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Michael Gold believes has been largely overlooked. His firm, Gold Family Wealth, based in Westport, Connecticut, was built specifically to serve that middle group. Gold Family Wealth focuses on households with $20 million to $150 million in net worth. Michael Gold, the firm’s founder and CEO, argues these families face nearly the same complexity as […]

Across a career spanning Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods, Unilever, and Newell Rubbermaid, Michael Polk has built a reputation as an executive who thrives on organizational change. Each stop along the way added a new layer to what he now describes as his personal leadership blueprint. Polk has often pointed back to his earliest days […]

Cosmetic surgery has a reputation problem. Ask most people to picture a facelift and they will describe skin pulled so tight it looks unnatural. Dr. Andrew Jacono has spent two decades arguing that this outcome is a flaw in surgical technique, not an unavoidable side effect of aging well, and his patient outcomes back up […]

For years, cosmetic surgery patients accepted a tradeoff. A facelift could make them look younger, but it often came with a stretched, wind tunnel appearance that told everyone what had happened. Dr. Andrew Jacono, a New York facial plastic surgeon, built his career around eliminating that tradeoff, abandoning the skin-tightening approach that had defined facelifts […]

Picking the wrong wealth manager at a critical financial moment can cost a family millions. Michael Gold, who founded Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has spent more than 25 years helping families avoid exactly that outcome by teaching them how to evaluate advisors before committing. His core insight is counterintuitive: the most useful information […]

For anyone considering a partnership with an oil and gas company, independent reviews can be one of the most reliable indicators of what to expect. Gulf Coast Western reviews, drawn from sources including the Better Business Bureau and the company’s own partner testimonials, paint a consistent picture: a firm that takes transparency and communication seriously. […]

When investors look at oil and gas companies, trust is the first filter. In an industry where projects can span years and returns are never guaranteed; the character of the managing partner matters as much as the geology. Gulf Coast Western, a Dallas-based firm founded in 1970, has generated a body of partner feedback that […]

In 2023, Kelcy Warren made history at his alma mater. The Energy Transfer founder delivered a $12 million gift to the University of Texas-Arlington, the largest single donation in the school’s history. The funds were designated to advance the university’s resource and energy engineering program, a field Warren described as critical to meeting Texas’s growing […]