6 companies behind the multimillion-dollar fortune of Ursula Burns, the first Black woman to lead a Fortune 500 firm
Billionaires Africa | 01.04.2026 19:27
Ursula Burns made history in 2009 when she became the first Black woman to serve as chief executive of a Fortune 500 company. That company was Xerox, and Burns had been working there since 1981, when she joined as a mechanical engineering intern fresh out of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
