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Mellody Hobson Biography

Chicago-born businesswoman best known as the Chairman of the animation studio Dreamworks Animation. She has made numerous media appearances on shows like “Good Morning America.”

After graduating from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, she rose through the ranks at Ariel Investments, LLC.

In 2009, she created and hosted the ABC show “Unbroke: What You Need to Know About Money.”

She married ‘Star Wars’ mastermind George Lucas in 2013; they have a daughter named Everest Hobson.

She featured high-profile celebrities like actor Samuel L. Jackson on her show “Unbroke.”

Mellody Hobson (born April 3, 1969) is an American businesswoman who is the president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments. She is the former chairwoman of DreamWorks Animation, having stepped down after negotiating the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., by NBCUniversal in August, 2016. In 2017, she became the first African-American woman to head The Economic Club of Chicago.

Soon after her graduation from Princeton in 1991, Hobson joined Ariel Investments as an intern and rose to become the firm’s senior vice president and director of marketing. In 2000, she ascended to become the president of Ariel, a Chicago investment firm that manages nearly $13 billion in assets. It is also one of the largest African American-owned money management and mutual fund companies in the United States.

Hobson created and hosted a show on ABC on May 29, 2009, called Unbroke: What You Need to Know About Money, featuring celebrities such as the Jonas Brothers, Oscar the Grouch and Samuel L. Jackson.

Hobson began dating film director and producer George Lucas in 2006, after they met at a business conference. Hobson and Lucas announced their engagement in January 2013, and were married on June 22, 2013, at Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch. They have one daughter together, Everest Hobson Lucas, who was born via surrogacy in August 2013.

Hobson serves on the board of many organizations, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., the Chicago Public Education Fund, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and the Sundance Institute. She is also a director of the Starbucks Corporation, and formerly a director of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.. Hobson has been acclaimed in selections such as Time’s 2015 Time 100 List, the magazine’s annual list of the one hundred most influential people in the world)., Ebony magazine’s “20 Leaders of the Future” (1992), Working Women Magazine’s “20 Under 30” (1992), the World Economic Forum’s “Global Leaders of Tomorrow” (2001), Esquire’s “America’s Best and Brightest” (2002), The Wall Street Journal’s 50 “Women to Watch” (2004).

Hobson was photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the 2016 Pirelli Calendar.

She appeared on the Jack Good Show in August 2017, where she accepted the City of Birmingham’s deepest appreciation for her charitable work with Birmingham’s Bright Leaders of Tomorrow.

On August 6, 2017 Hobson guest hosted CBS Sunday Morning’s annual “Money Issue” episode.

Actress Vanessa L. Williams based her character, self-made businesswoman Courtney Paige (in the American television drama, The Good Wife), on Hobson, studying her via Hobson’s TED talks. In 2017, Hobson was named to head the Economic Club of Chicago, the first African-American woman to do so.

Mellody Hobson was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State’s highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2018.

On June 4, 2018, Hobson was named as Vice-Chair of Starbucks Corporation.

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