Inside the ICE House

Genius Sports supplies official data to sportsbooks, market makers, and prediction markets fighting for the same customers. CEO Mark Locke goes Inside the ICE House to discuss why regulation will evolve while demand for wagering endures. He explains why official league data is becoming the standard for settlement and what drove the launch of Prediction.com. Locke also shares how partnerships with...

Nuclear is back at the center of the energy conversation, and Centrus is racing to rebuild America’s domestic fuel supply chain. CEO Amir Vexler goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how the war in Ukraine, surging power demand, and the push for energy independence have reshaped the industry. He breaks down HALEU, the dense fuel powering next-generation microreactors, and why traditional LEU enrich...

Circle has launched Arc Mainnet, which CEO Jeremy Allaire calls the company’s most significant launch since USDC itself. CCO Kash Razzaghi goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how the institutional-grade blockchain, backed by founding validators including ICE, Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, and DTCC, is built around privacy, trust, and instant settlement. He explains why AI agents will transact very...

Private markets are entering a moment where the macro is tightly linked but investment outcomes are increasingly scattered. HarbourVest's Scott Voss goes Inside the ICE House to unpack "idiosynchronicity," the theme driving the firm's 2026 mid-year outlook. He explores how AI has become an asset class of its own and why the IPO window is open but highly selective. Voss also examines the blurring l...

George Acheampong, a financial advisor and founder of Capitalwize, joins Bilal Little on ETF Central to discuss how he built a marketing-driven client acquisition engine for his RIA. He traces his path from MassMutual to launching his own firm in 2017 and creating Melanin Money, which began as a T-shirt brand and now drives over 80% of new front-end revenue through organic content, free master cla...

VICI Properties has spent nearly a decade proving that casinos, golf courses, and entertainment venues can anchor one of the most resilient corners of commercial real estate. CEO Ed Pitoniak goes Inside the ICE House to discuss the triple net lease model behind VICI's portfolio and the five investment criteria the company uses to evaluate new categories, from pickleball to pilgrimage golf. He expl...

York Space Systems has spent 15 years industrializing satellite manufacturing, moving the industry from billion-dollar, decade-long builds to standardized platforms fielded in just seven months. Founder, President and CEO Dirk Wallinger goes inside the ICE House to discuss how proliferated constellations create resilience, why competition sharpens rather than threatens York's edge, and how the com...

Richard Drew, an AP photographer for 56 years, joins Inside the ICE House 25 years after capturing The Falling Man, one of 9/11's most haunting images. He recounts abandoning a Fashion Week shoot to rush downtown, and how his camera's continuous shutter caught the now-iconic sequence without him realizing it in the moment. Drew reflects on surviving the towers' collapse and why he believes today's...

Hershey is entering a new era of growth by reimagining a 130-year-old legacy for the next generation of snackers. Chief Growth and Marketing Officer Stacy Taffet goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how the company balances bold innovation with the tried-and-true brands consumers grew up loving. She explores how AI-powered insights, premiumization, and category expansion are reshaping Hershey's po...

Christina Shim, IBM's Chief Sustainability Officer, goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how energy, materials, and market access have become defining business challenges shaped by AI demand, geopolitics, and supply chain concentration. She explains how IBM embeds sustainability directly into existing enterprise workflows rather than treating it as a standalone initiative. Shim details IBM's use o...

As ETF Central surpasses 30 episodes, host Bilal Little looks back at some of the most memorable conversations that have shaped the show. From ETF issuers and financial advisors to industry influencers and innovators, Bilal revisits key insights, standout moments, and the biggest themes driving today's ETF landscape. It's a reflection on the ideas, trends, and market forces that continue to influe...

Sustainability has evolved from a standalone marketing initiative into a metric woven throughout the modern supply chain, and few companies sit closer to that shift than Blue Yonder. Chief Sustainability Officer Saskia van Gendt goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how carbon emissions, waste reduction, and ESG risk are becoming embedded into everyday supply chain decisions. She explores how AI is...

GXO is marking its five-year anniversary as a public company by shifting from an M&A-driven playbook to a focus on organic growth. CEO Patrick Kelleher goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how AI and humanoid robotics are transforming warehouse operations and worker productivity. He shares how GXO is winning new business in aerospace, defense, and data centers by leaning into specialized industry...

Stifel CEO Ron Kruszewski joins Inside the ICE House to mark 30 years leading the 136-year-old firm and reflect on navigating constant change. He explains why he sees AI as a powerful accelerator rather than a replacement for human judgment, and why he's betting Stifel's business on the enduring value of human relationships. Kruszewski warns against chasing trends like tokenization without heeding...

Phil Rosen joins Inside The ICE House to unpack Bitcoin's 30% surge, tying most of the gain to the Treasury's buyback announcement and noting the pullback after Jackson Hole. He stays structurally bullish on Bitcoin, pointing to currency debasement as the real long-term driver regardless of Fed noise. On small caps, he flags the Russell 2000's 25% rally as less impressive against a flat five-year...

Adam Yofan, a wealth advisor and consultant with Focus Partners, joins Bilal Little on ETF Central to discuss how wealthy families approach investment and estate planning. Yofan shares his path from CPA to Smith Barney broker to building a planning-focused practice now part of Focus Partners, where he coaches roughly 800 advisors full-time. He argues that an advisor's real value lies not in the pl...

Brixmor is redefining what open-air retail can be, with CEO Brian Finnegan leading a portfolio of 350 shopping centers that drew 900 million visits over the past year. Finnegan goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how Brixmor curates a merchandising mix of grocers, off-price retailers, and local favorites that turn shopping centers into true community hubs. He explores why physical retail continue...

Jim Filter is only the fifth CEO in Schneider National's 90-plus-year history, stepping into the role as regulatory changes reshape trucking and logistics capacity. He goes Inside the ICE House to unpack how Schneider is using AI, autonomous vehicles, and a rebalanced fleet strategy to stay ahead of the shift. Filter discusses growth opportunities in Mexico, a disciplined approach to M&A, and why...

With markets noisier and more uncertain than ever, Dimensional Fund Advisors founder David Booth goes Inside the ICE House to make the case that staying calm is not just good advice — it's backed by a century of data. He discusses his new book, Stay Calm, and why the same principles that help people navigate life's uncertainties are the ones that lead to long-term investing success. Booth challeng...

Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit goes Inside the ICE House to challenge the foundational assumptions of modern drug discovery, arguing that AI will enable medicines that work with the body's natural complexity rather than against it. He discusses Inceptive's partnership with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and why their RNA interference platform and rich data history make them a uniquely powerful AI collabor...

Formation Bio is rewriting the rules of drug development at a time when AI is accelerating drug discovery far faster than the industry can bring new therapies to patients. CEO Ben Liu goes Inside the ICE House to explain why the real bottleneck in pharma isn't finding promising drug candidates, it's developing them efficiently and at scale. He unpacks Formation Bio's AI-native model, which acquire...

Clark Allen, Head of Product at Horizon Investments, joins Bilal Little on ETF Central to discuss the firm's rapid growth to more than $4 billion in ETF assets and its advisor-first approach to product development. Allen shares his journey from CPA and quantitative researcher to leading Horizon's expanding ETF platform, highlighting the firm's use of systematic, options-based strategies to help ad...

Third Coast Bancshares Founder and CEO Bart Caraway joins Inside the ICE House to discuss building a Texas-based community bank from a vision into a publicly traded company now listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He reflects on launching the bank in 2008 at the onset of the Great Recession and how a commitment to servant leadership and community impact has driven the bank's growth. He also high...

Finance of America SVP of Finance Michael Fant joins Inside the ICE House to discuss how the company has grown into the largest originator and servicer of reverse mortgages in the United States, helping seniors tap into their home equity to fund retirement. He shares how Finance of America has shifted the perception of reverse mortgages from a product of last resort to a sophisticated financial pl...

Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly joins Inside the ICE House to explain how Ginkgo is building the infrastructure to make biology programmable at scale — automating the lab work that has long bottlenecked scientific progress and offering experimentation as a cloud-based service to pharma, agriculture, and academic researchers. Kelly also details how a landmark collaboration with OpenAI demonstrated...