Trevor Burgess is an American billionaire entrepreneur and technologist, born in 1972. He is highly educated, having graduated from Dartmouth College in 1994.

Burgess began his career as a management consultant at Monitor Company before spending ten years at Morgan Stanley as an investment banker in New York, Los Angeles, and London. He famously executed over $50 billion in transactions, including the 2006 IPO of Chipotle Mexican Grill.

• Core Company: Neptune Flood Insurance.
• Role: CEO and Majority Shareholder.
• Origins: First openly gay CEO of a publicly traded bank in U.S. history.

Trevor Burgess’s career is marked by two major successful pivots. In 2012, he became the CEO of C1 Financial, taking the bank public in 2014 and later selling it for over $250 million.

In 2018, he joined Neptune Flood Insurance as its controlling shareholder and became CEO in 2019. Under his leadership, Neptune became the largest private flood insurance company in the US, utilizing AI and advanced data sets to issue policies in under two minutes. This rapid scaling of a traditional industry into a high-tech platform officially made him a self-made billionaire by 2026.

• Strategic Achievement: Scaled Neptune to handle policies across all 50 U.S. states.
• Industry Influence: A leading advocate for LGBTQ+ authentic leadership in the financial sector.