Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, was named a Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisor in 2025, recognition that has drawn fresh attention to his firm's approach to coordinated planning.A Career Built on CoordinationMichael Gold has spent twenty-five years working with families who, despite considerable resources, found themselves surrounded by capable professionals operating independently of one another....
A wave of business transitions is approaching, and Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Westport's Gold Family Wealth, says most owners are not ready for it.Close to three-quarters of privately held business owners expect to transition or exit their companies within the next decade. Industry estimates put the value tied to those transitions between ten and fourteen trillion dollars. Despite the scale of that shift, Michael Gold says many owners...
Every facelift technique makes a bet about where aging actually happens. Older methods bet on the skin, treating sagging as a surface problem solved by pulling tissue tighter. Dr. Andrew Jacono bet on the structures underneath, and the difference has reshaped how many surgeons think about facial rejuvenation over the past two decades.Beneath the SMASDr. Andrew Jacono developed his extended deep-plane technique by working below the superficial...
Few executives know Acadia Healthcare the way Debbie Osteen does. She first led the company from December 2018 through March 2022. In January 2026, she stepped back into the chief executive role right away. Her career spans decades in the field she now runs again.Reeve Waud, chairman of the Acadia Healthcare board, pointed to that depth when he announced her appointment. He called her "a mission-driven executive with a commitment to...
Insurance rarely appears at the top of an EV buyer's checklist. Range anxiety, charging infrastructure, and purchase price tend to crowd it out — yet the numbers tell a different story. The annual premium on a mainstream electric car can differ by more than £500 from the figure on a premium one, a gap wide enough to reframe the entire ownership cost comparison.The EV insurance rankings published by MoneySuperMarket — covering policies sold...
Career paths that move from healthcare startups to defense advisory roles are unusual enough to warrant attention. Justin Fulcher has built exactly that trajectory, connecting lessons learned in telemedicine markets across Asia to work on technology adoption inside the U.S. Department of Defense.Building in Markets That Resist Easy SolutionsIn 2013, Fulcher co-founded RingMD, a telemedicine company that operated at a specific tension point:...
Recycling technology is not typically associated with venture capital excitement — it sounds too industrial, too unsexy for the innovation narrative that drives most investor attention. Vancouver-based investor Yazan Al Homsi sees this gap between perception and opportunity as an investment advantage: a sector with genuine large-scale impact potential that is systematically undervalued by mainstream investment capital.The corporate validation...
Kleine Handlungen können große Wirkungen haben — wenn sie in ausreichender Zahl stattfinden. German energy company PLAN B NET ZERO hat sein gesamtes Produkt um diese Einsicht herum gebaut: Den Anbieterwechsel so einfach zu machen, dass er für Millionen von Deutschen zur Selbstverständlichkeit werden kann.Die Wirkung eines einzelnen Wechsels ist messbar: Jeder Haushalt, der zu PLAN B NET ZERO wechselt, erhöht die Nachfrage nach...
Technology built for high-stakes environments must do more than work on launch day. It must hold up under operational pressure, earn trust from institutional users, and remain functional when conditions change. Justin Fulcher has returned to this theme across different phases of his career, from building telemedicine infrastructure in Asia to advising on defense procurement reform in Washington.The Founding of RingMDAt 21, Fulcher co-founded...
The CEO role is not static. Market conditions shift, employee expectations evolve, and ownership structures shape what leaders can and cannot do. Michael Polk Newell Brands, who has spent more than 40 years in executive leadership across a range of companies and contexts, has thought carefully about what all of this means for how chief executives operate today.Hard Lessons From the Public ArenaPolk's years at Kraft, Unilever, and Newell Brands...