Anne M. Mulcahy

chairman, CEO, Xerox

Anne M. Mulcahy is chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation. In May 2009, Mulcahy announced that she is retiring as CEO of Xerox, effective July 1. She will remain as chairman. Mulcahy was named CEO of Xerox on August 1, 2001 and chairman on Jan. 1, 2002. Mulcahy was president and chief operating officer of Xerox from May 2000 through July 2001. Prior to that, she was president of Xerox's General Markets Operations, which created and sold products for reseller, dealer and retail channels. She began her Xerox career as a field sales representative in 1976 and assumed increasingly responsible sales and senior management positions. From 1992-1995, Mulcahy was vice president for human resources, responsible for compensation, benefits, human resource strategy, labor relations, management development and employee training. Mulcahy 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.