Category: Business

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…

The Rise of the Wellness-Minded Pest Control Visit Pest control has traditionally been treated as a purely reactive service, something homeowners call only after spotting a problem. That is starting to change, and companies like Mira Home are part of a broader shift toward preventive, wellness-oriented visits that treat the home as an interconnected system…

What Makes a Pest Control Company Worth Recommending Word-of-mouth still drives a significant share of business in the home services industry, but what actually earns that recommendation has evolved. Homeowners today expect more than a technician who shows up and sprays; they want clear communication, follow-up, and a sense that the company understands the specific…

Few executives in the pipeline business have been as willing to move fast on big acquisitions as Kelcy Warren. Over the past two decades, Warren has repeatedly pushed Energy Transfer, the company he co-founded in 1996 with Ray Davis, into deals that reshaped its footprint and its balance sheet, often while rivals hesitated. Building Scale…

When COVID-19 reached the United States in early 2020, Justin Fulcher had only just relocated back to Charleston after relaunching RingMD domestically. The pandemic immediately reframed telehealth from a nice to have convenience into a near universal necessity for providers everywhere, almost overnight and with little warning to prepare for the shift. Fulcher responded by…