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Gulf Coast Western Builds a Multi-State Energy Footprint

September 1, 2026
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Kelcy Warren’s East Texas Roots Shaped Pipeline Career

August 31, 2026
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Michael Polk on the Hidden Advantages of Private Companies

August 25, 2026
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From McGill to Vancouver: The Career Path of Yazan Al Homsi

August 25, 2026
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The UAE Connection in Burak Basel’s Business Network

August 21, 2026
July 19, 2026

Kelcy Warren’s $2 Billion Friday Night Deal

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 […]

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June 25, 2026

From a Tailor’s Workshop to Billions Managed: The Family Story Behind Jean-Pierre Conte’s Giving

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 […]

General 0 1 min read
June 22, 2026

From Algarve Real Estate to Industrial Hemp: The Pattern Behind Luciano de Vries’s Investments

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 […]

Business 0 1 min read
June 22, 2026

Armistice Capital Among Institutional Investors Targeting Small- and Mid-Cap Biopharma

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, […]

Finance 0 1 min read
June 11, 2026

Beyond the Business: Hassan Jameel’s Work on Advisory Boards and What It Reflects

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 […]

Sports 0 1 min read
June 11, 2026

How Karl Studer’s Agricultural Background Shapes His Business Leadership

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 […]

Business 0 1 min read
June 10, 2026

Kelcy Warren on Balance, Risk, and What It Takes to Run Pipelines

Kelcy Warren has a gift for explaining complex energy market dynamics in plain language. It is part of what has made him an effective leader of Energy Transfer for decades, and it comes through clearly in how he talks about the fundamentals of pipeline economics. The Two Ways a Pipeliner Makes Money Warren breaks the business model down to two […]

Business 0 1 min read
June 4, 2026

Judd Zebersky Shaped Jazwares Through Acquisitions and Vision

When Judd Zebersky acquired Kellytoy in 2020, he added Squishmallows to the Jazwares portfolio at what would turn out to be exactly the right moment. The huggable plush toys, each with a name, birthday, and backstory, were about to go viral on TikTok. More than 100 million units sold in a single year, with celebrity fans including Lady Gaga and […]

Business 0 1 min read
May 20, 2026

Inside the Mentorship Work of Greg Soros, Podcaster and Producer

Not many podcast producers turn their expertise into a systematic effort to develop new voices. Greg Soros, podcaster and founder of Austin-based Podcraft Media Lab, has done exactly that, building a mentorship initiative that has sent multiple creators into the industry with real traction. Soros runs the program out of the same operation that serves Fortune 500 clients and major […]

Business 0 1 min read
May 15, 2026

Michael Polk on Investor Relations and the Demands of Public Leadership

Leading a public company requires a CEO to wear many hats simultaneously. Michael Polk, the former CEO of Newell Brands, knows from experience how much of the job involves keeping investors informed and confident often at the expense of time spent inside the organization. Polk has built a career around transformative leadership at companies of varying sizes, culminating in his […]

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