Tail-winds and cheers!
Before he took charge of his father’s oil company, Matthew Fleeger built and sold a business in a completely different field. That experience, according to a 2021 CBN profile, shaped the way he now runs Gulf Coast Western. Fleeger earned a business degree focused on finance and marketing from Southern Methodist University in 1985. He […]
Brand language in home services has changed noticeably in the past few years. Where older companies leaned on aggressive imagery of pests and eradication, newer entrants speak about serenity, sanctuary and peace of mind. It is a shift worth examining, both for what it says about customers and for what it asks of providers. Language […]
Leading a publicly traded payments company from Manhattan while its operational core sits in the Atlanta suburbs says something about how modern fintech firms are organized. New York-based chief executive Thomas Priore is one executive who has made that arrangement work, leading Priority Technology Holdings, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker PRTH. According to […]
Long before artificial intelligence dominated startup pitches, Glenn Lurie watched another technology wave reshape an industry. Those lessons now inform how he screens companies at the San Francisco venture firm where he is General Partner, according to reporting in The AI Journal. The story begins with the Motorola ROKR in 2005, a phone that included […]
Not every company that wants to go public should, and Gregg Jaclin has built a business model that reflects that view. The founder of Exchange Listing LLC screens prospective clients closely, according to a BBN Times feature on how he runs his listing advisory practice. “It’s really about making sure you’re betting on the jockey,” […]
A single decision reshaped the trajectory of Michael Polk’s career leaving Procter & Gamble after three years to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School. Polk had spent his early professional years in manufacturing and research roles, first supervising a papermaking machine in Pennsylvania and then working in research and development in Cincinnati, Ohio. He […]
Rocket Doctor connects physicians with patients through a digital marketplace that pairs virtual consultations with AI-assisted intake and documentation tools. On August 18, the company added a new layer to that model: a provider network agreement giving it contracted access across commercial insurance, Medicare Advantage, workers’ compensation and auto medical claims in the United States. […]
Highly credentialed professionals surround many wealthy families, yet those families often lack a clear view of how the pieces of their financial lives connect. Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has built his career around this overlooked problem. Gold argues that competence was never the issue. A family’s […]
Mohammed Jameel and Prince Turki Al-Faisal: A Friendship Traced to 2006 When Prince Turki Al-Faisal spoke at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s 20th anniversary reception for The Jameel Gallery, he didn’t start with the gallery. He started with an invitation, extended to him personally two decades earlier for the gallery’s original inauguration. Prince Turki Al-Faisal […]
Justin Fulcher had barely settled back into life in Charleston, South Carolina when COVID-19 arrived in early 2020, upending assumptions about how healthcare should be delivered. Telehealth, a concept he had spent nearly a decade convincing skeptical doctors to adopt across Asia, suddenly stopped being optional for providers around the world. Justin Fulcher responded by […]
