Brook champions LGBTQ+ employees and works closely with DEI leaders within Waters to create and encourage the company to drive inclusion. Alongside his day job, Brook is the co-Founder and co-Chair of the Waters Pride Circle, an Employee Resource Group that supports the LGBTQ+ community and promotes inclusion as part of the broader Waters diversity and inclusion initiative. He has helped grow the Circle to over 100 LGBTQ+ and ally employees, implemented company changes, including the introduction of employee gender transition guidelines, ensured the availability of best-in-class benefits policies for LGBTQ+ employees and introduced gender-neutral bathrooms. In 2009, Brook became the first openly gay CIO of the White House and CIO for the President of the United States. In addition, Brook and his husband are actively involved with the Trevor Project, a non-profit focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth.
