Justin Nelson did not take the most predictable route into private banking. Before becoming a Managing Director at JP Morgan, he earned degrees in chemistry and economics at Tufts University, then completed an MBA at Columbia University. That mix of science and economics continues to shape how he thinks about talent.Today Nelson is Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut. He...
Before he worked at the Pentagon, Justin Fulcher built RingMD, a telehealth startup that operated in markets where infrastructure limited what technology could deliver. That early work taught him a principle he later carried to Washington: the technology that earns adoption is the technology that reduces friction.Fulcher spent six months as a senior advisor at the Department Defense, focusing on acquisition reform and IT modernization. He...
Justin Nelson's interest in neurodiverse hiring does not stop at his desk. Alongside his role as Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at JP Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, Nelson works with Adelphi University's Bridges Program and the nonprofit Broad Futures, two organizations focused on helping neurodiverse individuals move from school into stable careers.Closing the Gap Between School...
Some children pick up a book hoping to find a piece of themselves in it. Others open the same book looking for a glimpse of a life they have never lived. Author Greg Soros builds his stories around exactly that split, using what he calls a mirror and window approach to character work, a framework he has leaned on for most of a career now stretching past fifteen years. Reflecting Real ExperienceGreg Soros explains that some young readers...
Before recommending any changes to a family's finances, Michael Gold insists on a full diagnostic first. The founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut describes this process simply as looking under the hood before touching anything underneath it.That means examining every aspect of a family's existing advisory relationships to identify gaps, determine how serious those gaps are, and figure out what it would take to fix them....
Justin Nelson does not measure his leadership at JP Morgan by how essential he remains to daily operations. The Managing Director, who heads the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at JP Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, has spent nearly thirty years developing a philosophy centered on making his own role increasingly unnecessary.Justin Nelson leads a twenty person team built around gradual succession. Junior advisors...
Finance often runs on short cycles, with quarterly results shaping decisions across entire firms. Justin Nelson, a Managing Director at JP Morgan who leads the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at JP Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, has spent nearly three decades pushing back against that framework, at least when it comes to measuring his own success.Justin Nelson does not dismiss the importance of performance metrics....
Greg Soros, an author who has written for young readers for more than a decade, is skeptical of children's books that announce their lessons too loudly. The strongest stories, he says, never feel like instruction. Children absorb social and emotional lessons through narrative, not through a moral spelled out at the end of a chapter, and Greg Soros treats that distinction as central to his craft. Greg Soros argues that children’s literature...
Hart Energy has inducted Kelcy Warren into its 50th anniversary Hall of Fame, honoring three decades of pipeline building that reshaped how oil and gas move across North America. The recognition places Warren alongside a small group of industry figures credited with building the networks that keep energy flowing from wellhead to market.Warren co-founded Energy Transfer in 1996 with about 200 miles of East Texas natural gas pipelines. The company...
More than 15,000 scientists once signed a warning that population growth ranks among the drivers pushing species toward extinction. Colcom Foundation leans heavily on that 2017 paper, published in BioScience as "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice," to support its argument that demographic trends belong in any serious conversation about biodiversity loss.A Pattern Across StudiesThe foundation's resource page lays out a string...