Most companies chasing growth in podcasting add more shows, more staff, and more output. Greg Soros did the opposite. After leaving a senior producer role at a major media company in 2020, he built Podcraft Media Lab around a single idea: fewer projects, done better, beat a crowded slate of average ones. Five years later, […]
Before he became a voice in the debate over artificial intelligence and government reform, Justin Fulcher spent years inside the Pentagon trying to fix how the department bought technology. That experience, serving as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense focused on acquisition reform, now informs much of what he says publicly about where […]
A career spanning nearly thirty years tends to change how a person keeps score. For Justin Nelson, Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, the scoreboard stopped being about quarterly numbers a long time ago. Three Decades of Private Banking Nelson leads the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team out of Connecticut, overseeing more […]
A conservation easement does not fence off land from its owner, and it does not require a sale. Instead, it is a voluntary legal agreement between a landowner and a land trust or government agency that permanently limits how a property can be developed or used, protecting its scenic, agricultural, or ecological value while leaving […]
Client relationships rarely stay static over twenty years, and Justin Nelson has built much of his JP Morgan career around that reality. The Managing Director, who leads the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at JP Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, now regularly advises the adult children of clients he first met decades ago. […]
More than 100 survivors of domestic violence have had their faces rebuilt by Dr. Andrew Jacono, a dual board-certified facial plastic surgeon whose Park Avenue practice sits alongside a decade-spanning record of pro bono reconstructive work. His involvement runs through the FACE TO FACE project, operated by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive […]
Private markets are moving from a niche allocation to a core part of wealthy families’ portfolios, and Michael Gold Westport sees the shift as one of the defining stories in wealth management this year. About 83 percent of advisers now say offering a robust suite of private asset options has become essential to serving clients […]
Historic buildings and sites do not preserve themselves, and funding for that work often falls through the cracks between government budgets and private development interests. Colcom Foundation has stepped into that gap in the Pittsburgh region, funding preservation projects alongside its better known environmental grants for close to thirty years. Colcom Foundation supports several special […]
Manufacturing construction in the United States entered territory that most economists hadn’t seen in decades. Real spending on factory-floor projects roughly doubled between late 2021 and mid-2023, and a specific segment drove nearly all of that expansion. Computer, electronic, and electrical manufacturing, long a marginal share of industrial construction, nearly quadrupled in real spending after […]
Five Traits That Define Vancouver’s Top Business Leaders Vancouver’s business community has built a distinct reputation within Canada, blending resource-sector expertise with an increasingly international investor base. Those who thrive in this environment tend to share a handful of recognizable traits, according to observers who track the city’s finance and entrepreneurship scene across multiple economic […]