These Powerful Women Running World's Biggest Companies
Ellen Kullman
Company: DuPont
The former director of General Motors, Ellen J. Kullman is a President, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of DuPont. In 2011, Forbes ranked Kullman 4th of the 100 Most Powerful Women. The company’s 206 year of history, Kullman is the nineteenth executive and the first women to lead the company. She was elected President and a director of DuPont by the board of directors with effect from 1st October 2008 and CEO from 1st January 2009. In 2008, Kullman was placed fifteenth in Fortune Magazine’s list of the World’s Fifty Most Powerful Women.
Ursula Burns
Company: Xerox
Ursula M. Burns serves as Madam Chairman and CEO of Xerox. In 2009, she became the first African-American woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company. That was 29 years after she joined Xerox as an intern in mechanical engineering. She is also the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a Fortune 500 company. In 2009, Forbes rated her as the 14th most powerful woman in the world. In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed Burns vice chairwoman of the President’s Export Council.
