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Apple’s CEO Tim Cook Has These 7 Openly Gay Leaders to Thank

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there has not been a currently-serving openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company. (View Highlight)

Browne led energy giant BP for nearly 12 years until he resigned as chief executive in 2007 after being outed by the U.K. tabloid the Daily Mail (View Highlight)

Burgess worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley for 10 years (View Highlight)

I realized there were plenty of gay executives there, including a group of fairly senior people,” he told the New York Times. “They just weren’t out. People would ask them if they were married, and they’d say, ‘I’m married to my job.’ Everyone knew they were gay but it was never acknowledged.” (View Highlight)

Senk said he never felt any animosity or negativity because of it, although he does acknowledge that being gay in the retail world is less of a liability. (View Highlight)

One reason I went into the industry I chose is I felt it would be easier than investment banking. It was gay-friendly when I joined it,” Senk told a Wharton School of Business publication. “I wish I had had a role model when I was in college telling me it was OK to be who you are, and you can do anything you want.” (View Highlight)

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