Inside the ICE House

Millie Arora and her colleagues at ReD Associates defy the norm of strategy consultants. They strive to uncover how human behavior influences the decisions leaders make and employ the social sciences to help businesses see their clients, their opportunities, and the world more clearly. Millie brings us on a journey into her work in “fast and slow money,” how different generations approach financia...

Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO of Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), presided over the largest software IPO in the NYSE’s history, but it wasn’t his first rodeo. Snowflake is the third company Frank has taken public, and the lessons that shaped his career are part of his new book Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity. Frank shares the secret...

From guitar heroes to natural gas and geopolitics, Nick DeIuliis, President and CEO of CNX Resources (NYSE: CNX), covers a lot of ground. The Pittsburgh-based company that plays a leading role in natural gas development and production in the Appalachian basin, CNX in an integral provider of energy in the U.S. Nick shares how CNX Resources is implementing an ESG strategy that focuses on the power o...

Chart Industries (NYSE: GTLS) builds and designs the equipment and services for cryogenic liquification — literally keeping things cool and under pressure. Jill Evanko, Chart’s President and CEO, joined us Inside the ICE House (the perfect setting) to chart how Chart works with clients to transport, store, and use compressed gas. She laid out how Chart is helping its customers achieve their ESG go...

Tracy Skeans, Chief Operating Officer and Chief People Officer of Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), has helped position the world’s largest restaurant company for continued growth over the past several years by combining a people-first approach, investing in infrastructure and future business strategies, and using technology to enhance the customer and employee experience. She explains how having a fundame...

As we approach the end of 2021, some of the most notable SPAC mergers of the year focused on the energy transition, a hallmark of the globe’s long march to net-zero carbon emissions. Sarah Morgan, the head of Vinson & Elkins’ M&A and Capital Markets Group, visited the library to break down prospects for the 500+ SPACs that are still searching for a target before their trusts expire, with many hunt...

Berry Global (NYSE: BRY) is working with its customers to quicken the pace toward a more circular economy that reduces plastic waste. Tom Salmon, Chairman and CEO of the big manufacturer of plastic products, visited the NYSE recently to attend the recent Alliance to End Plastic Waste Summit. He sat down with us to talk about the critical role that polymers play in all of our lives, and how his com...

Even as the process of buying a home becomes more digital and technology driven, the act remains a deeply personal one. CEO Mary Ann McGarry and President Terry Schmidt are leading Guild Mortgage Company (NYSE: GHLD) through a period of unprecedented modernization and growth. They’ve remained laser-focused on helping everyone secure the financing to get the home of their dreams. Mary Ann and Terry...

There was a time when you could buy a share of the Boston Celtics on the New York Stock Exchange during the daylight trading hours, then watch Larry Bird dismantle NBA opponents at the Boston Garden with his devastating jump shot and pinpoint passing by night. Legendary columnist Dan Shaughnessy brings the era back to life in his latest book, Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtic...

Gregory Zuckerman, author of A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, spent the past 22 months diving deep into the companies and personalities developing a defense to the pandemic. Greg returns to the podcast to share the vibrant story of perseverance, inspiration, and triumph that culminated in the creation of not one but several shots to end a...

Ross Trenary is CFO of LevelTen Energy, a leading provider of transaction infrastructure for the renewable energy economy. In October, ICE joined in the company’s Series C funding to broaden its reach into new markets. From punk rock to finance, Ross explains how complexity and chaos are connected & why it’s important to be your authentic self. He discusses the trends affecting energy markets, in...

Jack Hartung, CFO of Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG), explains how Chipotle leverages its mission of providing fresh food with integrity to create value on the balance sheet. The result? Exceeding the expectations of its employees, partners, and customers. Jack and CEO Brian Niccol have the company poised to win in the digital economy through investment in innovations, from Chipotlanes to robot...

Mark Carney, the former Bank of England Governor and now the UN’s point man on climate change, gives us an after-action report on Glasgow, unpacking how global leaders in the public and private sectors are planning — and now ponying up resources, to the tune of $130 trillion — to fund ambitious climate goals. The one-time Harvard hockey goalie and now Vice Chair of Brookfield Asset Management has...

From climate change to cyber threats, the energy grid faces many threats — keeping the electrons flowing requires exhaustive planning and excellent execution. For decades, the energy industry has turned to Tom Fanning, Chairman & CEO of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), for his leadership to ensure we get our power from a reliable, safe, and secure grid. Tom discusses how his career path gave him the t...

Innovators may dream what is possible, but to turn those dreams into reality requires the often-overlooked complex networks of hardware that surround us. Terrence Curtin, CEO of TE Connectivity (NYSE:TEL), has devoted his career to making the connections that drive the world. He explains how TE Connectivity’s engineers partner with thousands of companies to bring disruptive technology to scale by...

An episode unlike any we’ve done: Eduardo “Duca” Cassol and Roberta Becker Montibeller are Brazilian engineers and problem solvers who’ve chronicled the last four years of their lives for a quarter million regular followers on YouTube. Their addictive show is called Odd Life Crafting, centering on their obsessive restoration and refit of a steel sailboat called, oddly, Odd. We make a connection wi...

Nicholas Fink, CEO of Fortune Brands Home & Security (NYSE: FBHS), is in the business of making our homes beautiful, operational, and safe. Nick takes us on his journey from the spirits industry to where he calls home now: our homes. He discusses the major trends shaping the residential market, including plumbing, cabinetry, outdoors & security. We dwell on how Fortune Brands’ portfolio the leadin...

Companies must be able to pivot and adapt to whatever their clients and the broader business environment throw their way. Since a CEO can’t call timeout in the middle of a quarter, the longtime boss of Lincoln Financial (NYSE: LNC), Dennis Glass, knows that success is born in planning, well before execution. Dennis explains how careful preparation has been his secret weapon in building an effectiv...

Katie Koch, Goldman Sachs’ Co-Head of Fundamental Equity, has launched two ETFs with her team to help identify the winners in the climate transition and the newest tech companies that are reshaping our world: the Goldman Sachs Future Planet Equity ETF (NYSE ARCA: GSFP) and the Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity ETF (NYSE ARCA: GTEK). Katie shares how her background prepared her for a life in...

Dan Amos, Chairman and CEO of Aflac Inc. (NYSE: AFL), deploys deceptively simple principles of risk management: Don’t risk a lot for a little. Never risk more than you can afford to lose. Consider the odds. Those are the north stars that guide the company Dan’s father and uncles founded. He tells the story of growing his family firm into a Fortune 200 company by trusting people and encouraging div...

The NYSE and Intrinsic Exchange Group have partnered on a whole new way to unlock the value stored in the natural world by using an equity exchange to allow trading and investment in an innovative asset called Natural Asset Companies, or NACs. This approach brings promise to drive real progress on ESG issues. Douglas Eger, Chairman and CEO of Intrinsic Exchange Group, shares his vision for tapping...

While some stay obsessed with WallStreetBets and sending GameStop to the moon, Rosenblatt Securities’ Managing Director Justin Schack stays focused on something more fundamental: making sure market structure can handle the pressure, and that investors receive fair, orderly, and efficient price information for every trade. He returns to the podcast to discuss the massive influx of retail trading, h...

As the first leader of the U.S. Cyber Command, four-star Army Gen. Keith Alexander recognized that safeguarding America’s cybersecurity compelled collaboration between the government, private sector, and our allies. After a career that also saw him lead the National Security Agency, Gen. Alexander is leading a new team at IronNet (NYSE: IRNT) that’s bringing the power of collective defense to the...

For nearly a quarter century, since he produced the first interview of Osama bin Laden, the threat of terrorism and its implications for national security has been the focus of Peter Bergen’s prolific work. The most recent of his nine titles closes the book on bin Laden, charting his rise and fall and world that passed him by. Peter then turns his focus to today’s world, the end of the U.S. presen...

Michael Arad’s design for the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center was selected from more than 5,000 entries in a global competition. As the 20th anniversary of the attacks approaches, he recalls his journey of imagining the memorial and its features, and the challenges of memorializing and mourning the victims. Michael also shares his plans for the memorial at the Mother Emanu...