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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Every new wave of technology brings its share of overpromising, and government AI is no exception. Justin Fulcher, a technology founder and former Pentagon advisor, has spent much of his recent commentary trying to separate genuine progress from marketing noise, arguing that discipline in implementation matters more than any claim about a tool’s raw capability. […]

Since 1996, the Colcom Foundation has distributed more than $500 million in grants across Western Pennsylvania, building a track record that few regional funders can match. Founded by Cordelia Scaife May, the organization set out to address the connection between human population growth and environmental strain, a focus that still guides its work today. Through […]

Long before Greg Soros became a name in podcast production, he was studying the technical side of music at Berklee College of Music. That training, paired with years working inside leading media companies, gave him a foundation most podcasters in the audio space simply don’t have. It also explains why his Austin studio, Podcraft Media […]

Publishing a surgical technique is one thing. Documenting it thoroughly enough for other surgeons to adopt it is another. Dr. Andrew Jacono did both, culminating in a 2021 textbook, “The Art and Science of Extended Deep Plane Facelifting,” that draws on more than 2,000 procedures. The book followed years of clinical work that began when […]

The conversation about AI in government tends to gravitate toward possibilities: what the technology could automate, what it could predict, how it could transform the delivery of public services. Justin Fulcher, drawing on experience as both a technology founder and a Defense Department advisor, shifts that conversation toward implementation. Possibility, he argues, is not the […]