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Ms. Johnson has held a variety of key roles at Fidelity over the course of her career. She is currently president of Personal and Workplace Investing, a unit of Fidelity Investments, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans and a leading online brokerage firm.

In this role, Ms. Johnson oversees more than 17,000 employees who help millions of customers save and invest through individual retail accounts and workplace savings plans. Ms. Johnson also is a vice chairman and director of FMR LLC, the holding company for the businesses of Fidelity Investments, and a member of the Fidelity Executive Committee.

Abby was born in 1961, and 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. Abby joined Fidelity full-time in 1988, after spending two summers as an equity research analyst at the firm. Prior to joining Fidelity, Ms. Johnson was a research associate with the consulting firm of Booz, Allen and Hamilton.

In June, she took over the board governing the company's fixed-income and asset-allocation funds. She continues to run the retail division, and currently oversees 161 funds with more than $650 billion in assets. Forbes magazine recently listed Johnson as the eighth richest woman in the world, estimating her wealth at $8.5 billion.

I have been monitoring Fidelity closely for the last 13 years for my money management clients and Fidelity Independent Adviser subscribers. I recently selected Fidelity China Region Fund(FHKCX Quote) as the Best Fund for Third Quarter 2009, (see China Mutual Fund Best for Third Quarter.