Community Bank

Vice Chairman


At Community Bank and at all of our investments around the world - we strive to hire the very best people - and we realized early on that to compete for the very best talent on a global scale we needed to not only have inclusive policies but inclusive practices. As an openly gay entrepreneur I have the exciting job of growing and revitalizing companies. With diversity of talent comes diversity of ideas and the ability to win in the marketplace.

Trevor Burgess is a lead investor in and Director of Community Bank, Tampa Bay's leading community bank with offices in Tampa, Riverview, Bradenton and Lakewood Ranch.   Trevor is a Partner at Artesia Capital Management a private equity firm with investments in Brazil and the United States.   Before joining Artesia, Trevor spent ten years at Morgan Stanley were he was last a Managing Director in Global Capital Markets leading over 100 investment banking transactions such as the IPO for Chipotle.  Before joining Morgan Stanley, he was a management consultant at Monitor Company the Cambridge, Massachusetts firm associated with Michael Porter.   Trevor has been featured in Bloomberg Magazine' s Out on the Street and in the book, The G Quotient-Why Gay Executives are Excelling as Leaders.   Trevor graduated from Dartmouth College in 1994.   Trevor and his husband of 14 years, Gary Hess, have a one year old daughter named Logan.