In this article we are going to list the 5 biggest companies with gay CEOs. For a detailed coverage of this topic and a more comprehensive list, please take a look at the 12 biggest companies with gay CEOs.
5. Qantas
Name of CEO: Alan Joyce
Total revenue of the company in 2019: $ 17.96 B
Alan Joyce became the CEO of Qantas in 2008. He is also a member of the Safety, Health, Environment, and Security Committee. Apart from working at Qantas, he is also serving as a Director of the Business Council of Australia. He is responsible for network planning, network strategy functions, and schedule planning at Qantas. He was a strong advocate of legalizing same-sex marriage in Australia and also donated $1 million to the LGBT campaign. He is also the patron of Pinnacle Foundation, an organization that sheds light on how people from the LGBT are being marginalized in Australia.
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4. Fidelity International
Name of CEO: Anne Richards
Total revenue of the company in 2019: $20.9 B
Fidelity International is one of the biggest firms that has over 2.4 million clients all over the globe. Anne Richards became the CEO of Fidelity International in 2018 and before that, she served at Aberdeen Asset Management as a CIO and M&G Investments as CEO. She has also been a part of the Socio-economic Inclusion Working Group in the UK. In an interview, she pointed out that as a CEO of Fidelity one of her primary goals is to create an inclusive workspace where one can feel safe.
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3. Macy’s Inc (NYSE:M)
Name of CEO: Jeffrey Gennette
Total revenue of the company in 2019: $ 24.56 billion
Jeffrey Gennette is a graduate of Stanford University and he started his retail career at the age of 22 at Macy’s West in San Francisco in 1983. Macy’s is a department store chain company that was found in 1858. By 2017 the company had 130,000 employees. In 2003 Jeffrey Gennette became the Executive Vice President and Director of Macy’s Central in Atlanta. Jeffrey Gennette became the CEO of Macy’s Inc in 2017 and has previously served as president for three years. Prior to this, he was the Chief Merchandising Officer of Macy’s Inc. he has been at Macy’s Inc for more than 33 years.
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2. Dow (NYSE:DOW)
Name of CEO: Jim Fitterling
Total revenue of the company in 2019: $42.95 billion
Jim Fitterling became the CEO of Dow, a global materials science company, in 2018 and before that served as a COO. Previously he was a COO of the Materials Science Division of DowDuPon. He has worked at Dow for a total of 35 years and in this period, he has been a great advocate for inclusion. He has also encouraged Dow to have more diversity on a global level. In 2018 he was recognized by Yahoo Finance as the #1 LGBT+ Executive who is outstanding in Business. Currently he is also serving as a Vice-Chair of the National Association of Manufacturers, an advocacy group.
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1. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)
Name of CEO: Tim Cook
Total revenue of the company in 2019: $260 billion
Topping the list of the biggest companies with gay CEOs is Tim Cook became Apple’s CEO in 2011 and before that, he served as Chief Operating Officer and was responsible for Apple’s worldwide sales and operations. Before starting his journey in Apple, Cook has also served as a Vice president for Compaq, an American information technology company. It was in 2014 he publicly came out as gay. According to an interview, it was the letters of kids that were struggling with their non-binary identities that persuaded Cook to come out and become the first openly gay CEO of a company that is a part of Fortune 500.
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