Cathie Wood

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Catherine (Cathie)

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Cathie Wood is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer of ARK Invest. She focuses solely on technologically enabled disruption in areas such as robotics, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, genome sequencing, and energy storage. Prior to founding this global asset manager, Wood worked at several notable firms as a research analyst, chief economist, and portfolio manager. She also spent twelve years at AllianceBernstein as CIO of Global Thematic Strategies where she managed over $5 billion worth of assets. Wood has been recognized as an influential fund manager across various outlets.

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Catherine Wood studied with Arthur Laffer in college.

She spoke at the 2020 Mauldin Strategic Economics Conference.