Month: July 2026

Ultra high net worth families are asking more pointed questions before hiring an advisor, according to Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut. Families now want to know about an advisor’s coordination experience and whether a firm’s leadership will still be engaged years into a relationship, not just at the…

Running a public company means answering to investors constantly, something Michael Polk Newell Brands knows well after decades atop some of the biggest names in consumer goods. The former Newell Brands chief executive says that balancing act shaped much of his leadership philosophy, even as his career eventually took him somewhere very different. Life Under…

Trust does not arrive quickly in healthcare or defense, two sectors where Justin Fulcher has spent his career and where he has built a reputation for patient, methodical execution rather than flashy announcements or quick wins. He started young. At 21, Fulcher co-founded RingMD in 2013, a telemedicine platform built to connect patients across Asia…

Few executives walk away from a public company boardroom to run a smaller, privately owned business, but Michael Polk did exactly that. After retiring as chief executive of Newell Brands in 2019, he returned to work in 2020 as CEO of Implus LLC, a portfolio company of Berkshire Partners focused on fitness accessories. The decision…

There is no shortage of ambition when federal agencies talk about artificial intelligence. Pilot programs launch, vendors make presentations, and leadership teams endorse modernization roadmaps. What happens next is often less encouraging. Justin Fulcher, who has advised on technology modernization from inside the Department of Defense, has a clear view of why these efforts frequently…

To understand Colcom Foundation, it helps to start with the woman who created it. Cordelia S. May founded the organization in Pittsburgh in 1996, but her commitment to environmental stewardship predates that by more than four decades. By 1952, at just 23 years old, she was already giving to family planning causes out of concern…