Anesa Chaibi and Judy Murrah have joined a small club with historically few members — they are the newest women CEOs of Long Island publicly traded companies.

Murrah was promoted to CEO of Stony Brook biotechnology firm Applied DNA Sciences Inc. in June. Chaibi was recruited in February to lead Global Industrial Co. Inc., a billion-dollar Port Washington-based distributor of industrial supplies that is Long Island’s seventh-largest public company by revenue.

Women have made real gains in representation over the past decade, said Megan McConnell, a partner at Manhattan-based management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. and one of the authors of the company’s " Women in the Workplace " research report published in 2024.

“This has been most true at the top — women today make up 29% of C-sui

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