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BNY Mellon’s Rob McClenaghan-Harrop: ‘I intentionally omitted names of gay bars in front of colleagues’

The banker on why coming out at work isn’t a ‘one-time thing’

Rob McClenaghan-Harrop: ’ Every interaction with a new person usually involves coming out all over again’
Rob McClenaghan-Harrop: ’ Every interaction with a new person usually involves coming out all over again’

Financial News’s inaugural Pride of Finance list celebrates coming out at work stories from senior figures who have led by example to champion LGBTQIA+ inclusion. See the full list here.

Rob McClenaghan-Harrop, director of corporate trust billing oversight at BNY Mellon, thinks his sexuality doesn’t define him, but that even if one person is inspired to be themselves by reading his experience, then coming out is worth it.

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