Jennifer Rubio

Although she’s been seriously collecting art for less than a decade, Jen Rubio has made an impression on the fine art world similar to the one she made on luggage when she co-founded the Away suitcase brand in 2015. She acknowledges the impact of her collection, which is more than half by female artists and has helped elevate historically undervalued figures, but says her choices were primarily from the heart. “I didn't set out to collect women Surrealists because I felt I needed to support the estates of these women who were not getting their due,” she says. “The art is just so good.” In April, she and her soon-to-be-ex-husband, the tech billionaire Stewart Butterfield, also pledged more than  $23 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she sits on the board, to ensure that the august institution can always pay its interns. “I've always been really fascinated by interventions that happen early enough to be able to to change the trajectory of someone's life,” she says. The couple also helped several museums buy works that they loved but would not otherwise have been able to afford. “Collecting has really just been about what I want to live with,” she says. “Philanthropy is about what I want to outlive me.”