Joining an oil and gas venture as an outside investor carries real financial exposure, which is why Gulf Coast Western built a two-step process before any partner signs on. The Dallas-based firm, founded in 1970, requires that every joint venture participant first meet accredited investor status under SEC Regulation D. That typically means a net worth above $1 million outside of a primary residence, or two consecutive years of individual income...
Behind the Scenes: How Utility Contractor Executives Manage Multi-State Portfolios Running a national electric power construction portfolio requires balancing dozens of simultaneous priorities: storm restoration crews on standby in one region, new transmission builds underway in another, and long-term maintenance contracts running quietly in the background. Executives who oversee this kind of work rarely get public attention, even though their...
Before he ever advised the Pentagon, Justin Fulcher was building a telemedicine company meant to serve patients across Asia. That company, RingMD, gave him firsthand experience with the kind of technology adoption problems that show up whenever a new tool meets an old, cautious institution. Years later, that background shaped how he approached a very different kind of system: the United States Department of Defense.From Telemedicine to the...
Most conversations about pollution, habitat loss, and disappearing species treat those problems as separate crises with separate causes. The Colcom Foundation rejects that framing outright, insisting that a single underlying force, population growth, links nearly all of them together. Colcom Foundation supports several special programs, including the Conservation Catalyst Fund, which grants conservation organizations working to protect...
A Pittsburgh-based philanthropic organization is drawing renewed attention for its focus on a subject many funders avoid population growth and its toll on the natural world. The Colcom Foundation states plainly that its core purpose is to foster a sustainable environment so that Americans can maintain their quality of life, addressing what it calls the major causes and consequences of overpopulation. Colcom Foundation is among the primary...
Justin Fulcher's career spans Southeast Asia, the United States, and partnerships reaching as far as India, tracing back to a single observation made in Jakarta when he was still a teenager traveling on what was meant to be a short trip abroad and nothing more than that at the time.That observation, that consumer technology had outpaced basic healthcare access, led him to found RingMD, a telemedicine company he built first in Singapore and later...