## Metadata - Author: [[laura-lorenzetti|Laura Lorenzetti]] - Full Title:: Apple’s CEO Tim Cook Has These 7 Openly Gay Leaders to Thank - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Data contracts|Data contracts]], [[Sin machirulos hay paraiso. una charla heterofriendly sobre management|Sin Machirulos Hay Paraiso]] - URL:: https://fortune.com/2014/10/30/apples-ceo-tim-cook-has-these-7-openly-gay-leaders-to-thank/amp/ - Finished date:: [[2023-01-31]] ## Highlights > there has not been a currently-serving openly gay CEO of a *Fortune 500* company. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqyhfpaa5a9keycxz1g3bh34)) > Browne led energy giant [BP](https://fortune.com/company/bp/amp/) 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](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqyhjvaqp4ktsmhp87s0nsan)) > Burgess worked as an investment banker at [Morgan Stanley](https://fortune.com/company/morgan-stanley/amp/) for 10 years ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqyhn05pkkd74wmzxzxf0dp7)) > I realized there were plenty of gay executives there, including a group of fairly senior people,” [he told the New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/business/two-publicly-gay-men-buck-a-trend-in-the-ceo-office.html?ref=business). “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](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqyhmwb5jh7wynfyqqyz1kz8)) > 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](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqyhnmefcs2kgf9m4cnycmvv)) > 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](http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/gay-ceos/). “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](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqyhntpkzh4tbykyrwjzkh7j))