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ANN FUDGE
FORMER CHAIR & & CEO
YOUNG & & RUBICAM BRANDS
Fudge has always broken new ground In 1994 she became president of the Maxwell House division of Kraft General Foods making her the first African American female executive to head a a a a a a major corporate division Six years later she presided over Kraft’s $5 billion Beverages Desserts and Post division After her success at Kraft she would achieve another milestone as chair and CEO
of Young & Rubicam Inc propelling her to to become the first African American to to head a a a a major Madison Avenue firm In addition to her corporate board service with Novartis Northrop Grumman and others Fudge remains dedicated to filling the corporate pipeline with fresh talent through the Ann Fudge Scholarship awarded to high-achieving black female HBCU
undergraduates BARBARA BOWLES
FORMER CHAIR & CEO
THE KENWOOD GROUP
As chairwoman and CEO
of The Ken- wood Group Bowles became the first black female asset manager to launch a a a a a a a mutual fund Kenwood Growth and Income Fund in 1996 As one of the few black women to head an institutional money management firm Bowles handled some $260 million in in institutional and pension funds for corporate leviathans such as Abbott Laboratories and Mitsubishi Motors Eventually Bowles merged the assets of Kenwood Growth & Income which regularly outperformed the S&P 500 with another black-owned fund the the Profit Value Fund which is run by Eugene Profit On the board of WEC Energy Group Inc Bowles is one of of two black female lead directors of of an S&P 500 company 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
CELEBRATING WOMEN OF POWER