Ariel Investments, the first Black-owned mutual fund company in the U.S., was founded by John W. Rogers Jr. in 1983, when he was just 24 years old. He's now co-CEO along with Mellody Hobson ...

“I tell people, I don't understand why there aren't more co-CEOs,” Mellody Hobson ... in the U.S. Ariel was founded in 1983 by John W. Rogers Jr. when he was just 24 years old.

John W. Rogers Jr. John W. Rogers Jr. is the founder ... where she focuses on providing access to underrepresented minorities. Mellody Hobson has been marked for greatness from a young age.

In the second of a two-part interview, co-CEOs John W. Rogers Jr. and Mellody Hobson discuss Ariel's Project Black. In the first of a two-part series, John Rogers Jr. and Mellody Hobson said the ...

Starbucks has announced the retirement of Mellody Hobson, who has served as lead independent director on its board of directors for almost two decades. Hobson joined the US coffee chain board in ...

Not only is Hobson co-CEO of groundbreaking money manager Ariel, she’s also the only Black woman to currently chair a Fortune 500 company (Starbucks). This year, Hobson added a new job to her ...

Mellody Hobson served as chair of the Starbucks board from March 2021 to September 2024. (Amy Harris/Invision/Associated Press) The lead independent director and ...