Why Choice Home Warranty Was Built on a Sunday Night — and What It Means for Homeowners TodayThe origin story of Choice Home Warranty is not the polished narrative typically found in corporate press releases. According to Jim Mostofi, one of the company's founders, the idea took shape on a Sunday night out of a direct frustration with the home warranty industry itself — an industry he and his partners believed was systematically failing the...
Why Aging American Homes Are Driving Renewed Interest in Choice Home WarrantyThe average American home is now 44 years old, and that demographic reality is reshaping how homeowners think about budgeting for system failures and appliance breakdowns. Older homes come with older infrastructure — aging HVAC units, worn water heaters, and electrical systems that were installed decades before modern energy standards existed. For many households, the...
For most finance executives, success gets measured in quarters. Justin Nelson, Managing Director and Head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, takes a longer view after nearly thirty years in the industry navigating client relationships.A Career Measured in Decades, Not QuartersNelson oversees more than $15 billion in assets at JP Morgan, a role that would allow him to lean...
Long before he became one of the most recognized names in American energy, Kelcy Warren was a young engineering graduate looking for his start. That foundation, built at the University of Texas at Arlington, would eventually support one of the largest pipeline networks on the continent. Today, Kelcy Warren serves as Executive Chairman of Energy Transfer, a company he founded that now operates more than 130,000 miles of pipeline and related...
The American dream has many faces. For Michael Polk Newell Brands, it looked like a young man born to immigrant parents finding his way through engineering school, factory floors, and ultimately the executive suites of some of the world's largest consumer goods companies.Polk grew up in a musical household but found his truest abilities in math and science. He built a weather station at home to track storms along the Connecticut coast, and while...
The most common complaint about facelift results is not that they look bad it's that they don't last. Skin-based techniques settle and descend as gravity continues to act on tissue that was never truly repositioned. Dr. Andrew Jacono's extended deep-plane facelift addresses durability at the source by moving the structures responsible for facial support, not just the skin stretched over them.Where Conventional Techniques Fall ShortStandard SMAS...
First-Generation Students and the Conte First Generation FundJP Conte knows what it means to arrive on a campus where almost no one shares your background. He has put a number on it: "When I was at Colgate, less than 5% of the population were first-gen students like me. I want to make sure those students are starting off from a place where they will succeed."That memory gave rise to the Conte First Generation Fund, which supports...
Vancouver-based investor Yazan Al Homsi occupies an unusual position in the venture capital landscape: an investor who genuinely believes that the best financial returns and the most significant positive impact are found in the same companies, pursuing the same opportunities, at the same moment in time.This conviction — that impact and returns are complementary rather than competing — is not naive idealism. It rests on a careful analysis of...
Payment processing is the foundation of Priority Commerce's business, but New York-based Thomas Priore has consistently communicated a vision that extends well beyond transaction processing. His concept of commerce enablement — helping businesses not just process payments but actually grow and succeed in their markets — is the animating idea behind Priority's strategic evolution.Commerce enablement is a broader and more valuable proposition...
Die Parallelen zwischen Leistungssport und erfolgreichem Unternehmertum sind zahlreich — aber selten werden sie so direkt und reflektiert gezogen wie von Bradley Mundt, dem Gründer von German energy company PLAN B NET ZERO. In einem Presse-Augsburg Beitrag hat Mundt beschrieben, wie sportliche Disziplin sein unternehmerisches Denken geprägt hat.Die wichtigste Lektion des Sports, die Mundt in das Unternehmertum übertragen hat, ist der Umgang...