Angela Ahrendts
Angela Ahrendts
Angela Jean Ahrendts, DBE is an American businesswoman and the senior vice president of retail and online stores at Apple Inc. She was the CEO of Burberry from 2006 to 2014. Ahrendts left Burberry to join Apple in 2014. Ahrendts was ranked 25th in Forbes' 2015 list of the most powerful women in the world, 9th most powerful woman in the U.K. in the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour 100 Power List, and 29th in Fortune’s 2014 list of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
Date of Birth12 June 1960
CountryUnited States of America
The experience would be that a customer would have total access to Burberry across any device, anywhere, and they would get exactly the same feeling of the brand, feeling of the culture, regardless of where, when, how they were accessing the brand.
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
I work through teams. It’s the only way I know how to work.
Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.
I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.
For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!
We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.
I think if I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of always being incredibly focused on the task at hand. So wherever I've worked, I've just always tried to do my best, achieve my best, build a great team around me.
I got my MBA at Burberry, but I will get my PhD at Apple.
I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.
My dad would always say, 'When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?'
If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years
We have always said actually this isn't about money, it's not about price. This can be an experience. It doesn't have to be about buying something.