Jay Biles is business executive; Vice President of Human Resources and the Organizational Development Consultant at First Union, and co-chair of GALEA, First Union's Gay and Lesbian Employee Association. He has expanded First Union's Equal Employment Opportunity Policy to include sexual orientation and to implement LGBT issues into the company's diversity training workshops, and had domestic-partner benefits approved and added to company policy; one of the 2001 gfn.com 25, a listing by the Gay Financial Network of the 25 most influential out gay and lesbian executives in corporate America.