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A single transaction reset how investors think about Spanish ride-hailing. On Feb. 28, 2025, Uber bought a 30% stake in Auro for €220 million, a figure split between €180 million in equity and €40 million of debt. What makes the deal worth a second look is its destination. Money of that size went to a […]
Reeve Waud, Acadia Healthcare, and the Value of Leadership Continuity Continuity has been a hallmark of the Acadia Healthcare story, and Reeve Waud embodies it. He helped found the company in 2005 and still chairs its board, a span of involvement few founders match. The January 2026 appointment of Debbie Osteen as chief executive carried […]
Operating businesses across multiple jurisdictions is one of the most demanding challenges in modern entrepreneurship. London-based entrepreneur Burak Basel has built Basel Holding into a group that does exactly this, managing operations across Europe, the Middle East, and several other regions with what observers describe as admirable organizational discipline. The complexity of cross-border operations extends […]
Judd Zebersky has described the early years of building Jazwares as an education unlike anything his legal training prepared him for. He landed in China in 1997 with no manufacturing background and spent months touring factories in remote parts of the country’s southern provinces. He was trying to learn an entire industry from the inside […]
The financial services industry faces persistent pressure to find professionals who can handle complex data with accuracy and creativity. Justin Nelson, JP Morgan Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, believes a largely untapped source of such talent already exists neurodiverse individuals and that it is the industry’s hiring practices, not the candidates, that need […]
Few philanthropic organizations can claim three decades of consistent focus on some of conservation’s most difficult challenges. The Colcom Foundation, established in Pittsburgh in 1996 by Cordelia Scaife May, is one of them. Since opening its doors, the foundation has distributed more than $500 million in grants and built a record of environmental and community […]
Few industries talk about relationships more than financial services, and few industries do less to nurture them. The transactional nature of most advisory work driven by fees, minimums, and asset thresholds tends to thin out the kind of trust that only time can build. Justin Nelson, Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, […]
Financial markets reward patience more often than speed. Yet the pull to react to short-term noise remains one of the most common sources of long-term wealth destruction, particularly at the highest asset levels. Michael Gold, Founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has spent more than two decades watching that dynamic play […]
The United States hit a significant environmental milestone in 1972 that largely went uncelebrated. In that year, the total fertility rate dropped below 2.1, the level at which a population replaces itself without growing. It has never risen above that threshold since. Colcom Foundation holds this up as proof that the country has already demonstrated […]
Capital has never been easier to access. Judgment, Michael Gold argues, is another matter. The founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has built one of the region’s notable private wealth practices around that premise, and it shapes every element of how his firm serves clients. “Access to capital is no longer […]
