Ursula Burns: Former CEO of Xerox and Co-founder of Integrum Holdings

About Ursula Burns: Former CEO of Xerox and Co-founder of Integrum Holdings

Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American businesswoman who was CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016, the first Black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company and the first woman to follow another as head of one. She remained Xerox's chairman from 2010 to 2017. She served on the boards of Uber, American Express and ExxonMobil, was chairperson and CEO of VEON from late 2018 to early 2020, is non-executive chairwoman of Teneo, and in 2021 co-founded the private equity firm Integrum Holdings. Under President Barack Obama she led the White House national STEM education program from 2009 to 2016 and chaired the President's Export Council from 2015 to 2016, after serving as vice chair from 2010 to 2015. Burns was born in 1958 and raised by a single mother in the Baruch Houses, a housing project in New York City; both her parents were Panamanian immigrants. She attended and graduated from Cathedral High School, a Catholic all-girls school on East 56th Street. Sources: English Wikipedia (Ursula Burns, accessed September 2026).

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Former CEO and chairman, Xerox; co-founder, Integrum Holdings

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Xerox (former CEO) / Integrum Holdings

Document Technology, Private Equity

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