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…

Selling a company is often described as an ending. Justin Fulcher has resisted that framing since he sold RingMD to an undisclosed buyer in 2018. For Justin Fulcher, the sale marked a shift in structure rather than a change in purpose, and he has described it that way consistently in the years since. He called…

For years, Enterprise Products dominated the natural gas liquids business without much competition from Energy Transfer. Kelcy Warren has admitted the company simply was not in that market at all until the 2011 purchase of the Louis Dreyfus assets gave it a way in, a deal that turned a longtime rival’s turf into a segment…

Before most viewers had heard the name, a television series introduced them to the work of a facial plastic surgeon determined to serve patients far outside his typical clientele. Facing Trauma premiered on Discovery Fit & Health in 2011 and later moved to the Oprah Winfrey Network, following Dr. Andrew Jacono as he performed reconstructive…

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…

The Quiet Playbook of the Fintech Entrepreneur Every industry has its share of entrepreneurs who build quietly rather than chase headlines, and the fintech sector is no exception. Among the names that surface in profiles of founders who took this approach is Thomas Priore, whose work in payments and commerce technology reflects a broader pattern…