Anne M. Mulcahy
Chairman and former CEO, Xerox
Background:
Anne M. Mulcahy is chairman of Xerox Corporation, a leading global document management technology and services enterprise.
From August 2001 through June 2009, she was also chief executive officer of the corporation. Mulcahy retired from the CEO post on July 1, 2009 and retains the position of chairman.
Prior to serving as CEO, Mulcahy was president and chief operating officer of Xerox from May 2000 through July 2001. She has also served as president of Xerox's General Markets Operations, which created and sold products for reseller, dealer and retail channels.
Mulcahy began her Xerox career as a field sales representative in 1976 and assumed increasingly responsible sales and senior management positions. From 1992 through 1995, Mulcahy was vice president for human resources, responsible for compensation, benefits, human resource strategy, labor relations, management development and employee training.
She became chief staff officer in 1997 and corporate senior vice president in 1998. Prior to that, she served as vice president and staff officer for Customer Operations, covering South America and Central America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and China.
Mulcahy earned a bachelor of arts degree in English/journalism from Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y. In addition to the Xerox board, she is a board director of Catalyst, Citigroup Inc., Fuji Xerox Company, Ltd., Target Corporation, The Washington Post Company, and is the chairman of the corporate governance task force of the Business Roundtable.