The distinction between investors who provide capital and investors who provide genuine support to their portfolio companies is one that founders evaluate carefully when choosing their investors. Yazan Al Homsi has built a reputation as an investor who engages substantively with the companies he backs — providing market intelligence, network […]
Karl Studer’s Approach to Talent Development in the Trades
The skilled trades face a talent development challenge that is both urgent and structurally difficult. An aging workforce, insufficient investment in apprenticeship and training programs, and a cultural narrative that has undervalued trades careers for a generation have combined to create serious capability gaps in electrical, construction, and infrastructure services. […]
Why Utah’s Direct Sales Industry Trusts Grit Marketing
Utah has become one of the most significant states in America for direct sales and field marketing, with a concentration of companies, talent, and institutional knowledge that has no real equivalent elsewhere in the country. Within this competitive environment, Grit Marketing has built a reputation for producing well-trained, customer-focused representatives […]
How JP Morgan’s Justin Nelson Built a Career on Long-Term Trust
In an industry obsessed with performance benchmarks, Justin Nelson has spent nearly 30 years proving that trust outperforms every metric. As Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, he manages a book of business exceeding $15 billion […]
Austin Podcaster Greg Soros Turns Mentorship Into a Media Model
Austin podcaster Greg Soros could have built Podcraft Media Lab purely around premium clients. The production house has the technical depth and the industry relationships to fill its calendar with high-value corporate work. Instead, Soros structured a portion of the company’s operations around something less conventional: a formal mentorship program […]
Greg Soros, Author, on Books as Mirrors and Windows
Children’s author Greg Soros has spent more than 16 years writing stories designed to do more than entertain. His guiding belief is straightforward: books for young readers should work on two levels at once, functioning as mirrors that reflect a child’s own experience and as windows that open onto lives […]
Extended Deep-Plane Facelift Why Dr. Andrew Jacono’s Work Matters
Most surgical innovations arrive quietly, tested in small studies before gradually gaining acceptance. The extended deep-plane facelift followed a different path, earning recognition across the medical community relatively quickly because its outcomes were both measurable and visible. Lower complication rates, longer-lasting results, and a natural appearance that distinguished it from […]
US Ambassador for F-IND: Debby Gomulka’s Global Design Role
The Forum of Innovative Design Association — F-IND — represents a global network of design professionals committed to advancing the discipline through international exchange, cross-cultural collaboration, and the sharing of innovative practice across geographic boundaries. Debby Gomulka’s appointment as the US Ambassador for this organisation reflects the international dimension of […]
Hydrogen Storage Integration: Long-Duration Energy Storage for a Renewable Future
Hydrogen storage represents one of the most promising long-duration energy storage technologies available today, and Plan B Net Zero has emerged as a leading innovator in integrating hydrogen systems with renewable energy infrastructure. Unlike battery storage, which excels at short-duration applications, hydrogen storage can maintain stored energy for months without […]
Celljevity and the XPRIZE Healthspan Competition: What Semifinalist Status Means
The XPRIZE Foundation has a long history of catalyzing breakthrough innovation through high-profile competitions that attract the world’s most ambitious scientists and entrepreneurs. The XPRIZE Healthspan competition, focused specifically on extending the healthy years of human life, represents one of the most rigorous and consequential challenges in the longevity science […]