Martine Rothblatt (1954 - )

​On this the 54th anniversary of Stonewall, the Greenwich riots that were the catalyst to the modern gay rights movement, it seems appropriate to honor business leader Martine Rothblattt, who represents how far the LGBTQIA+ community has come since the Sixties, when so many folks endured hidden lives of fear and shame. Rothblatt is the founder/CEO of United Therapeutics, the first publicly traded biotech company, identified as a Public Benefit Company (PBC). Under Rothblatt’s leadership, UT has gained FDA approval for 5 drugs and is working toward the development of novel therapies and an unlimited supply of manufactured organs for transplantation. Also the founder of SiriusXM, she is a lawyer, author and is now amazingly working on digital immortality through artificial intelligence. Together with Bina - her beloved wife of 41 years - Rothblatt came out at age 40 as transgender, changed her name and became a forthright advocate for LGBTQIA rights.