WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE ( Ranked 45 in Global 500 )

Boudreaux

ELEVANCE HEALTH ( Ranked 50 in Global 500 )

A successful athlete on the basketball court during her time at Dartmouth College , Gail Boudreaux subsequently completed her MBA at Columbia Business School in 1989 .

Boudreaux ' s working career has taken her to various healthcare firms across the US , including Aetna , Blue Cross Blue Shield and UnitedHealthcare .

She moved across to health insurance provider Anthem in 2017 to become the company ’ s CEO .

The firm , which has since rebranded to Elevance , has almost 50 million members and serves in excess of 115 million through its affiliated companies .

Rosalind Brewer ’ s appointment to the position of CEO at Walgreens Boots Alliance in 2021 made her the only Black woman at the top of an S & P 500 company .

In 2019 , this trailblazer had already become the first Black woman to sit on Amazon ’ s board .

Brewer ’ s rise to the top is all the more impressive when you consider she was a first-generation college student who subsequently started her working career as a chemist at Kimberly-Clark .

Prior to joining Walgreens , she served in top positions at Sam ’ s Club and Starbucks , implementing groundbreaking racial bias training for thousands of employees at the latter .

76 March 2023