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THELISTFORBES.COM JUNE 30, 20 19GILBERT^ CARRASQUILLO/GETTYIMAGES- KIT CRAWFORD
$890 million
AGE: 60 RESIDENCE: St. Helena, California
SELF-MADE SCORE: 8
Crawford and husband Gary Erickson returned as co-CEOs
of $890 million (est. revenue) Clif Bar, the organic snack bar
company, in October 2018 after taking a nearly six-year hiatus.
Since coming back, Crawford has spent the last few months
launching the company’s first national TV campaign. She met
Erickson while working part-time at his bakery. Before that
she was a modern jazz dancer and worked as a maid, truck
driver and woodchopper at national parks. - TORY BURCH
$850 million
AGE: 53 RESIDENCE: New York City
SELF-MADE SCORE: 7
In December 2018, Burch became executive chairman and
chief creative officer of the $1.5 billion (est. revenue) fashion
company that bears her name. Pierre-Yves Roussel, a former
LVMH executive and Burch’s husband, took over the CEO
position. In March, Bank of America committed $100 million
to Burch’s decade-old charitable foundation to expand a
program that has been helping women entrepreneurs get
loans since 2014.
30. YOUNG SOHN
$840 million
AGE: 61 RESIDENCE:
New York City
SELF-MADE SCORE: 6
Sohn’s fortune stems from
her stake in Veeva Systems,
a software firm that works
with pharmaceutical compa-
nies like Merck and Pfizer to
streamline their clinical trials
processes. She sat on the Cali-
fornia firm’s board from 2007
when it was founded through
2014, the year after its IPO.
(Its shares are up more than
200% since the IPO.) That
same year she cofounded
Vlocity, a cloud-applications
software company that an-
nounced in March that it was
raising $60 million. Early on
she started software outfit
Nomadic Systems and sold it
to Siebel Systems for $11 mil-
lion in 1997.
32. NANCY ZIMMERMAN
$740 million
AGE: 55 RESIDENCE: Boston
SELF-MADE SCORE: 8
The Goldman Sachs alum, who got her start trading currency
options on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
cofounded hedge fund Bracebridge Capital in 1994. The
firm, which she still helps run as managing partner, has $12
billion in net assets from pensions, endowments and others,
including Yale’s $29 billion investment office.
33. ANNE
WOJCICKI
$690 million
AGE: 45 RESIDENCE:
Los Altos, California
SELF-MADE SCORE: 7
Her 23andMe has sold around
10 million DNA “spit kits,”
up from 5 million at the start
of 2018. The genetics testing
company has deep roots in
Silicon Valley: Her sister is
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
(No. 44) and her ex-husband
is Google cofounder Sergey
Brin. (See p. 86.)
31. SHEILA JOHNSON
$820 million
AGE: 70
RESIDENCE: The Plains, Virginia
SELF-MADE SCORE: 9
Cofounder of cable network
Black Entertainment
Television, which she and her
then-husband Robert sold in
2001, Johnson now invests
in hotels and golf resorts.
Her Salamander Hotels &
Resorts operates four golf
courses at Palm Harbor,
Florida’s Innisbrook Resort,
which hosts an annual PGA
Tour championship. With a
local hotelier, it also recently
opened Hotel Bennett in
Charleston, South Carolina.
34. ANNE
DINNING
$680 million
AGE: 56
RESIDENCE: New York City
SELF-MADE SCORE: 6
Dinning joined quantitative
hedge fund D.E. Shaw in
1990, two years after it
was founded above a small
bookstore in Manhattan.
The NYU alum originally
wanted to be an academic—
she earned a doctorate
in computer science—but
started building computer
algorithms to forecast
Japanese stocks. She
became part of an executive
committee that ran the $50
billion (assets) firm after
founder David Shaw stepped
away from daily operations
in 2002. Dinning, who dialed
back her role at the firm in
2017, rejoined the executive
committee in 2019. She sits
on the boards of the Robin
Hood Foundation and Math
for America.
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