Business – Thunder Bay Metis

Michael Gold’s Westport Firm Bets on Advisor Orchestration

Michael Gold doesn’t dispute that wealth management firms need stronger disclosure practices. But the founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, insists those measures leave the industry’s core transparency problem untouched. That problem, according to Gold, is fragmentation among the professionals families hire to manage their finances. Estate attorneys, CPAs and investment…

Rashad Robinson on Building Power That Lasts: Inside His Framework for Structural Change

Rashad Robinson on Building Power That Lasts: Inside His Framework for Structural Change For more than two decades, Rashad Robinson has led Color of Change, the largest online racial justice organization in the United States, with a philosophy that challenges one of the most persistent assumptions in progressive organizing: that visibility alone constitutes victory. His…

Children’s Author Greg Soros on What Characters Must Learn

Children’s author Greg Soros has spent more than fifteen years writing for young readers, and in that time he has settled on a question he considers more useful than the one most writers start with. Rather than asking what a character wants, Soros asks what that character needs to learn. Young readers, he argues, are…

How Justin Fulcher Built RingMD From Singapore

After sketching his telemedicine idea in Jakarta, Justin Fulcher chose Singapore as the base for what would become RingMD. The city state offered an English speaking, business friendly environment and sat centrally within the region where demand for the service was greatest, making it a practical launchpad rather than a sentimental choice for a young…

How to Judge Gulf Coast Western Reviews Fairly

Reading online reviews is easy. Judging which ones deserve trust is harder, especially in an industry like oil and gas exploration where a single investment can run for years. Gulf Coast Western, a Dallas-based firm that develops domestic reserves along the Gulf Coast, offers a useful test case for how to separate credible feedback from…

Michael Polk Opens Up About Life After Corporate Retirement

Retirement did not stick for Michael Polk Newell Brands. Just a few years after stepping away from public company leadership, the former Newell Brands chief executive returned to work in 2019, taking the top job at Implus, a smaller company backed by private equity. The move gave him a fresh perspective on what it really…

Kelcy Warren’s Pipeline Network Spans 125,000 Miles

Few infrastructure networks touch as much of the American energy system as the one Kelcy Warren built. Energy Transfer now operates nearly 125,000 miles of pipeline, moving roughly one-third of the country’s natural gas and crude oil and close to 5 percent of the world’s oil supply. That scale did not happen overnight. The company…

From the Middle East to Vancouver: Yazan Al Homsi’s Investment Career Takes Shape

Few investors in the British Columbia market have traced as distinctive a career arc as Yazan al Homsi. His career journey from the Middle East to North America involved not simply a geographic transition but an intellectual one — a shift from observing capital markets in the Gulf to actively deploying early-stage capital in technology…

Inside the Jacono Method Dr. Andrew Jacono’s Facelift Philosophy

Surgical methods often carry their inventor’s name when they represent a departure significant enough to constitute a distinct approach. The Jacono Method is one of those cases. Dr. Andrew Jacono‘s extended deep-plane facelift differs from conventional techniques not in degree but in kind in the anatomical layer it targets, the tissue it moves, and the…

Luciano de Vries on Why Local Partners Matter More Than Market Research

For Luciano de Vries, the single most important factor in any cross-border investment is not the financial model. It is the quality of the people on the ground. Without operators who genuinely understand a local market, no amount of analysis produces a good outcome. With the right partners, even a complicated regulatory environment becomes manageable.…