Advice from experienced designers often centers on technique. The guidance from Debby Gomulka is different. According to a 2025 CEOWORLD profile, she tells students and interns, “Don’t try to fit in. It’s creative. Creative is abstract.” The message reflects her own career path. After roughly five years in the furniture industry, she launched her firm…

Careers in private markets rarely follow a single script. Executives move between advisory, investment and leadership responsibilities, and the picture that emerges is usually assembled from several public sources rather than one definitive account. The professional presence of Henry Gabay offers a useful example of how an investment career can be understood through the information…

Kelcy Warren left the University of Texas at Arlington with a degree in 1978. Decades later, Kelcy Warren holds the title of executive chairman at Energy Transfer, a company he founded and grew into one of North America’s largest and most diversified energy businesses. The company now runs more than 130,000 miles of pipeline and…

Selling a company is often described as an ending, yet for some founders it is closer to a change of role. The question of what happens to institutional knowledge when the person who built the business steps away has drawn attention in business media, including a magazine feature on founders staying after exits. The argument…

In September 2021, a press release announced that Aptive Environmental and Grit Marketing were teaming up to help more customers enjoy their homes. Partnerships like this are common in direct sales, where a field organization represents a service provider and handles the face-to-face outreach that brings in new customers. Basic company facts are also listed…

Oil and gas producers have spent recent decades adjusting to new technology, shifting economic conditions, and competition from alternative energy. A 2020 review by Ernest Hamilton examines how one Dallas company, Gulf Coast Western, has kept growing through those pressures, and it credits much of that growth to chief executive Matthew Fleeger. From a Family…

Kelcy Warren did not build Energy Transfer alone. The company traces its roots to a partnership formed after Warren helped find a buyer for Endevco, the pipeline and refining company where he worked after leaving Lone Star Gas Co. During that process he met investors Ray C. Davis and Ben Cook, and the three ended…

Leadership, for Justin Nelson, is less about personal recognition and more about preparing others to succeed without him. As Managing Director of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at JP Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, Nelson oversees a twenty person team and a client roster built over almost three decades at JP Morgan.…

Before Rashad Robinson’s new book reached shelves, it collected endorsements from some of the most recognized names in entertainment and advocacy, according to the book’s official page. “From Presence to Power: How to Take On the Fights That Matter and Win,” released July 28 through One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, drew praise…

Twice a year, Dr. Andrew Jacono leaves his Park Avenue office behind and boards a flight toward a surgical mission in a country where reconstructive care is largely out of reach. Over the course of his career, the dual board-certified facial plastic surgeon has operated on more than 750 children born with cleft lips, cleft…