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Ursula Burns
Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American businesswoman. Burns was the CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016. Burns was the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company. She is also the first woman to follow another as the head of a Fortune 500 company. Burns remained the chairman at Xerox from 2010 to 2017.
Burns also served on the board of directors of Uber, American Express, and ExxonMobil. She was the chairperson and CEO of VEON from late 2018 to early 2020 and is the Non-Executive Chairwoman of Teneo.
In 2021, Burns co-founded private equity firm Integrum Holdings.
Under President Barack Obama Burns led the White House national program on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from 2009 to 2016. Additionally, she was chairwoman of the President's Export Council from 2015 to 2016, following her role as vice chair from 2010 to 2015.
In 2014, Forbes rated Burns as the 22nd most powerful woman in the world.
Born in 1958, Burns was raised by a single mother in the Baruch Houses, a housing project in New York City. Both of her parents were Panamanian immigrants. She attended and graduated Cathedral High School, a Catholic all-girls school on East 56th Street in New York.
After high school, Burns attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering) where in 1980 she earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. During that summer, she became a mechanical engineering summer intern at Xerox. This internship was an integral component of Xerox's graduate engineering initiative designed to support underrepresented minorities. It not only provided her with valuable experience but also financially supported her pursuit of a master's degree at Columbia University, which she completed in 1981.
She has since received additional honorary degrees from New York University, Williams College, the University of Pennsylvania, Howard University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The City College of New York, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the University of Rochester, Xavier University, and Georgetown University.
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Ursula Burns
Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American businesswoman. Burns was the CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016. Burns was the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company. She is also the first woman to follow another as the head of a Fortune 500 company. Burns remained the chairman at Xerox from 2010 to 2017.
Burns also served on the board of directors of Uber, American Express, and ExxonMobil. She was the chairperson and CEO of VEON from late 2018 to early 2020 and is the Non-Executive Chairwoman of Teneo.
In 2021, Burns co-founded private equity firm Integrum Holdings.
Under President Barack Obama Burns led the White House national program on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from 2009 to 2016. Additionally, she was chairwoman of the President's Export Council from 2015 to 2016, following her role as vice chair from 2010 to 2015.
In 2014, Forbes rated Burns as the 22nd most powerful woman in the world.
Born in 1958, Burns was raised by a single mother in the Baruch Houses, a housing project in New York City. Both of her parents were Panamanian immigrants. She attended and graduated Cathedral High School, a Catholic all-girls school on East 56th Street in New York.
After high school, Burns attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering) where in 1980 she earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. During that summer, she became a mechanical engineering summer intern at Xerox. This internship was an integral component of Xerox's graduate engineering initiative designed to support underrepresented minorities. It not only provided her with valuable experience but also financially supported her pursuit of a master's degree at Columbia University, which she completed in 1981.
She has since received additional honorary degrees from New York University, Williams College, the University of Pennsylvania, Howard University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The City College of New York, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the University of Rochester, Xavier University, and Georgetown University.
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