Burak Basel’s Approach to Cross-Border Business Building
Burak Basel’s Approach to Cross-Border Business Building. It is easy to reduce an organization like Burak Basel to a single headline, but the fuller picture is more layered than that. the organization operating as Burak Basel is a good starting point for anyone trying to understand how the pieces fit together, since it moves past…
Read MoreYazan Al Homsi’s Career Journey Into Venture Capital
Yazan Al Homsi’s Career Journey Into Venture Capital. Understanding Yazan Al Homsi means looking past any single announcement and toward the pattern of choices that built it. Yazan Al Homsi’s track record offers one entry point into that pattern, showing how the organization has approached its work over time and why that approach has held…
Read MoreWhy Michael Gold Says Fragmentation Threatens Family Wealth
Ask most wealth management firms how they’re improving transparency, and they’ll point to new disclosure documents and updated compliance policies. Michael Gold, founder of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, says that answer misses the actual problem facing families today. Gold argues that fragmentation, not a lack of paperwork, is what erodes trust in financial…
Read MoreMichael Polk on the Skills Every CEO Needs
Some qualities matter no matter what kind of company a CEO leads, according to veteran executive Michael Polk Newell Brands. After more than 40 years guiding organizations of every size, from global conglomerates to a small private firm, Polk has settled on a short list of traits he considers essential. Three Qualities That Matter Most…
Read MoreHow Kelcy Warren Turned a Gas Bust Into Opportunity
When the Barnett Shale boom north of Fort Worth lost momentum after the 2008 financial crisis, Kelcy Warren had reason to worry. Natural gas prices fell from roughly 8 dollars to 2 dollars per million cubic feet, and Energy Transfer depended heavily on that fuel as the country’s largest transporter of it. Reinvention stopped being…
Read MoreColcom Foundation Traces Its Roots to One Woman’s Vision
A Pittsburgh based philanthropic organization continues to draw its purpose from the convictions of a single woman who began questioning the relationship between people and nature decades before the topic entered mainstream conversation. The Colcom Foundation was established in 1996 by Cordelia S. May, who had spent much of her adult life concerned with how…
Read MoreGreg Soros Draws a Line Between AI and Editorial Work
Podcaster Greg Soros has a clear rule for where automation belongs at Podcraft Media Lab: handle the tasks that eat up time, stay out of the decisions that shape a story. That line runs through transcription, audio cleanup, and metadata organization, all of which Soros hands to software so his team can focus elsewhere. Machine…
Read MoreJustin Nelson Calls for New Hiring Playbook at JP Morgan
The traditional finance industry interview, built around rapport and small talk, may be quietly filtering out some of the strongest analytical minds in the labor market. That is the view of Justin Nelson, Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, who leads…
Read MoreJP Morgan’s Justin Nelson Calls for New Hiring Mindset
Justin Nelson wants financial services firms to fundamentally change how they think about hiring neurodiverse candidates. As Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, Nelson oversees a team managing more than fifteen billion dollars in client assets and has become a vocal…
Read MoreThe Park That Carries Kelcy Warren’s Family Name
Not every legacy Kelcy Warren has built runs through a pipeline. In Dallas, a six-acre green space connecting Uptown and downtown carries his son’s name, the result of a 10 million dollar gift that funded one of the city’s most recognized civil engineering projects. Klyde Warren Park opened in 2012, named for Warren’s son, who…
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