Long before he ran a family office, Alejandro Betancourt López bought shares of Citibank. He was 17, he said in a February 2022 interview, and he waved the purchase away almost as soon as he mentioned it. “I bought Citibank when I was 17 years old in a bank account,” […]
Headwater streams are small, but they set the conditions for everything downstream. A $1 million grant from the Colcom Foundation is aimed at keeping the headwaters of northwestern Pennsylvania’s Upper Allegheny Watershed intact for good. Awarded to Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 2025, the grant funds a three-year initiative to permanently […]
How old is the government’s operating model? Justin Fulcher offered a memorable answer in an article on institutional renewal: “Across government, healthcare, defense, and infrastructure, our core systems operate as if it were 1975.” A March 2026 profile uses that observation as a starting point for examining what artificial intelligence […]
“The podcasting industry has an accessibility problem.” That blunt assessment comes from Greg Soros, founder of the Austin-based studio Podcraft Media Lab, and it shapes how he runs his business. His answer has been to treat mentorship as a core part of the company’s work rather than a side project. […]
Awards lists can say a lot about how peers view a business leader. For Kelcy Warren, founder and Executive Chairman of Energy Transfer, that list is long and comes from groups across the energy and business communities. Recent recognition has come from Hart Energy, the Texas Oil & Gas Association […]
Regional reach is a strength for Debby Gomulka. Her firm, Provenance Lee Interiors, has a studio at 677 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina, and serves clients in Charleston, Atlanta, Raleigh, and elsewhere across the United States. Her profile in the design press is growing as well. A 2025 CEOWORLD […]
Every service business has a story, and the way it is told says something about priorities. Customers increasingly want to know who stands behind the work, how the company is organized and what it values before they let anyone through the front door. Public profiles, professional pages and press coverage […]
Field sales can look like individual work, since each rep ends up at a different door. In practice, the best teams function more like small communities, where members motivate and challenge each other. Accountability is a big part of that dynamic, and it works best when it feels supportive rather […]
Trust does not come with a title inside a federal agency, and Justin Fulcher learned that distinction quickly during his six months as a senior advisor at the Defense Department. Working under Secretary Hegseth on acquisition reform and IT modernization, Fulcher operated in a structure where his influence depended almost […]
The scale of global biodiversity loss is difficult to grasp in the abstract, but a few figures make the stakes concrete. The 2019 IPBES Global Assessment found that roughly one million plant and animal species face extinction, more than at any prior point in human history, and that three quarters […]