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,...
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...
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...
Few surgeons in the United States have blended elite cosmetic practice with humanitarian commitment as deliberately as Dr. Andrew Jacono. A dual board-certified facial plastic surgeon based in New York, Dr. Jacono has spent decades directing his technical expertise toward patients who could never afford it, building a body of charitable work that spans domestic violence recovery and international pediatric missions.The origin of that commitment...
The podcast industry is reaching an inflection point. As AI tools become cheaper and more capable, the gap between high-volume automated content and professionally crafted audio is growing more obvious to listeners. Greg Soros saw this coming and structured Podcraft Media Lab accordingly.The Austin podcaster and entrepreneur describes his company's approach as strategic implementation rather than wholesale adoption a distinction that sounds...
Michael Polk has led companies across three distinct chapters of a career that spans some of the biggest names in consumer goods. His years at Kraft Foods and Unilever established his credentials. His run as CEO of Newell Brands, during which he helped grow the company's enterprise value from approximately $5 billion to more than $15 billion, cemented his reputation. His move to Implus LLC in 2020, however, may be the chapter that shapes how he...