Shellye Archambeau
{{Short description|American businesswoman and CEO}}
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Shellye Archambeau is an American businesswoman and former CEO of MetricStream, a GRC company based in Palo Alto, California.{{cite news|last=Bailey|first=Brandon|title=Mercury News interview: Shellye Archambeau, CEO of MetricStream|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23166072/chat-shellye-archambeau-ceo-metricstream|access-date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=San Jose Mercury News|date=May 3, 2013}} She has held executive positions for numerous companies, including a 15-year career at IBM where she became the first African American woman at the company to be sent on assignment internationally.{{cite news|last=Kolawole|first=Emi|title=MetricStream CEO Shellye Archambeau on America's innovation economy and the art of success|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/metricstream-ceo-shellye-archambeau-on-americas-innovation-economy-and-the-art-of-success/2012/02/09/gIQA3eag3Q_blog.html|access-date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=Washington Post|date=February 10, 2012}} Archambeau is a guest lecturer at her alma mater, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.{{cite news|title=Next Up At Wharton Publishing – Creating Lasting Success in Marketing|url=http://magazine.whartontest.com/issues/1043.php|access-date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=Wharton Magazine}}{{cite book|last=Archambeau|first=Shellye|title=Marketing That Works: How Entrepreneurial Marketing Can Add Sustainable Value to Any Sized Company|date=2007|publisher=Pearson Education|isbn=9780132716321}} She is also a writer. She wrote Unapologetically Ambitious{{Cite web|last=Archambeau|first=Shellye|date=2020-11-11|title=How Shellye Archambeau, One of Silicon Valley's First Black Female CEOs, Turned Ambition Into Success|url=https://www.inc.com/magazine/202011/shellye-archambeau/unapologetically-ambitious-black-woman-ceo-silicon-valley-business-leadership-book.html|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Inc.com|language=en}} and co-authored Marketing That Works. Archambeau is a regular contributor for Xconomy.{{cite web|title=Shellye Archambeau profile|url=http://www.ncwit.org/profile/shellye-archambeau|publisher=National Center for Women & Information Technology|access-date=May 15, 2014}}
Early life and education
Archambeau grew up as the oldest of four children.{{cite news|last=Mehta|first=Angel|title=CEO Spotlight: Shellye Archambeau, MetricStream|url=http://www.sterlinghoffman.com/newsletter/articles/ceo-spotlight-shellye-archambeau-metricstream-inc.html|access-date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=Sterling Hoffman}} Her parents had four kids in five years, attributing her competitive nature to growing up with siblings so close in age. In grade school, Archambeau was heavily involved in sports, but her growth spurt (being 5'10" by ninth grade) kept her from high school sports, causing her to focus on clubs and organizations. Archambeau attended the Wharton School of Business in Pennsylvania. She worked as a sales assistant for IBM when she was in college, later taking a full-time job in sales after learning that many CEOs had also previously worked in sales.
Career
After graduation, Archambeau took a full-time job with IBM where she would eventually have a 15-year career, working her way up the corporate ladder. She stated that one of her goals was to run a company and that she had aspirations of becoming the CEO of IBM, working her way through various positions and later running IBM's Asia Pacific business for the public sector. That assignment made her the first African American woman to be sent on assignment internationally by the company. While at IBM, Archambeau was recruited by Blockbuster where she served as president of the company's e-commerce division.{{cite news|title=Shellye Archambeau|newspaper=Jet Magazine|date=1999}} As the leader of a new division, she was responsible for creating Blockbuster's online presence.{{cite book|last=Swan|first=Phillip|title=TV Dot Com: The Future of Interactive Television|date=2000|publisher=The University of Virginia|isbn=9781575001777|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/tvdotcomhowtelev00swan}} While she was with Blockbuster, she was recognized as one of the Top 25 Click and Mortar Executives by Internet World.
Archambeau joined NorthPoint Communications as part of its executive team during the company's merger with Verizon. Five months into her new career, Verizon pulled out of the merger, causing challenges for the company. Archambeau and the rest of the executive team stayed together until NorthPoint ended up selling its assets to AT&T. During her time there, she was recruited by Andy Rachleff of Benchmark Capital who at the time served on the board of NorthPoint and Loudcloud, Inc. She moved on to become the chief marketing officer at Loudcloud.{{cite news|title=Loudcloud to cut its work force by 19 percent|newspaper=Info World|date=May 7, 2001}}{{cite news|title=NorthPoint lays off employees|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2001/03/26/daily60.html|access-date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=San Jose Business Journals|date=March 30, 2001}} She left the company in 2002 to take her first CEO job.
In 2002, Archambeau joined Zaplet, Inc. as the company's CEO and oversaw it through the merger with MetricStream in 2004. When the two companies merged, she became the CEO of the newly formed company.{{cite news|last=Roberts|first=Timothy|title=MetricStream merges with Zaplet|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/03/29/daily27.html|access-date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=San Jose Business Journal|date=March 31, 2004}} While CEO of MetricStream, Archambeau was elected to the Board of Arbitron, a position she has held from 2005 through 2013.{{cite news|last=Lundy|first=Tykisha|title=Abritron Inc. – Shellye Archambeau appointed|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-141624684.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329175725/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-141624684.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 29, 2015|access-date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=Black Enterprise|date=February 1, 2006}} She also serves on the board of directors for Verizon Communications{{cite news|title=MetricStream CEO Shellye Archambeau Elected to Verizon Board of Directors|url=http://newscenter.verizon.com/corporate/news-articles/2013/11-07-shellye-archambeau-elected-to-board-of-directors/|access-date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=Verizon (press release)|date=November 7, 2013}} and Nordstrom Inc.
Awards and recognition
In addition to being recognized as one of the Top 25 Click and Mortar Executives by Internet World, Archambeau has received numerous other awards and recognition throughout her career. In 2014 she was named one of the 46 Most Important African-Americans in Technology by the Business Insider, ranking at No. 11.{{cite news|last=Dickey|first=Megan Rose|title=The 46 Most Important African-Americans In Technology|url=http://www.businessinsider.my/important-blacks-in-technology-2014-4/37/#.U3TuVyhD06A|access-date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=Business Insider|date=April 27, 2014}} The year prior she was No. 2 on the list of the 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology.{{cite news|last=Dickey|first=Megan Rose|title=The 25 Most Influential African-Americans In Technology|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/most-influential-blacks-in-technology-2013-4?op=1|access-date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=Business Insider|date=April 4, 2013}} She was also recognized as one of the 50 Most Important African Americans in Technology.{{cite web|title=Profiling The 50 Most: Shellye Archambeau|url=http://50mostimportantaatechnology.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/profiling-the-50-most-shellye-archambeau/|publisher=50 Most Important Technology|access-date=May 15, 2014}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/print-edition/2013/04/12/im-witnessing-changes-among-female.html?page=all Shellye Archambeau article in San Jose Business Journal]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/shellye-archambeau-of-metricstream-on-finding-mentors.html?_r=0 Shellye Archambeau interview with The New York Times]
- [http://www.xconomy.com/author/sarchambeau/ Xconomy author profile for Shellye Archambeau]
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