34 Facts About Ursula Burns

Ursula M Burns was born on September 20,1958 and is an American businesswoman.

Ursula Burns additionally was Xerox's chairman from 2010 to 2017.

Ursula Burns is known for serving on the board of directors on multiple large American companies, including Uber, American Express, and ExxonMobil.

Ursula Burns was the chairman and CEO of VEON from late 2018 to early 2020, and the Chairwoman of Teneo.

Ursula Burns was raised by a single mother in the Baruch Houses, a New York city housing project.

Ursula Burns attended Cathedral High School, a Catholic all-girls school on East 56th Street in New York.

Ursula Burns went on to obtain a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1980 and a master of science in mechanical engineering from Columbia University a year later.

Ursula Burns 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, the University of Rochester, Xavier University, and Georgetown University.

Ursula Burns first worked for Xerox as a summer intern in 1980, and permanently joined a year later, after completing her master's degree.

Ursula Burns worked in various roles in product development and planning at the company for the remainder of the 1980s.

Ursula Burns accepted and worked for him for roughly nine months before returning home because she was about to marry.

In May 2000, Ursula Burns was named senior vice president of corporate strategic services and began working closely with soon-to-be CEO Anne Mulcahy, in what both women have described as a true partnership.

Two years later, Ursula Burns became president of business group operations.

In 2007, Ursula Burns assumed the role of president of Xerox.

The first black woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company, Ursula Burns was the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a Fortune 500 company.

Shortly after being named CEO, Ursula Burns led the acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services.

Ursula Burns remained chairwoman and CEO of Xerox through the process, and was then appointed chairwoman of the standalone document technology company.

Ursula Burns retained the title of chairwoman of the newly formed document technology company until May 2017, when she left the Xerox board and her role as chairperson.

US President Barack Obama appointed Ursula Burns to help lead the White House National STEM program in 2009, and she remained a leader of the STEM program until 2016.

Ursula Burns has served on numerous boards, including those of Boston Scientific, FIRST, the National Association of Manufacturers, the University of Rochester, the MIT Corporation, the Rochester Business Alliance, and the RUMP Group.

Ursula Burns remains a board director of the American Express Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Datto Inc.

Ursula Burns joined Teneo as a senior advisor in June 2017.

Ursula Burns joined the board of directors of Uber in late September 2017.

In July 2017, Ursula Burns was elected chairman of VEON, the world's 11th largest telecoms service provider by subscribers, by its board of directors.

Ursula Burns was announced to be joining Diageo board as a non executive director but Diageo announced on March 2018, that "Ursula Burns will not take up her appointment as Non-Executive Director on the Diageo Board" as she has been appointed as interim Executive Chairman of VEON.

Ursula Burns provides leadership counsel to community, educational and non-profit organizations including FIRST, National Academy Foundation, MIT, and the US Olympic Committee, among others.

Ursula Burns is a founding board director of Change the Equation, which focuses on improving the US's education system in science, technology, engineering and math.

Ursula Burns served as vice chairwoman of the executive committee of The Business Council between 2013 and 2014.

Ursula Burns has delivered the commencement address at universities including Rochester Institute of Technology, MIT, the University of Rochester, Xavier University, Howard University, Williams College, and Georgetown University.

Ursula Burns has been listed multiple times by Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

Ursula Burns was married to Lloyd Bean until his death in 2019; he worked at Xerox, and they lived in Rochester, New York.

Ursula Burns has a daughter Melissa was born on c 1992 and and a stepson Malcolm was born on c 1989 and who attended MIT.

Ursula Burns has been a major donor to McQuaid Jesuit High School in New York.

Ursula Burns published a memoir, Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir, in 2021.