A Conversation on Engineering and Leadership

Time: Monday, April 24, 2017 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Type:
Presenter: Ursula Burns; Chairman of the Board, Xerox Corporation
Room/Office:
Location:
Davies Auditorium
15 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
United States

Victor M. Tyler Distinguished Lectureship in Engineering

Ursula Burns
Chairman of the Board, Xerox Corporation

“A Conversation on Engineering and Leadership”

April 24, 2017; 4:30 p.m.
Davies Auditorium
15 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
Reception to follow

Bio: Ursula Burns is the chairman of the board of Xerox Corporation, having served in this position since 2010. From 2009-2016, she was also chief executive o cer. She joined Xerox as an intern in 1980 and during her career she has held leadership posts spanning corporate services, manufacturing and product development. She was named president in 2007.

During her tenure as chief executive o cer, she helped the company transform from a global leader in document technology to the world's most diversi ed business services company serving enterprises and governments of all sizes. Shortly after being named CEO in 2009, she spearheaded the largest acquisition in Xerox history, the $6.4 billion purchase of A liated Computer Services.

Most recently in 2016, she led Xerox through a successful separation into two independent, publicly traded companies – Xerox Corporation, which is comprised of the company's Document Technology and Document Outsourcing businesses, and Conduent Incorporated, a business process services company. The separation of the two businesses has enhanced their competitive positions and created signi cant value creation opportunities.

Ursula, who regularly appears on Fortune's and Forbes' list of the world's most powerful women, is a board director of the American Express Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, the Ford Foundation and Nestlé. U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Ursula to help lead the White House national program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) from 2009-2016, and she served as chair of the President's Export Council from 2015-2016 after service as vice chair 2010-2015.

She also provides leadership counsel to several other community, educational and non-profit organizations including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation, Cornell Tech Board of Overseers, the New York City Ballet, and the Mayo Clinic among others.

Ursula holds a master's in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University.