Dow (No. 37) CEO Jim Fitterling has beat cancer and was named No. 1 of the “Top 100 LGBT+ Executives” on “The Financial Times‘ annual “OUTstanding in Business” list in 2018. He also appears frequently in the media as a representative for Dow.
In 2014 on National Coming Out Day, Fitterling came out to 53,000 people in a company meeting. Since then, he has been an advocate for diversity and inclusion in corporate and educational settings. In March 2019, he was featured in the Bloomberg Businessweek article “How Dow Chemical Got Woke”.