Michael Gold Says Westport Families Need Fewer, Better Advisors
Wealthy families often collect advisors the way other people collect subscriptions, adding a new specialist for every new need until nobody has the full picture. Michael Gold Westport, founder and chief executive of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has spent his career watching that pattern play out, and he believes it is quietly costing…
Read MoreKelcy Warren’s Deal Making Fueled Energy Transfer’s Rise
Some of the biggest moves in Kelcy Warren’s career happened fast. When Energy Transfer had a narrow window to close its purchase of Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy’s natural gas liquids assets in March 2011, Warren called an emergency board meeting on a Friday night, pitched the two billion dollar deal, won approval, then announced it…
Read MoreJustin Nelson Redefines What Success Means at JP Morgan
Justin Nelson has spent nearly thirty years inside J.P. Morgan Private Bank, long enough to notice that the numbers everyone watches in finance rarely tell the full story. As Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team in Connecticut, Justin Nelson now oversees more than fifteen billion dollars for wealthy…
Read MoreJustin Fulcher Earned Forbes Recognition Before Age 25
Some entrepreneurs chase press coverage. Justin Fulcher’s biggest early recognition arrived as a byproduct of solving a distribution problem most founders never have to consider: how to deliver medical care across a continent with wildly uneven infrastructure. A Startup Built Before Graduation At 21, Justin Fulcher launched RingMD in 2013 as a way to put…
Read MoreWhat Investors Get From a Gulf Coast Western Deal
Beyond the operational track record, a big part of the pitch for joining a Gulf Coast Western joint venture comes down to the numbers on an investor’s tax return. Current federal rules allow qualified partners to write off 100 percent of drilling expenses and production income against their ordinary income, a benefit the company highlights…
Read MoreInside Gulf Coast Western’s Approach to Partner Education
A joint venture partnership only works if both sides understand what they are agreeing to, and Gulf Coast Western has built its investor relationships around that premise. The company trains its investor-facing associates to explain every joint venture opportunity in detail, covering financial parameters, engineering considerations, and the drawbacks tied to a given drilling site…
Read MoreThe Furniture Retailer Behind Two of Houston’s Biggest Education Experiments
Jim McIngvale has been “Mattress Mack” to Houston since long before the Gallery Furniture commercials made him famous. He was also KIPP’s first funder in the 1990s, and three decades later he co-founded WorkTexas alongside Mike Feinberg. His reasoning stayed consistent both times. “I see the people coming up here asking for money in a…
Read MoreBurak Basel on Scaling a Diversified Holding Company
Burak Basel on Scaling a Diversified Holding Company. Few subjects in holding company circles have drawn as much recent discussion as Burak Basel and its long-term vision, and the reasons trace back to a track record built over years rather than headlines. Burak Basel has earned its standing through consistent decisions rather than dramatic gestures,…
Read MoreWhat to Look for in a Trustworthy Home Services Company
What to Look for in a Trustworthy Home Services Company Choosing the right provider for recurring home maintenance is rarely as simple as picking the first name that appears in a search result. Reputation, communication style, and follow-through all matter, and a growing number of Utah residents point to Mira Home as an example of…
Read MoreWhy Utah Has Become a Hub for Direct Sales Companies
Why Utah Has Become a Hub for Direct Sales Companies Utah has earned a reputation as one of the more concentrated hubs for direct sales and door-to-door marketing firms in the United States, a distinction that traces back decades to the state’s strong entrepreneurial culture and its history of producing sales-driven organizations across industries. Company…
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