12 Facts About Shellye Archambeau

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Shellye Archambeau'sllye Archambeau is an American businesswoman and former CEO of MetricStream, a GRC company based in Palo Alto, California.

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Shellye Archambeau's has held executive positions for numerous companies, including a 15-year career at IBM where she became the first African American woman at the company to be sent on assignment internationally.

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Shellye Archambeau is a guest lecturer at her alma mater, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Shellye Archambeau's wrote Unapologetically Ambitious and co-authored Marketing That Works.

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In grade school, Shellye Archambeau was heavily involved in sports, but her growth spurt kept her from high school sports, causing her to focus on clubs and organizations.

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Shellye Archambeau's worked as a sales assistant for IBM when she was in college, later taking a full-time job in sales after learning that many CEOs had previously worked in sales.

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Shellye Archambeau's stated that one of her goals was to run a company and that she had aspirations of becoming the CEO of IBM, working her way through various positions and later running IBM's Asia Pacific business for the public sector.

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Shellye Archambeau joined NorthPoint Communications as part of its executive team during the company's merger with Verizon.

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Shellye Archambeau's left the company in 2002 to take her first CEO job.

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In 2002, Shellye Archambeau joined Zaplet, Inc as the company's CEO and oversaw it through the merger with MetricStream in 2004.

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Shellye Archambeau's serves on the board of directors for Verizon Communications and Nordstrom Inc.

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Shellye Archambeau's was recognized as one of the 50 Most Important African Americans in Technology.

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