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Michael Gold’s Westport Practice Redefines Wealth Advisory Standards
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Michael Polk’s Leadership Years At Unilever
When Unilever recruited Michael Polk away from Kraft Foods in 2003, the consumer goods giant gained an executive with a rare mix of manufacturing, marketing, and integration experience. He was brought on to lead the company’s United States foods business, a large piece of Unilever’s North American operations. His performance there led to a bigger…
Colcom Foundation Backs Restoration Work in Western PA
A lot of environmental restoration happens at a scale too small to make headlines: a stretch of streambank replanted with native trees, an invasive vine cleared from a hillside, a few acres of wetland brought back to functioning condition. Colcom Foundation directs a large share of its grantmaking toward exactly this kind of ground level…
Colcom Foundation Joins a Crowded Field of PA Funders
Environmental conservation in Pennsylvania draws on a mix of public agencies, private foundations, and earned revenue from land trusts, and Colcom Foundation occupies a specific niche within that funding community. The Colcom Foundation supports habitat restoration, land acquisition, and nonprofit capacity building, work that often falls outside what regulatory programs are equipped to cover. Who…
Justin Nelson Rewrites the JP Morgan Success Formula
Wall Street loves a scoreboard, but Justin Nelson has spent much of his career at J.P. Morgan Private Bank arguing that the most important numbers never show up on it. Redefining Success in Private Banking As Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team, Nelson oversees a Connecticut based practice…
Michael Gold’s Westport Practice Redefines Wealth Advisory Standards
Michael Gold measures success by a standard that rarely shows up on a balance sheet: whether a family feels nothing has been left unexamined. “The result is not just better financial structure. It is providing the confidence born from knowing nothing has been overlooked,” said Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport.…
Inside Yazan Al Homsi’s Approach to Backing EdTech Growth
When Yazan Al Homsi evaluates a potential investment, education technology sits high on his list of priorities. That focus was reinforced this month when Edumentors, one of the companies in his portfolio, announced it had reached $4 million in cumulative sales with 1.8x year-over-year growth, a milestone detailed in a recent report out of the…
How the Enron Collapse Shaped Kelcy Warren’s Strategy
The early 2000s handed Kelcy Warren one of the defining opportunities of his career, though it arrived through someone else’s downfall. When Enron collapsed, a wave of pipeline assets that companies had never intended to sell suddenly flooded the market. “Enron was a gift from God, and we took advantage of that,” Warren said, describing…
How Cordelia May Shaped the Mission of Colcom Foundation
Every organization has an origin story, but few are as personal as that of Colcom Foundation. Its founder, Cordelia S. May, began her charitable work in 1952 when she was only twenty three, focusing on family planning out of concern for the natural world. She understood that the balance between people and the planet had…
The Biomechanics Behind Dr. Andrew Jacono’s Facelift Approach
Facelift results often come down to a question of physics as much as surgery: where is tension applied, and what happens to the tissue that carries it? Dr. Andrew Jacono built his technique around answering that question differently than most surgeons before him. Conventional facelifts separate the skin from the muscle layer beneath it, then…
Michael Polk on Why CEOs Must Adapt to Survive
Not every chief executive fits the cold, corner office stereotype. Michael Polk Newell Brands, who spent decades running some of the country’s most recognizable consumer brands, argues that the job itself has to keep bending to meet new economic realities, new employee expectations, and shifting business models. From Kraft to Newell Brands Polk built his…