Trevor Burgess is an American entrepreneur. He was an investment banker and CEO of C1 Financial. He is the founder of TRB Development and the president, majority shareholder and CEO of Neptune Flood Insurance. Early life Burgess has been openly gay since his teenage years. He graduated in 1994 from Dartmouth College. He was a management consultant at Monitor Company, a Cambridge, Massachusetts firm, associated with Michael Porter. Burgess spent ten years at Morgan Stanley as an investment banker in New York, Los Angeles and London, including "executing more than $50 billion in transactions for major clients, including Chipotle Mexican Grill, which he helped take public in 2006." His last appointment was as a Managing Director in Global Capital Markets leading over 100 investment banking transactions such as the IPO for Chipotle. He then went on to be a partner at Artesia Capital Management, a private equity firm with investments in Brazil and the U.S." Industry environment for LGBT workers In 2012 the Human Rights Campaign noted it was still an issue to be LGBT in the workplace as there were no openly gay CEOs in the Fortune 1000 and "U.S. Companies can still legally fire a worker for being gay in 29 states, and many subtle biases remain in the workplace." Former BP chief John Browne noted that homophobic corporate cultures and board of directors keep people in the closet with corporations level of conservativeness rising with the company's size. Todd Sears, founder of an annual LGBT leadership summit for the finance industry noted it was common for executives to not come out until they retired, or even be outed when they died. The 'Wall Street journal' reported in March 2014 that it was still common for LGBT workers to stay closeted. On becoming the first openly gay banking CEO, Burgess told CNBC, “If that can help the next generation of leaders come out and feel comfortable being authentic, like kids who are in college and considering careers in finance or being entrepreneurs, I’m really lucky.” Businesses Burgess is the founder and CEO of the former C1 Bank, and its bank holding company, C1 Financial (NYSE: BNK). Burgess served as a director of C1 after acquiring control of C1's predecessor bank, Community Bank of Manatee, in December 2009. C1 Bank was a $1.7bn bank focused on the needs of entrepreneurs, and had 31 offices throughout Florida. Burgess was named