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 […]
A stretch of downtown Dallas that once sat divided by a sunken freeway now functions as one of the city’s most popular gathering spots, and much of the credit traces back to a single gift from energy executive Kelcy Warren. In 2012, Warren donated 10 million dollars toward the creation of Klyde Warren Park, a 5.2-acre green space built to […]
Nearly thirty years after its founding, the Colcom Foundation continues to operate according to the principles laid out by its founder, Cordelia Scaife May. The organization has distributed more than $500 million in grants since 1996, much of it tied directly to May’s original concerns about population growth and environmental balance. A Philosophy Rooted in Balance May believed that human […]
Most wealth management firms grow by adding specialists: another tax expert here, another insurance consultant there. Michael Gold takes the opposite approach. The founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, built his practice around what he calls orchestration rather than accumulation of advisors. Instead of expanding a family’s roster of professionals, Michael Gold’s team coordinates the specialists […]
Some business deals happen over months of negotiation. Kelcy Warren‘s purchase of Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy’s natural gas liquids assets happened over a weekend. Facing a narrow window to close the roughly $2 billion transaction in March 2011, Warren convened an emergency board meeting on a Friday night. The board reviewed and approved the deal that evening so Energy Transfer […]
Jean-Pierre Conte’s philanthropy starts with a story that predates his career by a generation. His father, Pierre, left postwar Lyon, France, and built a life around a tailor’s workshop in New York; his mother, Isabel, left Cuba. Neither parent had the chance to attend college, yet both carried outsized hopes for their children. That inheritance of ambition shaped the foundation […]
Luciano de Vries has built a portfolio across multiple countries and sectors by applying the same underlying method to each: identify where the real value of a market diverges from the narrative assigned to it, enter before that divergence closes, and hold through the volatility that tends to precede a market catching up to its own fundamentals. Industrial hemp is […]
Armistice Capital, which manages more than $7 billion in assets, has established a disclosed portfolio oriented toward small- and mid-cap biopharmaceutical companies, particularly those developing treatments for rare diseases, neurological disorders, and cardiovascular conditions. The fund’s 13F filings show positions in companies that occupy a market capitalization range typically characterized by higher clinical and regulatory risk than large-cap pharmaceutical companies, […]
Hassan Jameel spent formative years in Japan — high school, university at Sophia, and two years inside Toyota’s Kaizen division. He later earned an MBA from London Business School. Those two experiences, Japanese operational philosophy and European management education, sit underneath much of how he runs ALJ’s Saudi Arabia operations. His current advisory roles track those same institutional threads. He […]
The agricultural communities of Idaho have produced a distinctive breed of business leader: patient, practical, deeply familiar with the consequences of decisions that play out over years rather than quarters, and possessed of a philosophical humility that comes from operating in close relationship with forces that no human can fully control. Idaho business leader Karl Studer carries this heritage into […]