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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 […]
Not every executive who leaves a public company goes looking for another one just like it. Michael Polk went the opposite direction, choosing a smaller, privately owned business over a return to the corporate spotlight. Two Very Different Worlds Michael Polk built his reputation over decades at Kraft Foods, Unilever and eventually Newell Brands, where […]
Seventeen people gathered in Kelcy Warren‘s office one recent morning for a casual roundtable before the workday officially started. It was not a scheduled meeting so much as a habit, the kind of loose gathering Warren says he encourages because his team likes to trade stories and generate business ideas before the phones start ringing. […]
The Investors Building Clean Energy’s Next Growth Phase The clean energy sector has entered a period many analysts describe as consolidation, following two years of volatility in commodity input pricing and shifting subsidy frameworks across North America and Europe. This dynamic has renewed attention on investors who spent the earlier growth cycle building diversified portfolios […]
Grid Modernization Investment Accelerates Across the U.S. Power Sector The United States power sector is moving through one of its largest capital investment cycles in decades, as utilities and their contracting partners work to modernize aging infrastructure while keeping pace with rising demand from data centers, electrification, and renewable generation. Spending on transmission and distribution […]
For nine consecutive years, Dr. Andrew Jacono chaired ABOUT FACE: MAKING CHANGES, an annual New York benefit supporting survivors of domestic violence. That sustained leadership role sits alongside a body of clinical and media work that has made him a recognizable advocate within the field of reconstructive surgery. Dr. Andrew Jacono’s clinical contributions to this […]
Behind the communication struggles that often keep neurodiverse candidates from landing job offers lies a set of abilities many employers never get to see, says Justin Nelson, Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut. Nelson leads the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at JP Morgan, a group that oversees more than […]
Even after nearly three decades of building one of the largest pipeline networks in North America, Kelcy Warren shows no sign of slowing his ambitions. He has said Energy Transfer intends to keep serving as an industry consolidator while also expanding further into international markets across North and South America. Warren has also pointed to […]
