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Citing personal reasons, Jide Zeitlin stepped down as chairman and CEO of fashion company Tapestry Inc. last Tuesday, having remained in the chief executive position for less than a year.

With his resignation, there are now only four black CEOs among the Fortune 500.

A total of 18 black CEOs have featured in the Fortune 500 since 1999 – peaking at a concurrent six in 2012. Also notable is that all four remaining CEOs are male; following the departure of Ursula Burns from Xerox in 2017 and Mary Winston from Bed Bath & Beyond in 2019, there are no black women serving as Fortune 500 CEOs.

The lack of black representation in business leadership is an increasingly visible issue, and one which is not restricted to America; only one CEO out of the FTSE 100 is black, and none feature in Canada’s S&P/TSX 60.

Though the corporate world has largely committed to combating racial inequity following the recent high-profile killings of George Floyd, Ahm