Rumia Ambrose-Burbank is the President and Co-founder of Vendor Managed Solutions Inc. and VMS365, a leading technology–driven maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) company providing total maintenance solutions to an expanding client base of international corporations, setting the business strategy and directing operations for the North American and International Markets. She instituted the organization’s proprietary integrated MRO and vendor management services programs, growing VMS to one of the nation’s leading and comprehensive integrators.
Prior to VMS, Ambrose-Burbank served as a Principle and Co-founder at SDE Business Partnering, instrumental in growing the organization into one of the top 50 grossing African American-owned businesses in the nation.
Ambrose-Burbank actively serves on the Board of Directors for the Detroit Regional Chamber and Troy Regional Chamber of Commerce; the Board of Trustees for Central Michigan Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, Charles H. Wright Museum as Development Chair, and Notre Dame Prep and Marist Academy as DEI Chair and Executive Committee Member.
She and her organizations have been recognized in American Builders Quarterly, BE Magazine, Black Enterprise, EY, Forbes, Esteem Women of Michigan, Inc. Magazine, Michigan Chronicle, and Women of Power.