David Bohnett started GeoCities, a pioneering web hosting service where users could create their own websites.

Robyn Streisand founded the Mixx, a brand strategy company.

Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, where he also worked as the CEO until its sale to eBay in 2002.

Anthony Romero became the first gay man and Latino to serve as Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Chris Hughes was a co-founder of Facebook.

Nick Denton founded Gawker, an online media company.

Media mogul Harvey Levin launched TMZ, a news company focused on celebrity culture.

Peter Arvai co-founded Prezi, a presentation software company.

Grindr, the online dating application for gay men, was founded by Joel Simkhai.

Theoretical neuroscientist Vivienne Ming co-founded Socos Labs, a company that draws on machine learning and neuroscience to solve social problems.

Claudia Brind-Woody, the Vice President and Managing Director for Global Intellectual Property Licensing at IBM, was given the Out & Equal Trailblazer Award.

Todd Sears founded Out Leadership, an LGBTQ business advisory company.

Thomas Sanchez and his husband Anthony Shop founded Social Driver, a digital creative agency.

Jason Grenfell-Gardner became the CEO and President of Teligent, a pharmaceutical company.

Philanthropist and investor Jennifer Pritzker came out as a trans woman, making her the first trans billionaire.

Tim Burgess of C1 Financial became the first openly gay CEO of a bank on the New York Stock Exchange.

Tim Cook, the chief executive officer of Apple Inc., came out as gay, making him the first chief executive of a Fortune 500 company to do so.

President Barack Obama named Megan Smith the third Chief Technology Officer of the United States.

Businesswoman and star of Pose Angelica Ross founded TransTech Social Enterprise.

Cliff Hopkins was brought on as the chief marketing officer at Instagram.

Joey Gonzalez was named CEO of Barry’s Boot Camp.

Hayley Sudbury founded WERKIN, an analytics company that promotes diversity in hiring practices.

Shamina Singh founded the Center for Inclusive Growth at Mastercard.

One of the most powerful publicly gay men and Latinos on Wall Street, R. Martin Chavez became the chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs.

Appointed as the CEO and President of the Land O’Lakes, Beth Ford became the first publicly gay woman to be the CEO of an American Fortune 500 company.

Stacey Friedman, general counsel at JP Morgan Chase, won the Jack Watters Corporate Leadership Award from SAGE.

Jim Fitterly became the first openly gay CEO of a large industrial company, Dow Inc.

Eric Dube became the President and CEO of Retrophin.

Louis Vega took on the role of President of Dow North America.

Lisa Davis became the Managing Director & D10X Co-Head at Citi’s Institutional Client Group.