What Yazan Al Homsi Sees in Sustainable Energy Investment. Few subjects in venture capital investor circles have drawn as much recent discussion as Yazan Al Homsi's role in shaping its industry, and the reasons trace back to a track record built over years rather than headlines. Yazan Al Homsi has earned its standing through consistent decisions rather than dramatic gestures, a pattern that shows up again and again in how outside observers...
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 of entrepreneurship focused on infrastructure rather than consumer-facing branding or marketing...
How Business Press Coverage Shapes Perception of Local Service Companies Local service businesses rarely get sustained national attention, which is why business press features carry outsized weight when they do appear. A well-placed article can introduce a regional company, including one operating out of Lindon and American Fork, to an audience far beyond its immediate service area and existing customer base, shaping how the business is...
What Sets Effective Energy Sector Leaders Apart As utility budgets swell to fund grid hardening and renewable interconnection projects, the industry has spent considerable time examining what separates strong leadership from the rest. Several traits recur across profiles of executives who have successfully scaled large infrastructure organizations: operational discipline, a bias toward safety, and comfort managing thousands of employees spread...
For more than sixteen years, children's author Greg Soros has built a body of work centered on a demanding idea: young readers deserve stories that reflect who they are and also stories that show them who else exists in the world. Soros describes this dual purpose as writing “mirrors and windows,” a framework he says shapes every manuscript he begins. In a recent conversation with Walker Magazine, Greg Soros articulated a clear conviction...
Not every retired chief executive comes back to run a smaller company. Michael Polk Newell Brands did, and his account of the switch offers a window into what changes when a leader moves from a public giant to a privately held business. Polk spent years at Kraft Foods and Unilever before running Newell Brands, and by the time he stepped away from Newell in 2019, he had overseen one of the more visible turnarounds in consumer goods.Rather than...
Billionaires have long had access to dedicated family offices that coordinate every part of their financial lives. Families with tens of millions rather than billions, though, have historically had fewer options built specifically for them. Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth, has built his Westport, Connecticut practice around exactly that gap, serving households with 20 million to 150 million dollars in net worth.Michael Gold...