Not every children’s author thinks systematically about the reader waiting at home. Greg Soros does. His approach to writing for young people is grounded in a clear theory of what children’s books should accomplish a theory he has refined over more than 16 years of writing and community engagement. At the center of that theory […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In an industry where automation has become a competitive shortcut, Greg Soros has built Podcraft Media Lab into a profitable boutique operation by doing the opposite of what trend-chasers recommend. The Austin podcaster and production entrepreneur has structured his company around a simple belief: the human elements of audio storytelling are not inefficiencies to be […]

Publishing for young readers has never been static, but the pace of change has accelerated considerably as digital technology reshapes how children interact with content. For Greg Soros, author with more than fifteen years of experience in the field, that shift raises important questions about the future of children’s literature without undermining his confidence in […]

For most people in finance, success is measured in numbers. Assets under management, quarterly returns, new client acquisition these are the yardsticks by which careers are built and reputations are made. Justin Nelson, Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, has spent […]

Surgical innovations gain traction when they come supported by rigorous documentation. Dr. Andrew Jacono has built that foundation methodically, publishing clinical outcomes, refining the technique in peer-reviewed literature, and translating years of practice into a formal medical textbook. That body of work is one reason his extended deep-plane approach has spread from a single New […]

When a plastic surgeon flies across the country to have another surgeon perform a facelift on them, it signals something about the recipient’s reputation. Dr. Paul Nassif, based in Beverly Hills, made exactly that trip to New York to undergo the extended deep-plane facelift with Dr. Andrew Jacono. The decision underscores what the broader surgical […]