the 2014 American Banker Community Banker of the Year and was recognized as the 2013 Ernst & Young Florida Entrepreneur of the Year in the financial services category. In 2014 SNL named C1 the 6th fastest growing bank in the country over the prior five years. C1 Bank was acquired by Bank OZK in July 2016 generating a 47% return for its IPO investors in less than 24 months. After selling C1 Bank in 2016, Burgess formed TRB Development with his business partner, Jon Carlon. TRB Development is focused on "acquiring and developing residential home sites to deliver great value-priced, move-in-ready new homes." In 2018, Burgess purchased a controlling stake in Neptune Flood Insurance. Burgess and co-founder Jim Albert offer residential and commercial flood insurance. Neptune filed a patent for its Artificial Intelligence engine in 2019 for which it was awarded the Novarica Impact award for Data & Analytics. Neptune has grown from 50 policies in January 2018 to over 35,000 in 2020. "It had $17 million in premium at the end of 2019, and Burgess projects $40 million to $50 million in premium, by the end of 2020 — even with the coronavirus-based business slowdown." Neptune Flood Insurance was named to the CNBC Upstart 100 in 2018 of 100 promising start-ups to watch. In August 2022, Neptune Insurance ranked 205 out of 5,000 on Inc. Magazine's fastest growing company list. On January 12, 2023, USA Today asked Trevor Burgess's opinion about atmospheric rivers. "Unfortunately, these sorts of flooding events are the new normal and can no longer be considered a one-in-100-year sort of event," Burgess said. Personal life Trevor Burgess became the first openly gay CEO of a bank on the New York Stock Exchange when C1 Financial, which is based in St Petersburg, Florida, made a $44.7 million public offering in August 2014. In the company's initial public offering filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission he disclosed that his husband, Gary Hess, held some shares thus confirming his sexuality in the disclosure. Burgess and Hess have a daughter, Logan. He has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek's "Out on the Street" and in the book, "The G Quotient-Why Gay Executives are Excelling as Leaders." In 2013 he won Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award in Florida's financial services category. In 2015 the Financial Times in conjunction with OUTstanding, named Mr. Burgess one of the leading global