Ellen J. Kullman

Ellen J. Kullman

Board Member at Amgen
Company Tenure: 7 years
Education:
Tufts University (B.S.) Northwestern University (M.B.A.)
Biography:

Ellen J. Kullman joined the Board of Directors at Goldman Sachs, Amgen, and Dell Technologies in 2016. Ms. Kullman has also served as the Co-Chair of Paradigm and Temasek Americas since 2016. Ms. Kullman has served as the Executive Chair of Carbo since 2022 and was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the company from 2019 to 2022. Ms. Previously served on the Board of Directors at United Technologies from 2011 to 2020 and General Motors from 2004 to 2008. From 2009 to 2015, Ms. Kullman served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DuPont and President in 2008 and Executive Vice President of several DuPont segments from 2006 to 2008 and in various positions, including Gorup Vice President of DuPont Safety and Protection from 1988 to 2006. Ms. Kullman has served on the Board of Trustees at Northwestern university since 2016, the Board of Advisors at Tufts University School of Engineering since 2006, is Co-Chair of Paradigm for Parity, and a member of both The Business Council and the National Academy of Engineering. From 2013 to 2015, Mr. Kullman served as the Chair of the US-China Business Council from 2013 to 2015.

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$3,500 $94,100

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Key Statements

“And one of the things that really struck us was around the area of unconscious bias. This hit me in the last year before I left Dupont, we were doing unconscious bias training for our people. It was part of trying to improve our own numbers and diversity. And it's real. It is absolutely real… I do think that unconscious bias training is one of the most eye-opening things I personally went through.”

“Board should have at least 30% women, but that's not going to solve the problem if you don't get the pipelines inside companies moving. And we've looked at a lot of data, we've looked at a lot of research. And one of the things that really struck us was around the area of unconscious bias. This hit me in the last year before I left Dupont, we were doing unconscious bias training for our people. It was part of trying to improve our own numbers and diversity and it's real. It is absolutely real.”