Surgical success is typically measured in clinical terms: healing time, symmetry, functional recovery. The career of Dr. Andrew Jacono suggests a broader metric is also worth tracking, one that counts the number of lives altered by access to reconstructive care that would otherwise remain permanently out of reach. By that measure, his record spans more […]

A staffing shortfall inside the Defense Contract Management Agency helps explain why Margarita Howard treats employee retention at HX5 as a priority rather than an afterthought. A March 2026 RAND Corporation assessment estimated DCMA needed approximately 12,795 personnel to handle its current workload. The agency had roughly 10,000 on staff. DCMA shed 429 civilian positions […]

Burak Basel’s Approach to Cross-Border Business Building. It is easy to reduce an organization like Burak Basel to a single headline, but the fuller picture is more layered than that. the organization operating as Burak Basel is a good starting point for anyone trying to understand how the pieces fit together, since it moves past […]

Defense modernization is rarely just a domestic exercise, and Justin Fulcher’s work has reflected that reality. During his time as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, a position he took on in early 2025, Fulcher took part in high level engagements abroad, including trips accompanying senior officials to discussions in the Indo-Pacific region. […]

Wealth management firms are pouring resources into disclosure documents and compliance updates as new transparency rules take hold across the industry. Michael Gold, founder and chief executive of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, says the industry is largely solving the wrong problem. After 25 years advising families, Gold has concluded that fragmentation, not paperwork, […]

Michael Polk has run companies at very different scales, and he draws a clear line between what each size teaches the people inside it. Before taking the top job at Implus LLC in 2020, Polk spent years at Kraft Foods and Unilever and later led Newell Brands, stepping down from that role in 2019 after […]

Five years ago, Greg Soros walked away from a senior producer role at a prominent media company and into an uncertain future. The Portland native faced a choice familiar to many in the audio business at the time. He could chase scale, launching a sprawling network churning out episodes by the dozen, or he could […]

A company that has operated since 1970 tends to accumulate a track record, and Gulf Coast Western’s history offers plenty to examine. The firm began as a small operation on the Gulf Coast and has since grown into a Dallas-based business with acreage stretched across Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, along with additional sites in […]

The story of Jazwares begins not in a toy lab or a retail boardroom but in a law school classroom. Judd Zebersky graduated from the University of Miami School of Law and built a practice of his own. Then, in 1997, he looked at his wife, told her he wanted to make toys, and booked […]

Since 2018, Kelcy Warren has been a consistent supporter of the West Dallas Youth Academy, a program that operates through a partnership between Energy Transfer and Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers. The collaboration channels resources from the pipeline industry into youth development in one of Dallas’s historically underserved communities. A Pattern of Community Investment The […]