Powerhouse Business Woman Ursula Burns Recruited To Endeavor Board Of Directors

If you never heard of her, then this is the perfect time to get acquainted with Ursula Burns — and she lives up to her name. The mechanical engineer turned transformational executive that made a name for herself in the realm of business as the CEO of Xerox has been given a new gig. She will be on the board of directors at sports and entertainment agency Endeavor Group Holdings, joining the ranks of Tesla leader Elon Musk.

“As a newly public company, we are honored to welcome Ursula to our board of directors at such a transformational time,” Ari Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor, said. “Ursula is no stranger to leading global companies through change by embracing innovation and harnessing the power of technology – exactly the type of experience that will prove invaluable to us as we start this next chapter.”

The new appointment is another bump up on her resume that includes a weighty list of other companies she serves in the board of directors capacity, including Uber, Exxon Mobil, Scratch, and Waystar.

An engineering graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Ivy League Columbia University, Burns, 62, came up in the infamous Baruch housing projects in New York. Later, she would intern at Xerox in 1980 before joining the company as an executive assistant. Her career would see advances through the ranks from assistant to vice president of global manufacturing, and finally to CEO. In 2009, she was crowned the first Black female CEO of a designated Fortune 500 company. Beyond loyal, Burns would stay with the company for nearly 37 years — and even find time to meet her late husband at the print and digital document company — before stepping down in 2017.

Burns has received many prestigious honorary degrees and served on several boards, while also spearheading STEM initiatives at the White House. Ranked the 22nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2014, Burns has certainly curated an unforgettable legacy in the game of business.

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