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Joy and sadness. Confidence and fear. Belonging and loneliness. Children feel all of it, and Greg Soros author thinks their books should reflect that. The children’s author has spent more than 16 years creating stories designed to help young readers navigate the emotions of growing up. His work rests on a single guiding idea. “Children’s […]
Every evening, Michael Gold sits down and writes out his goals. Every morning, he reads them again. The Westport financial advisor, who founded Gold Family Wealth, has kept this routine for years, and he credits it with keeping both his life and his practice on course. “It’s about 15 minutes at night and about 10 […]
Wealthy families rarely lose money because of a bad stock pick. More often, they lose it because they abandon a sound plan at the wrong moment. That is the central argument from Michael Gold, Founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, who has built his practice around consistent execution over decades. “The […]
Executive directories are an underappreciated part of a professional’s public record. They are often maintained by regional firms and organised by country, which means a person with international interests may appear in several of them. Burak Basel’s UK executive entry is one such listing, and a counterpart exists for Malta. Different directories can also be […]
Payments companies increasingly sit at the crossroads of money movement and money management. Priority, according to Hypepotamus, describes its aim as helping merchants optimize working capital and monetize all payment flows, and the company now holds $1.2 billion in customer deposits. Deposit growth at Thomas Priore’s firm hints at how far the business has moved […]
Ask people who have spent a season or two in door-to-door sales what they took from it, and many mention things that never appeared on a pay stub. Confidence, communication, and a clearer sense of their own capacity come up frequently. These benefits are harder to measure than income but often outlast the job itself. […]
A career built on managing more than fifteen billion dollars might suggest a leader focused purely on numbers. Justin Nelson, Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at JP Morgan Private Bank, spends just as much energy on the twenty people who work alongside him in Connecticut every day. […]
Kelcy Warren started Energy Transfer Partners in 1996 with co-founder Ray Davis, running a small intrastate natural gas pipeline operator out of East Texas. Warren has described those early years plainly. “When Ray Davis and I started at Energy Transfer, we floundered around, just paying salaries,” he says. The company’s fortunes shifted when Enron collapsed […]
As executive chairman of Energy Transfer, Kelcy Warren spends most of his time overseeing one of the largest pipeline networks in the United States. A recent Hart Energy interview offered a rare, more personal look at the man behind that title, recorded as part of the company’s 50th anniversary Hall of Fame ceremony in Houston. […]
Justin Nelson oversees one of the larger client portfolios within JP Morgan Private Bank, managing more than $15 billion in assets from his base in Connecticut. As Managing Director and head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team, Nelson has spent close to three decades building the relationships behind that figure. The scale […]
