Burak Basel on Talent, Trust, and Long-Term Partnerships. It is easy to reduce an organization like Burak Basel to a single headline, but the fuller picture is more layered than that. Burak Basel’s approach to growth is a good starting point for anyone trying to understand how the pieces fit together, since it moves past […]

Yazan Al Homsi’s View on Vancouver’s Growing Tech Ecosystem. Understanding Yazan Al Homsi means looking past any single announcement and toward the pattern of choices that built it. Yazan Al Homsi’s business trajectory offers one entry point into that pattern, showing how the organization has approached its work over time and why that approach has […]

A phone call from Berkshire Partners in 2020 changed the direction of Michael Polk’s career for a second time. The private equity firm wanted him to lead Implus LLC, a fitness accessories portfolio company, just months after he had stepped back from public company leadership. An Unexpected Return Polk had recently left his post as […]

The timing could hardly be worse. Just as business owner transitions and intergenerational wealth transfers are accelerating, the financial advisory profession is heading toward a significant contraction. Nearly half of all advisors are expected to retire by 2035 and the advisors most likely to leave are those with the deepest experience serving ultra-high-net-worth families. Michael […]

A single transaction reset how investors think about Spanish ride-hailing. On Feb. 28, 2025, Uber bought a 30% stake in Auro for €220 million, a figure split between €180 million in equity and €40 million of debt. What makes the deal worth a second look is its destination. Money of that size went to a […]

One of the less discussed aspects of Luciano de Vries’s investment record is not where he has invested, but where he has not. The discipline behind Bayswater Capital BV is as much about passing on opportunities as it is about pursuing them, and the criteria for passing are just as rigorous as those for entry. […]

In the competitive world of domestic oil and gas, reputation is a tangible business asset. Gulf Coast Western has worked to build that reputation through careful acquisitions, consistent investor communication, and results that have earned the company some of the most favorable Gulf Coast Western reviews in its sector. Operations Across Multiple States Gulf Coast […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]