Franklin’s Johnson Bests Ackman to Take Basketball Crown
- She picked Baylor to beat Gonzaga to win this year’s title
- Her 174 points topped more than 8,000 Bloomberg entrants
Franklin Templeton Chief Executive Officer Jenny Johnson picked three of the four finalists in U.S. college basketball’s premier tournament to cap off a dominant streak that made her the first woman to win in a Bloomberg charity challenge.
Johnson, who’s been at the helm of the money manager for a little over a year, chose Baylor University to beat Gonzaga University to win this year’s men’s NCAA basketball championship, giving her the victory over fellow business and finance heads in Bloomberg’s Brackets for a Cause.