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The first black woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company, [1] Burns was also the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a Fortune 500 company. Shortly after being named CEO, Burns led the acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services. [26] While as CEO, Burns was named an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013. [27]
Fifteen years later, Clifton Wharton became the first Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company after taking over at TIAA. Former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns became the first Black woman to helm a Fortune 500 ...
This is a list of women CEOs of the Fortune 500, based on the magazine's 2024 list (updated yearly). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of Sept. 2024, women were CEOs at 10.4% of Fortune 500 companies. Fortune 500 women CEOs as of 2024 (52 women)
Let’s talk about Ursula Burns, the first Black woman to run a Fortune 500 company.
The inaugural Fortune 500 recognized companies that contributed the most—“industrials” like oil producers, steelmakers, car companies, and meatpackers. ... Xerox is the first Black woman to ...
On March 15, 2021, Rosalind Brewer was appointed as the CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance. Brewer became the only black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company during that timeframe. [25] [26] In 2023, Brewer's total compensation from Walgreens Boots Alliance was $14.1 million, or 407 times the median employee pay at Walgreens Boots Alliance for that ...
Former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns says news stories that focused on her achievement as the first Black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company missed an opportunity to better understand what Xerox did to ...
In 1987 he became CEO of TIAA-CREF, the giant pension and financial services company, making him first Black chairman and CEO of a major U.S. corporation. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] A cartoon on the cover of the March 27, 1988 New York Times, [ 13 ] showed Wharton walking a tightrope across the chasm of Wall Street while carrying a safe whose contents of ...