The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans takes its name from a 19th century author whose stories followed young people rising through effort and persistence. Kelcy Warren, who built Energy Transfer and serves as its Executive Chairman, counts himself among the group’s members. A September 2024 company blog post says he is honored to belong. […]

“Access to capital is no longer limited. Access to good judgment is,” says Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut. The line captures a theme he returns to often. Wealthy families rarely lack expert help, yet they frequently lack anyone who sees the whole picture. Disclosure Has Limits Gold made […]

Corporate charity stories often blur together, but one passage in a 2020 Gulf Coast Western profile stands out for its specifics. It describes how the Dallas oil company helped a young cancer survivor’s foundation reach far more children during the holidays. The Sadie Keller Foundation began with a personal experience. Sadie Keller was diagnosed with […]

Much of the praise in Gulf Coast Western reviews centers on one person: Matthew Fleeger, the company’s President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director. A December 2021 CBN article traces his path from business student to head of the Dallas oil and gas firm his father founded in 1970. An Entrepreneur Before the Oil Business Fleeger […]

Energy Transfer has spent close to three decades absorbing pipelines, processors and partnerships, and executive chairman Kelcy Warren says the buying is not finished. Speaking with Hart Energy for its 2023 Hall of Fame series, Warren described a future that includes more consolidation, a wider international reach and deeper involvement in LNG and petrochemicals. He […]

The podcast industry has split into two camps on artificial intelligence. One group automates as much as possible. The other keeps technology at arm’s length. Greg Soros, a podcaster and the entrepreneur behind Podcraft Media Lab, has built his company around a third option that analysts say could pay off as the market matures. His […]

Growth in payments often comes from combining businesses, and Priority has used acquisitions as a steady part of its strategy. Hypepotamus lists four deals in particular: Cynergy Data in 2014, American Credit Card Processing in 2015, Finxera in 2021, and Plastiq in 2023. Each added a different capability to the company’s offering. The dealmaking record […]

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 […]