With expertise in mind
Most families evaluate wealth managers through the lens of reputation and performance. Michael Gold, who leads Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, believes that lens misses what actually matters: how an advisor operates before a client ever commits. Gold has spent over 25 years working with entrepreneurs, business owners, and families managing multigenerational wealth. The […]
Kelcy Warren did not drill the wells that unlocked America’s shale boom, but he built much of the infrastructure that made it matter. As executive chairman of Energy Transfer, Warren oversaw the construction and acquisition of pipeline systems that connected new production from the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, Bakken, and Marcellus formations to markets across […]
Luciano de Vries does not wait for consensus before taking a position. He looks for the gap between where regulation is pointing and where market pricing currently sits, then moves while that gap is still open. It is a discipline he has applied across transport assets in Poland, real estate in Portugal, and now industrial […]
Michael Polk spent decades at the top of some of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. After tenures at Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods, Unilever, and a run as CEO of Newell Brands from 2011 to 2019, Polk retired briefly before discovering that his appetite for leadership wasn’t finished. What came next surprised even him: […]
A 5.2-acre green deck park sitting atop a sunken freeway in central Dallas exists in large part because of a $10 million commitment from Kelcy Warren. The Energy Transfer Executive Chairman made that donation in 2012, providing the catalytic private funding that helped transform a divided stretch of downtown Dallas into one of the city’s […]
Building a successful business is valuable. Contributing to the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem is rarer and, in some respects, more important. London-based entrepreneur Burak Basel has been deliberate about playing both roles, using his platform and experience to support emerging entrepreneurs and contribute to the conversation about how international business can be done better. Through his […]
Government agencies have no shortage of processes that consume time without adding value. Filing, sorting, routing, verifying, logging, and reporting occupy significant portions of the working day for federal employees at every level. Technology entrepreneur and former Defense Department advisor Justin Fulcher has argued that this is where artificial intelligence should enter the picture: not […]
Trust is not easily earned in the oil and gas industry. Yet Gulf Coast Western reviews consistently describe a company that has done the hard work of building credibility over decades. Founded in 1970 as a modest Gulf Coast operation, the firm has grown into a multi-state enterprise with thousands of acres available for development […]
Kelcy Warren, the billionaire executive chairman of Energy Transfer, received a Hart Energy Hall of Fame honor in December 2023 and used the recognition as an occasion to speak plainly about his views on the energy industry’s future. The Hart Energy LIVE interview captured Warren expressing both appreciation for his fellow inductees and a message […]
The early-stage funding environment in British Columbia has changed materially over the past several years — with more institutional capital, more active angel networks, and more structured support mechanisms creating a foundation for startup activity that was substantially thinner a decade ago. Vancouver-based investor Yazan Al Homsi has explained this shift in terms of both […]
