The word transparency gets used constantly in financial services, but Michael Gold believes the industry has settled for a shallow version of it. For the Westport, Connecticut-based founder of Gold Family Wealth, transparent advising is not about disclosure forms. It is about giving clients a clear view of how every piece of their financial life connects.Gold has spent 25 years watching affluent families lose value not because of bad advice, but...

Building a business that operates simultaneously across the United Kingdom, Malta, Lithuania, and the UAE is not a task that suits conventional corporate thinking. Burak Basel has spent years developing the frameworks and relationships that make this kind of multi-jurisdictional entrepreneurship workable rather than chaotic.The challenge is regulatory: each jurisdiction carries its own compliance requirements, tax treatment, and legal...

Government AI deployments face a challenge that private-sector pilots often don't: they have to keep working when the project champion leaves, when the budget gets cut, and when the vendor relationship changes. Justin Fulcher has argued that designing for those realities rather than for the ideal conditions of a controlled pilot is what determines whether a deployment actually delivers value.Fulcher's experience running RingMD across more than...

When Michael Polk left Newell Brands in 2019, most observers assumed his executive career was winding down. He had spent decades leading major public corporations, including stints at Kraft Foods and Unilever, and his tenure at Newell Brands saw the company's enterprise value climb from $5 billion to over $15 billion. Retirement, it seemed, was a reasonable next step.But Polk returned to the corporate world in 2020, this time as CEO of Implus...

The podcasting boom has created more opportunities than ever for independent creators — and more competition. Getting a show off the ground is one thing; building an audience, landing sponsors, and sustaining a production is another. Greg Soros, a seasoned podcaster and founder of Podcraft Media Lab, designed his mentorship initiative around exactly that gap.Soros has been candid about what motivated the effort. "The podcasting industry has an...

Most affluent families assume that hiring the right specialists guarantees sound financial planning. Michael Gold Westport has spent 25 years proving that assumption wrong.Gold, the founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, argues that competence among individual advisors is necessary but not sufficient. What determines outcomes for complex families is whether those advisors are coordinating at all. In the majority of cases...

The goal of facial rejuvenation surgery has always been to make patients look younger, not different. Achieving that outcome consistently requires understanding what changes as the face ages a question that shaped Dr. Andrew Jacono's development of the Minimal Access Deep-Plane Extended facelift.Facial aging is driven primarily by two forces: volume loss and the downward migration of soft tissue. Skin laxity is a result of these changes, not...

Karl Studer on Corporate Responsibility: Doing Business the Right Way Corporate responsibility has become a crowded space — full of glossy reports, ambitious pledges, and, too often, a significant gap between what organizations say and what they actually do. Karl Studer takes a more grounded approach to the concept. For him, responsible business is not a communications strategy — it is a daily practice embedded in how decisions are made,...

Few philanthropic organizations take on the topic of human population as directly as Colcom Foundation. Founded in Pittsburgh in 1996 by Cordelia Scaife May, the Foundation was built on a premise that the broader conservation community has often sidestepped: that the total number of people on Earth, and how fast that number grows, has profound consequences for the natural world. Colcom Foundation has kept this idea at the center of its work for...