Selecting a wealth manager ranks among the most consequential financial decisions a family will make, yet Michael Gold Westport says many people approach the process backward. Instead of asking questions that predict a lasting relationship, they fixate on credentials and past performance, both of which reveal little about how an advisor will actually behave when it matters most.Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport,...
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...
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:...
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...
Choosing a wealth manager is one of the most consequential decisions a family makes, yet many families approach it in ways that set them up for disappointment. They focus on credentials displayed on a website, past performance numbers, or how polished a pitch deck looks. Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, says those criteria miss the point entirely.Gold has spent more than 25 years working with...
Wall Street rarely celebrates emotional intelligence. The industry runs on data, models, and performance metrics that strip away the messier human dimensions of money. Justin Nelson, a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank who oversees more than $15 billion in assets across the Connecticut market, has built a 30-year career on the premise that this approach is incomplete."Wealth management is one of the last areas of finance where the...
The most ambitious business builders are not those who optimize for the next quarter or even the next decade — they are those who build with multi-generational intention, creating organizations and enterprises whose value compounds across time horizons that extend well beyond their own direct involvement. Karl Studer has demonstrated this multi-generational orientation across both his corporate leadership and his agricultural enterprise,...