscasts at Noon and 5:30 p.m. Ebben is also an anchor for WBZ's streaming news service: CBS News Boston, and reports across all newscasts including WBZ-TV News' "Eye on Education" reports. During her two decade broadcast career, Ebben has also received a 2014 Columbia DuPont Award and a 2013 Peabody Award as part of WBZ-TV's team coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombings. She has been nominated for multiple Boston/New England Emmy Awards for Anchor, Reporter, Consumer Reporter, Education Series and for Writing, and won for Reporter in a WBZ Special on the Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions.
Ebben is a Central Massachusetts native raised in Shrewsbury, MA. Ebben graduated cum laude from Boston College with a BA degree in English. She serves on the Board of Directors of Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Boston's foremost agency helping homeless, runaway and at-risk youth. She also supports the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Rebecca Diaz, Vice President of Finance and Treasurer for Analog Devices, Inc.
Rebecca Diaz serves as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer for Analog Devices, Inc., managing Treasury and Mergers & Acquisitions. Analog Devices is a leading semiconductor company headquartered in Massachusetts, with approximately 25,000 employees and $12B in annual revenue. Rebecca has over 20 years of experience as a finance leader and strategic advisor in the semiconductor industry, the underlying technology driving much of our global economy and critical to our national security. Prior to her current role, Rebecca served as Division CFO at Analog Devices for the Automotive, Communications, and Aerospace & Defense markets. Previously she held positions covering business finance & controllership, sales operations, and accounting management at both Analog Devices and MediaTek. Rebecca holds an MBA from Suffolk University and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.