Charles B. Johnson

Charles Bartlett Johnson is an American billionaire businessman, with an estimated current net worth of around $5.1 billion. 

• Charles Johnson is the largest shareholder in Franklin Resources, a global investment management firm also called Franklin Templeton Investments.
• Johnson became CEO at age 24 in 1957, a decade after his father, Rupert Johnson Sr., founded the company.
• Johnson spent 56 years with the company before handing over the chairman’s post to his son, Gregory, who also serves as CEO, in 2013.
• Under his leadership, the firm’s assets under management rose from $2.5 million in 1957 to more than $800 billion when he retired.
• In 2012, Johnson and his wife donated their historic, 67,000-square-foot Carolands Chateau in Hillsborough, California to the Carolands Foundation.