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Preceded by Anne Mulcahy. President of Xerox — Chief Executive Officer of Xerox — Succeeded by Jeff Jacobson. Ursula M. Burns born September 20, , is an American businesswoman. She is a member of the board of directors of Uber. In , Forbes rated her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world. Among other civic positions, she was a leader of the STEM program of the White House from to , and head of the President's Export Council from until Burns was raised by a single mother in the Baruch Houses, a New York city housing project.
Both of her parents were Panamanian immigrants. She went on to obtain a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute now New York University Tandon School of Engineering in and a master of science in mechanical engineering from Columbia University a year later. Burns first worked for Xerox as a summer intern in , and permanently joined a year later, after completing her master's degree.
She worked in various roles in product development and planning at the company for the remainder of the s. In January , her career took an unexpected turn when Wayland Hicks, then a senior executive, offered Burns a job as his executive assistant.
She accepted and worked for him for roughly nine months before returning home because she was about to be married. In June , she then became executive assistant to then chairman and chief executive Paul Allaire. In , she was named vice president for global manufacturing. In May , 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, Burns became president of business group operations. She succeeded Anne M. Mulcahy becoming the first female CEO to follow another in that role.
She was the second of three children raised by a single mother who operated a home day-care center and took ironing and cleaning jobs to earn money to pay for Burns to attend Cathedral High School, a Roman Catholic preparatory school. From she progressed through various roles in management and engineering, and in she became senior vice president of corporate strategic services, a position in which she oversaw production operations. The appointment eventually afforded Burns the opportunity to broaden her leadership in the areas of global research, product development, marketing, and delivery, and she was named president of Xerox in
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