Tax treatment is one of the most frequently cited reasons investors choose an oil and gas joint venture over other options, and it shows up often in Gulf Coast Western reviews. Gulf Coast Western's EVP Steve Ziemke has explained that these investments can offer upfront tax deductions tied to intangible drilling costs, which make up the largest expense involved in bringing a well into production.How the Deductions Break DownCOO John Engel...
Long before he ran a multibillion-dollar company, Michael Polk was a teenager in southern Connecticut with a homemade weather station in his yard. The son of parents who had recently arrived in the United States, he grew up watching his family value independence and hard work above nearly everything else. Though he came from a household full of musical talent, his own interests pointed toward math and science rather than the arts.That curiosity...
Yazan Al Homsi’s Due Diligence Approach from Vancouver For venture investors working with emerging technologies, enthusiasm is only one part of the equation. Yazan Al Homsi’s public comments suggest that disciplined due diligence remains central to how he evaluates opportunities from his base in Vancouver and across international markets. The Yazan Al Homsi portfolio describes a career that combines venture capital with earlier experience...
Inside Basel Holding's Approach to Company Building. Understanding Burak Basel means looking past any single announcement and toward the pattern of choices that built it. Burak Basel's evolving strategy offers one entry point into that pattern, showing how the organization has approached its work over time and why that approach has held up even as conditions around it have shifted. It is a useful starting point precisely because it resists the...
After stepping down from Newell Brands in 2019, Michael Polk could have stayed retired. Instead, he returned to the corporate world in 2020 as chief executive of Implus LLC, a privately held fitness accessories company owned by Berkshire Partners. Polk has described the move as a kind of homecoming, one that reconnected him with parts of the job he had drifted away from during his years running a public company.Before Michael Polk Newell Brands,...
For decades, facelift patients faced a frustrating tradeoff. A surgeon could deliver a younger look or a natural one, but rarely both at once. The tightened, wind-swept appearance became a punchline, an unmistakable sign that work had been done. Dr. Andrew Jacono, a facial plastic surgeon based in New York, built his reputation on rejecting that tradeoff entirely.Rather than pulling skin taut over the same underlying structure, Dr. Andrew Jacono...
Ask Justin Fulcher what's holding back government modernization, and the answer isn't budget or ambition. It's infrastructure built for a world that no longer exists. The technology founder and former Department of Defense advisor has spent years arguing that agencies need to confront outdated systems directly before AI can deliver any real benefit.A System Built For 1975Fulcher's diagnosis is blunt. He has written that core government systems,...
Many people expect their financial advisor to offer reassurance, especially during volatile markets or uncertain times. Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, pushes back against that expectation, arguing that comfort is not always the same thing as good advice."It's not our job to make people feel good because they saw something on CNBC," Gold says, describing the guiding principle behind his Westport...
Behind any well-known surgical technique is a practice built to sustain it. Dr. Andrew Jacono performs roughly 250 extended deep plane facelifts every year from his Manhattan office, a volume that reflects both demand and two decades of refinement on a single procedure.The technique in question, the Minimal Access Deep-Plane Extended facelift, departs from the SMAS approach that has defined facelift surgery for years. Rather than separating skin...
Chief executives often get cast as distant visionaries, but Michael Polk sees the job differently. After more than 40 years leading companies both large and small, the former Newell Brands chief executive says the role looks nothing like the stereotype, and he believes it needs to keep changing to match what markets and employees now expect.Public Company PressuresPolk spent much of his career at major corporations, including Kraft, Unilever,...