Ursula Burns

First African American female CEO of Xerox

Ursula Burns is a renowned American business executive and engineer. She was born in 1950 in Kingston, Jamaica, and later moved to the United States. Burns earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the City College of New York and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Pennsylvania. She joined Xerox in 1986 and rose through the ranks to become the company's first African A...