Ursula Burns Biography

A successful American entrepreneur, Ursula M. Burns. She has served as Diageo's non-executive director since April 2018 and is the chairman and CEO of VEON, a senior advisor to Teneo, and VEON. She also serves on the Uber board of directors. Burns was the first black woman and the first woman to replace another woman as CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation when she was appointed CEO of Xerox in 2009. Burns held the positions of chairperson and CEO of Xerox from 2010 until 2017, respectively. She was listed as the 22nd most influential woman in the world by Forbes in 2014. Among other civic roles, she oversaw the White House's STEM initiative from 2009 to 2016 and served as the President's Export Council's chair from 2015 to 2016.

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