Inside the JP Conte Family Foundation’s Portfolio of Gifts The JP Conte Family Foundation reads less like a checkbook and more like a portfolio. Since its founding in 2017, the foundation has spread gifts across causes that span education, medical research, and conservation. Jean-Pierre Conte runs that portfolio with a consistent test. Whatever the cause, […]
Month: June 2026
Michael Gold of Westport on the Hidden Costs of Siloed Advice
Michael Gold has a pointed way of framing the central challenge in private wealth management. Families with real financial complexity are often surrounded by professionals who are excellent at their individual jobs and entirely ignorant of what the others are doing. Gold founded Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut to address that structural failure. Over […]
Newsweek and Harper’s Bazaar Both Recognize Dr. Andrew Jacono’s Excellence
Rankings mean more when they come from more than one source. Dr. Andrew Jacono has appeared near the top of multiple independent assessments of surgical excellence, which together suggest a consistency that a single list cannot. Newsweek ranked him third nationally among facelift surgeons for 2025. Harper’s Bazaar named him among the 24 best plastic […]
How Gulf Coast Western Built a Domestic Oil and Gas Empire
Few companies in the American energy sector can point to a history as steady and deliberate as Gulf Coast Western. Founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1970 by Thomas H. Fleeger, the firm began with a clear focus on acquiring and developing domestic oil and gas resources. Over the following decades, it expanded from a regional […]
Colcom Foundation Connects Sprawl and Extinction to Population Totals
Urban sprawl is often treated as a planning problem or a housing market failure. The Colcom Foundation frames it differently as an ecological consequence of a growing population that needs to put land to use. The foundation’s historical data on land conversion makes the progression clear, and it uses that data to argue that sprawl […]
The Hidden Force Keeping San Francisco’s Art World Alive
The Hidden Force Keeping San Francisco’s Art World Alive Here’s something most museum visitors never think about: those stunning galleries don’t sustain themselves on passion alone. You stroll through the de Young Museum, pause in front of a breathtaking painting, maybe wander into a traveling exhibition from halfway across the world — and it all […]
Michael Polk Reflects on Value Creation Across Corporate Settings
Ask Michael Polk Newell Brands what a CEO is ultimately there to do and the answer comes quickly: create value. That principle, Polk says, holds whether you are running a global public conglomerate or a lean private company. What changes is how you pursue it. The Public Company Playbook Polk spent decades building that conviction […]