Anyone who has waited on a slow federal process has felt the effect of aging infrastructure. Justin Fulcher, a technology founder who advised the Secretary of Defense, puts a date on the problem."Across government, healthcare, defense, and infrastructure, our core systems operate as if it were 1975," he wrote in an article on institutional renewal. Just before that line, he offered his diagnosis: "The issue is not national decline; it's...
Startup networks have become common directories for founders, investors and service providers. Basel Holding appears on one of them, F6S, where the group's company page lists the organisation in a community that is oriented toward founders and growing businesses. For a holding group, that kind of listing signals openness to the wider ecosystem. A reader who wants to move from a network listing to deeper material can follow the chairman's...
Some readers open a book hoping to find themselves in it. Others open one hoping to find someone entirely different. Greg Soros Author builds his stories to serve both kinds of readers at once, a method he describes as writing mirrors and windows at the same time.Soros explains that some children need to see their own experiences reflected back to them, so they know they are not alone in what they are feeling. "Others need windows into...
Kelcy Warren is not slowing down. Despite nearly three decades of acquisitions that have turned Energy Transfer into one of the country's largest pipeline operators, the company's co-founder and executive chairman says there is still room to grow, both at home and abroad, and he has no interest in pausing to admire what has already been built.Looking Beyond U.S. BordersWarren has said he wants Energy Transfer to expand further into North and...
Rocket Doctor's August 18 provider network agreement gave the physician-led virtual care platform contracted access across five U.S. reimbursement channels: commercial insurance, Medicare Advantage, workers' compensation, auto medical, and its existing complementary coverage. The network behind the deal reports ties to more than 700 health plans, over 100,000 employers, and roughly 60 million consumers.None of those figures, on their own, prove...
Why New York Remains a Base for Payments Infrastructure Talent New York's technology scene is often associated with consumer apps and enterprise software, but the city has also quietly become a center of gravity for payments and commerce infrastructure. Executives building companies in this narrower but consequential niche, including Thomas Priore, have helped establish the city as a serious hub for financial technology development alongside its...
Profile: Leadership Trends in Electric Power Construction The electric power construction segment has become one of the more closely watched corners of the infrastructure economy, as utilities lean on specialty contractors to execute grid modernization at a pace their internal crews cannot match alone. Within that segment, Quanta Services has built one of the largest electric power platforms in North America, with Karl Studer serving as...
Surgical skill develops through repetition, and few facial plastic surgeons perform as many deep-plane facelifts as Dr. Andrew Jacono. He completes approximately 250 of these procedures annually, a volume that has let him refine the technique continuously since introducing it in the early 2000s.That caseload sits behind the extended deep-plane method's growing reputation. Dr. Andrew Jacono's approach departs from the skin-tightening techniques...
Longevity separates one facelift technique from another more than any other single factor, and it is where Dr. Andrew Jacono's extended deep-plane method draws its strongest praise. Patients and surgeons alike point to results that hold for twelve to fifteen years, roughly double what standard SMAS facelifts typically deliver.The gap comes down to what each technique actually corrects. Traditional facelifts separate skin from the tissue...
Ultra-high-net-worth families are becoming more selective about who manages their wealth, and Michael Gold Westport's Gold Family Wealth says the questions they ask have changed.New Questions From Sophisticated ClientsFamilies today ask pointed questions about accountability, coordination experience, and whether an advisory team will stay engaged through major transitions, not just during the good years. They want assurance that the people...