In the competitive world of private banking, most firms screen for credentials first. Justin Nelson takes the opposite approach. The Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut has spent close to 30 years refining what he looks for in the people who […]
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Kelcy Warren’s Acquisition Strategy Transformed a Texas Pipeline Company
Energy Transfer’s rise from a small East Texas operator to one of the largest pipeline networks in the world did not happen through organic growth alone. Kelcy Warren built the company deal by deal, each acquisition adding a new piece to an infrastructure map that now spans the entire country. A Chronology of Bold Deals […]
Dr. Andrew Jacono’s Missions Reach Children Across the Developing World
The child sitting across the operating table in a clinic in Vietnam or Colombia was born into a world where the surgical skills needed to correct a cleft palate or remove a facial tumor simply did not exist within economic reach. For more than 750 such children, Dr. Andrew Jacono has been the surgeon who […]
Colcom Foundation Ties Environmental Mission to Population Growth
Few philanthropic organizations connect ecological decline to demographic change as directly as the Colcom Foundation. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the foundation has built its grantmaking philosophy around a core argument: that efforts to protect the natural world cannot succeed unless human population growth is addressed alongside per-capita consumption. That argument traces back to April 22, […]
How Judd Zebersky Turned a Law Career Into a Toy Empire
Judd Zebersky spent his early professional years practicing law after earning a JD from the University of Miami School of Law. But the consumer products world kept pulling at him, and in 1997 he walked away from his firm to do something most lawyers would find baffling: learn how to make toys in Chinese factories. […]
Judd Zebersky’s Jazwares Journey Toys, Philanthropy, and Squishmallows
Jazwares grew from a solo venture into a company with 1,400 employees and products in more than 100 countries. Behind that growth was Judd Zebersky, who founded the company after leaving a law practice and spent nearly three decades leading it before stepping down as CEO on March 20, 2026. Zebersky’s path to the toy […]
Justin Fulcher on Building AI Systems Government Workers Will Actually Use
Technology deployments in government fail for many reasons. Procurement delays, budget overruns, and technical mismatches all contribute. But one of the most common, and least discussed, failure modes is simpler: the people who are supposed to use a new system do not trust it or find it makes their work harder rather than easier. Technology […]
From Telemedicine to Defense Justin Fulcher on Technology in Regulated Sectors
The problems Justin Fulcher has spent his career solving share a common structure. Whether building telemedicine infrastructure for rural communities in Asia or working to modernize acquisition practices at the U.S. Department of Defense, the obstacle has consistently been the same: capable institutions running on processes that have fallen behind what the technology could support. […]
How Thomas Priore Thinks About Competitive Advantage in Payments
The payments industry is simultaneously one of the most competitive and most stable sectors in financial technology. Competitive, because the opportunity is enormous and the barriers to entry have declined as cloud infrastructure and APIs have democratized access to processing capabilities. Stable, because trust, compliance infrastructure, and enterprise relationships take years to build and are […]
How Yazan Al Homsi Navigates the Transition From Early-Stage to Growth Investment
The venture investment landscape has shifted significantly in recent years — with the traditional early-stage, growth, and late-stage segments blurring as capital has become more available across the lifecycle and as the timelines for company development have compressed in some sectors while extending in others. Vancouver-based investor Yazan Al Homsi has developed an investment approach […]