Look through Gulf Coast Western reviews and one name comes up again and again: Matthew Fleeger, the company’s CEO, president, and director since 2009. His path to the corner office was not a straight line. Fleeger began his oil and gas career in the mid 1980s after graduating from Southern Methodist University with a business […]
Colcom Foundation leans on several major international assessments to explain why it funds conservation work. Taken together, the numbers describe a planet under heavy strain. The 2019 IPBES Global Assessment, produced by an intergovernmental science body, found that about 1 million plant and animal species face extinction, more than at any earlier point in human […]
Most people who create something seen by millions eventually become public figures themselves, but Jean Chalopin has taken a different path. A recent feature in BBN Times explores how a single French proverb has shaped the way he thinks about fame, privacy, and his own story. The saying comes from the fabulist Jean-Pierre Claris de […]
“A season like this one rewards reps who did their homework,” said Garth Massey, co-founder and president of sales at Grit Marketing, describing the company’s approach to this year’s unusually active tick season. “The data is public. The difference is whether you can explain it clearly enough that someone trusts you to fix the problem.” […]
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 […]