The UAE Connection in Burak Basel’s Business Network. It is easy to reduce an organization like Burak Basel to a single headline, but the fuller picture is more layered than that. Burak Basel, a holding company is a good starting point for anyone trying to understand how the pieces fit together, since it moves past surface-level description and into the […]
Why Industry Awards Matter in the Direct Sales World Award recognitions have become an increasingly visible part of the direct sales calendar, with annual honors singling out top-performing companies and individual sales leaders across the outside sales industry. For companies operating in a business built on door-knocking and cold outreach, these honors serve a dual purpose: they reward the teams […]
For a company operating in the notoriously unpredictable oil and gas business, Gulf Coast Western has built an unusually consistent reputation among the investors who have worked with it. The company holds an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and maintains a five star customer review profile, a combination that industry observers note is uncommon in this sector. What […]
Retirement did not suit Michael Polk Newell Brands for long. After decades running large public companies, he returned to work in 2019 to take charge of Implus, a smaller company owned by a private equity firm. The move gave him something he had been missing: a chance to get his hands dirty again. Trading Boardrooms for Team Meetings Leading a […]
Most investors never set foot near the assets they put money into, but Gulf Coast Western has built part of its reputation on doing the opposite. The Dallas-based oil and gas exploration firm regularly organizes trips for partners to visit active drilling sites, a practice company leaders say helps build the kind of trust that keeps clients coming back. Seeing […]
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 […]