She’s In Charge: African-American Women CEOs In Corporate America

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She is now retired, but Ann Fudge was one of first black female CEOs of a major American corporation. She served as the chairman and chief executive officer of international marketing and communications giant Young & Rubicam from 2003 to the end of 2006. Fudge, who received a BA degree from Simmons College and an MBA from Harvard University, had a solid corporate background before coming to Y&R. She had previously worked at General Mills and at General Foods, where she served in a number of positions including president of Kraft General Foods’ Maxwell House Coffee Company.

Today, she still stays in the mix. Fudge is a director of Novartis AG, Unilever PLC, and Infosys Ltd. She is also chair of the U.S. Program Advisory Panel of the Gates Foundation, a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and serves on the Advisory Council of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Foreign Affairs Policy Board of the U.S. State Department. Plus Fudge also served as a member of President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

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