Bessie LaRae Orullian (born May 13, 1933) is an American banker, executive, and former president of Girl Scouts of the USA.
[1] After graduating high school, she got a job as a bank messenger, then coin wrapper, then file clerk[2] and was eventually promoted within the company to loan processor.
[3] She subsequently decided she wanted to be a banker on Wall Street and headed east, but once she reached Denver, she stayed there.
[2] According to the editor of the magazine, Wendy Reid Crisp, Orullian and her colleagues were nominated because "we believe them to be the front-runners for chief executive officer".
[8] Orullian has been on or led boards of many companies, including Frontier Airlines and WellPoint Financial (Anthem Inc.).