When Greg Soros left his senior producer role at a major media company in 2020, he stood at a crossroads familiar to many in the audio industry. He could have chased scale, launching a sprawling podcast network to compete for market share. Instead, the Portland native chose a narrower path, founding Podcraft Media Lab in […]

Not every oil and gas company gets mentioned in the same breath as a children’s cancer charity, but Gulf Coast Western reviews often bring up its partnership with the Sadie Keller Foundation. The foundation was started by Sadie Keller, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age seven and missed her second and third […]

At Implus LLC, senior leaders do not simply set direction and step back. They stay close to the work, often serving as what Michael Polk Newell Brands calls player-coaches, guiding teams through daily decisions rather than issuing instructions from a distance. Polk, who became CEO of the fitness accessories company in 2020 after a career […]

Long before he became known for the extended deep-plane facelift, Dr. Andrew Jacono was working through one of the more demanding training paths in facial plastic surgery. He earned his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1996, then entered a residency in otolaryngology at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, eventually […]

Retirement did not last long for Michael Polk. After stepping down from his role as chief executive of Newell Brands, Polk spent a few years away from full time leadership before returning to the workforce in 2019. His next move surprised some observers: rather than joining another large public company, he took the top job […]

In a wide ranging but brief interview, Kelcy Warren touched on nearly every part of what it means to be honored by an industry he has spent decades helping to build. The Energy Transfer executive chairman spoke with Hart Energy staff member Jordan Soto during the company’s 50th anniversary Hall of Fame event at the […]

For Kelcy Warren, the 2012 purchase of Sunoco carried weight that went beyond the balance sheet. His father spent his career as a pipeline field hand at the company and considered it his own, even though he never owned a share of it. Kelcy Warren‘s father died in 1992, two decades before Energy Transfer closed […]

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 […]

Power Infrastructure Industry Outlook: Steady Demand, Selective Growth Analysts covering the power infrastructure sector describe an environment of steady, multi-year demand rather than the boom-and-bust cycles that characterized earlier decades of utility construction. Grid hardening, renewable interconnection, and replacement of aging transmission assets have combined to create a durable backlog for large specialty contractors, one […]