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Executive directories are an underappreciated part of a professional’s public record. They are often maintained by regional firms and organised by country, which means a person with international interests may appear in several of them. Burak Basel’s UK executive entry is one such listing, and a counterpart exists for Malta. Different directories can also be […]
Payments companies increasingly sit at the crossroads of money movement and money management. Priority, according to Hypepotamus, describes its aim as helping merchants optimize working capital and monetize all payment flows, and the company now holds $1.2 billion in customer deposits. Deposit growth at Thomas Priore’s firm hints at how far the business has moved […]
Ask people who have spent a season or two in door-to-door sales what they took from it, and many mention things that never appeared on a pay stub. Confidence, communication, and a clearer sense of their own capacity come up frequently. These benefits are harder to measure than income but often outlast the job itself. […]
A career built on managing more than fifteen billion dollars might suggest a leader focused purely on numbers. Justin Nelson, Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at JP Morgan Private Bank, spends just as much energy on the twenty people who work alongside him in Connecticut every day. […]
Kelcy Warren started Energy Transfer Partners in 1996 with co-founder Ray Davis, running a small intrastate natural gas pipeline operator out of East Texas. Warren has described those early years plainly. “When Ray Davis and I started at Energy Transfer, we floundered around, just paying salaries,” he says. The company’s fortunes shifted when Enron collapsed […]
As executive chairman of Energy Transfer, Kelcy Warren spends most of his time overseeing one of the largest pipeline networks in the United States. A recent Hart Energy interview offered a rare, more personal look at the man behind that title, recorded as part of the company’s 50th anniversary Hall of Fame ceremony in Houston. […]
Justin Nelson oversees one of the larger client portfolios within JP Morgan Private Bank, managing more than $15 billion in assets from his base in Connecticut. As Managing Director and head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team, Nelson has spent close to three decades building the relationships behind that figure. The scale […]
Not every executive who leaves a public company goes looking for another one just like it. Michael Polk went the opposite direction, choosing a smaller, privately owned business over a return to the corporate spotlight. Two Very Different Worlds Michael Polk built his reputation over decades at Kraft Foods, Unilever and eventually Newell Brands, where […]
Seventeen people gathered in Kelcy Warren‘s office one recent morning for a casual roundtable before the workday officially started. It was not a scheduled meeting so much as a habit, the kind of loose gathering Warren says he encourages because his team likes to trade stories and generate business ideas before the phones start ringing. […]
The Investors Building Clean Energy’s Next Growth Phase The clean energy sector has entered a period many analysts describe as consolidation, following two years of volatility in commodity input pricing and shifting subsidy frameworks across North America and Europe. This dynamic has renewed attention on investors who spent the earlier growth cycle building diversified portfolios […]
