Retirement did not last long for Michael Polk. After leaving Newell Brands in 2019, where he had spent years overseeing a portfolio of household names, Polk stepped back into the corporate world in 2020 to lead Implus LLC, a private fitness accessories company backed by Berkshire Partners. The move surprised some observers, given how different a sixteen-brand portfolio company is […]
The numbers behind Kelcy Warren’s pipeline company tell their own story of growth. Energy Transfer, which Kelcy Warren co-founded with Ray Davis in 1996, generated about $1 billion in revenue by late August 2003. That figure climbed to $17 billion in 2012 and eventually reached nearly $90 billion at the end of 2022, a jump of 33 percent from the […]
A surgical technique only changes a field once other surgeons can reliably reproduce it. That step, often overlooked in coverage of cosmetic surgery innovation, has been central to how the extended deep-plane facelift moved from one practice in New York toward wider adoption across facial plastic surgery. Dr. Andrew Jacono has conducted master classes and delivered lectures at international plastic […]
RingMD, the company Justin Fulcher founded after his travels through Southeast Asia, was never just a concept sketched on paper. It functioned as a full telehealth system that went well beyond a simple video call between doctor and patient, touching triage, communication, and data integration alike across every stage of the patient experience from first symptom to follow up. On […]
A company that asks investors to join long-term oil and gas partnerships needs more than a slick website to earn trust. For Gulf Coast Western, that trust appears to come largely from the volume and specificity of feedback left by people who have actually invested. The Dallas-based firm explores, develops, and acquires domestic oil and gas reserves, primarily across the […]