Grid Modernization Investment Accelerates Across the U.S. Power Sector The United States power sector is moving through one of its largest capital investment cycles in decades, as utilities and their contracting partners work to modernize aging infrastructure while keeping pace with rising demand from data centers, electrification, and renewable generation. Spending on transmission and distribution work has climbed steadily over the past several...
Not every executive who spends a career at the top of public companies chooses to end up running a private one. Michael Polk did, and he says it has been one of the more rewarding decisions of his professional life.From Global Brands to a Private Portfolio CompanyPolk's resume reads like a tour of the consumer goods industry. He held leadership roles at Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods and Unilever before becoming CEO of Newell Brands in 2011,...
Energy companies live and die by trust, and few sectors face more scrutiny than oil and gas exploration. Gulf Coast Western, a Dallas-based firm focused on developing domestic reserves along the Gulf Coast, has built a reputation that stakeholders describe as unusually consistent across independent review channels.What the Better Business Bureau ShowsThe Better Business Bureau lists Gulf Coast Western with zero complaints, a 4.9-star average,...
Justin Nelson has spent his career at JP Morgan building a reputation for disciplined asset management, and he is now applying that same structured thinking to workplace inclusion. As Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, Nelson leads a group overseeing more than fifteen billion dollars in client assets. Those who work with him describe a leader who...
Most readers finish a children's book in an afternoon. Greg Soros spends months building the foundation underneath it. Over a writing career spanning sixteen years, Soros has developed a research process that looks less like traditional storytelling and more like fieldwork, and it shows in the finished stories he publishes.Classrooms as a Starting PointBefore drafting a manuscript, Soros heads into schools. He watches how kids talk to each...
Vancouver’s early-stage investment scene has attracted a new generation of venture capitalists who think in terms of systemic gaps rather than individual product opportunities. Among them, Yazan al Homsi has emerged as a consistent voice for investing in platforms that use technology to extend the reach of high-quality services — a thesis he has applied across healthcare, energy, and most recently, education.His early moves in AI-driven...
Private equity has a timing problem, and it works in JP Conte's favor. The median age of companies exited in the first half of 2025 sat around six years, while firms still held roughly eight and a half to nine years of inventory across their portfolios, per PwC.That backlog is the quiet pressure behind the megadeal headlines. JP Conte, managing partner of Lupine Crest Capital, watches it closely, because aging portfolios eventually become...
Business needs are not static, and payment solutions that served merchants well five years ago may be inadequate for the omnichannel, data-driven commerce environment that businesses navigate today. New York-based Thomas Priore has built Priority Commerce with this evolution in mind, investing in capabilities that serve businesses not just where they are today but where they are going.The payment landscape that modern businesses must navigate is...
The conversation around what makes a great CEO has grown more complicated in recent years. Stakeholder expectations, workforce dynamics, and market conditions have all shifted in ways that make the old playbook harder to apply. Few people are better placed to weigh in on those changes than Michael Polk Newell Brands, a veteran executive whose leadership career spans more than four decades and multiple corporate environments.From Delegation to...
The patients Dr. Andrew Jacono sees in his New York clinic and the children he treats on surgical missions in Southeast Asia may share little in circumstance, but they share a surgeon who approaches both settings with the same technical standard. That consistency across context is, in part, what Dr. Andrew Jacono has worked to instill in the surgeons he trains that expertise developed for one patient population is portable, and its reach is a...