Neil Giuliano

Neil Giuliano serves as President/CEO of Greater Phoenix Leadership (GPL), which for fifty years has been the forum for CEO business leaders to collaborate with the government, education and philanthropy sectors to create and sustain a safe, healthy and prosperous Arizona. Giuliano joined GPL in late 2015 and has expanded CEO engagement on Education, Community Infrastructure and Social Impact issues.

From 2010-2015, Giuliano was President & CEO of San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF), one of the largest AIDS service organizations in the world, and led the model of care transition fromsickness and disease management to one incorporating health and wellness for 22,000 patient visits per year. Prior to his work as a health care CEO, he was President & CEO of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and executive producer of GLAAD Media Awards from 2005-2009. Leading the third largest LGBTQ advocacy organization in the US, he expanded GLAAD’s visibility and anti-defamation work to include sports and advertising media and the GLAAD Media Awards were broadcast on the BRAVO TV Network.

Before becoming a Chief Executive Officer, Giuliano was councilmember, 1990-1994, and then the youngest person ever elected mayor of Tempe, Arizona, a post he held from 1994-2004. He was the first directly-elected openly gay mayor of a US city and Tempe was named an All-American City in 2003, considered the “Oscar” for local government achievement. Concurrent to holding public office, Giuliano taught a Personal Leadership course as Faculty Associate and worked at Arizona State University, includingas Director of Federal Government Relations and Co-Director of the October 13, 2004 Presidential Debate between President George Bush and Senator John Kerry.

Giuliano serves on the board of directors of Visit Phoenix (2025-27 Chair), the national LGBTQ+ Victory Institute, Partnership for Economic Innovation and Valley of the Sun United Way. He is author of “The Campaign Within: A Mayor’s Private Journey to Public Leadership” (Magnus Books 2012) and received numerous awards and honors for his work in public policy, business advocacy and community activism including Tempe Humanitarian of the Year in 2014, 2017 Most Admired Leader Award from Phoenix Business Journal and in November 2017 was named the 69^th Arizona Man of the Year by Valley Leadership. He served as Distinguished Lecturer at the William J. Clinton School of Public Service at the Clinton Presidential Library and as an endurance cyclist completed the 545-mile/seven-day San Francisco to Los Angeles bike ride six times. He resides in Tempe, Arizona.

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