Angela Ahrendts

Angela Ahrendts: Biography in Details

Who is Angela Ahrendts?

Angela Ahrendts is a business personality. She is renowned as the former vice president of Apple Inc.

As per Forbes, she is the 25th most powerful woman in the world.

Angela Ahrendts- Birth, Age, Parents, Ethnicity, Siblings

She was born Angela Jean Ahrendts on the 7th of June 1960 in New Palestine, Indiana. She is of British-Irish ethnicity.

Her father, Richard was a business personality, and her mother, Jean was a homemaker by profession.

She has four sisters, Amy, Kimberly, Carrie, and Amanda.

Ahrendts’ Education

She graduated from the New Palestine High School in New Palestine. During high school, she was a cheerleader.

Later, in 1982, she graduated from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana with Honors in Merchandising and marketing.

Angela Ahrendts- Professional Life, Career

Angela Ahrendts started her career in the fashion industry. At the time, he joined the textile company, The Warnaco Group.

Later, she joined the fashion designer, Donna Karan. For seven years, she worked with the designer and created the brand, DKNY clothing labels.

In 1998, Fifth & Pacific Companies appointed her as the vice president of the department of corporate merchandising and design. Moving forward, she was promoted to the position of executive vice president of the company.

In January 2006, she joined the fashion company, Burberry as the CEO. As the CEO of the company, she opened a new retail outlet in China, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Also, she worked on the digital adoption of the company to improve the experience of customers. On the 15th of October 2013, she announced that she will be leaving the company in 2014.

After that, she joined Apple as an executive senior vice president. Serving for the company for about four years, in 2019, she left the company.

Angela’s Awards, Honors

• 2014- Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company.
• 2011- Honorary Fellowship by Shenkar College of Engineering and Design.
• 2010- Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Ball State.

Angela Ahrendts- Net Worth, Salary

Through her business career, she has made a net worth of $230 million.

She is one of the highest-paid business executives in the world. When she was the CEO of Burberry, the value of the company was $6.19 billion. Also, CNN Money mentioned in its report that, in 2012, she used to be paid around $26.3 million.

According to her financial statement of Apple, her earnings as a business executive were in the range of $70 million.

Apart from that, she also owns certain shares of the company which was evaluated to be $11 million in 2016.

Angela Ahrendts’ Controversy, Rumors

To date, she has not been through any sort of controversy that created headlines in the media.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight

Angela Ahrendts is a blue-eyed blonde. Her height is 6 feet and has an average weight.

Social Media Profile

Angela has over 20.1k followers on Instagram and over 152.5k followers on Twitter. But she is not active on Facebook.

On Twitter, she is following the personalities like Paul Graham, Brian Chesky, and Ben Horowitz.

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