First openly gay ceo

In the nearly nine years since Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly came out as gay, three more openly LGBTQ CEOs helm Fortune companies. Inga Beale, CEO of major insurance firm Lloyd's of London, is considered one of the most powerful executives in the world. And since she is openly bisexual, she uses her position of power to lobby for equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBT community in the workplace. On Friday, she told delegates at the Stonewall Workplace Conference that LGBT inclusion is " still a work in progress " in Britain.

Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford discusses being the first openly gay woman to become a CEO in the Fortune as part of TIME FIRSTS. Tim Cook says he was motivated to come out as gay after receiving letters from children struggling with their sexual orientation. The usually private Apple CEO publicly came out in , revealing his sexual orientation in an open letter published in Bloomberg Businessweek. This made him the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune company.

Ford became the first openly gay woman to lead a Fortune company upon her appointment as CEO of the Minnesota-based food and agriculture company in August Just 10 years ago, there were no openly LGBTQ Fortune CEOs. French-American beauty company Coty , helmed since by Sue Nabi, who is transgender , has not appeared on the Fortune since its rank at No. These Fortune execs are joined by other openly LGBTQ CEOs at major global companies.

Today, Trevor Burgess is the CEO of the AI-driven flood insurance company Neptune Flood Insurance. But he may be best known as the first openly gay CEO of a publicly listed bank after the company he founded, C1 Financial, Inc, IPO’d in Until today, there has not been a currently-serving openly gay CEO of a Fortune company. While some leaders may be out in their personal lives — much like Cook — few in the corporate world have spoken publicly about it. A study by the HRC of gay and lesbian workers across the U.