Catherine D. Wood

Catherine D. Wood is the founder, CEO, and CIO of ARK Investment Management LLC, an investment management firm that managed the largest actively-managed exchange-traded fund in 2020. Wood was named the best stock picker of 2020 by Bloomberg News editor-in-chief emeritus Matthew A. Winkler, and in January 2021, Wood's Ark Investment Management filed plans for ARK Space Exploration ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to "primarily track U.S. and global companies engaged in space exploration and innovation."