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When thinking of big time mergers of the past three decades, Wall Street memories may conjure thousands of different deals. Among the highest-profile deals, there’s a good chance Robert Kindler played a role in it. From his former M&A perch at JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) to his new home at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Kindler shares stories from his upbringing, the M&A market vagaries o...

Capital Group’s John Queen likes to drive fast. With his California race car pedigree, he’s helping to drive the firm’s new suite of ETFs, including the Capital Group Core Balanced ETF (NYSE Arca: CGBL). On the day that Capital Group convened its top clients at the NYSE, John slipped away to join us Inside the ICE House to break down how five new active ETFs are helping financial professionals cra...

When you hear the term “like a girl,” certain stereotypes often come to mind. Marketing executive Dalia Feldheim is out to change the narrative surrounding the term. In her book, DARE TO LEAD LIKE A GIRL, Feldheim shares stories from her corporate career and talks about her journey to end the “like a girl” stigma. She discusses her constant push to empower women and her fight to change the phrase...

From its inception, Panera Bread helped pioneer fast-casual dining. Born as Au Bon Pain in the early 1980’s, founder and former CEO Ron Shaich built the Panera bakery-café concept into a behemoth with over 2,000 locations. The author of the new book, KNOW WHAT MATTERS: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations, Shaich shares stories of the tough calls he made to build a big brand, and the big ide...

While 5G Technology has arrived, Kyle Malady, CEO of Verizon Business Group, isn’t just sitting around basking in its presence. He and his team are actively working on building the future of telecommunications. Malady goes Inside The ICE House to discuss the rollout of 5G and the emphasis on speed and reliability. He also discusses new innovations Verizon (NYSE:VZ) is focused on moving forward and...

Gale Klappa, Executive Chairman of WEC Energy Group (NYSE:WEC), isn’t just focused on powering Wisconsin and his 4.6 million customers across the Midwest. Klappa is helping the Badger State grow as well, while growing shareholder value at the same time. He sat down Inside the ICE House to discuss the business of WEC and its emphasis on Affordable, Reliable, and Clean (ARC) energy. A renaissance ma...

Mathias Döpfner, Chairman and CEO of Axel Springer, whose audacious acquisitions of Insider, Morning Brew and now POLITICO, have made the German company a major player in American media, is just getting started. He sees global trends of weakened democracies and eroded freedoms continuing without a revolutionary shift in trade policies. Mathias shares how his views were shaped over a career that be...

In this episode, ICE’s Gordon Bennett sits down with Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and co-founder of Climate Vault. Michael shares how his career led to the creation of Climate Vault to attach the dollars of damage done by each ton of CO2 emissions to the cost of doing business. He explains how his organization uses the ca...

Kamran Khan, Managing Director and Head of ESG for Asia-Pacific for Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB), discusses the state of ESG in Asia and across the globe. Ahead of his appearance at ICE’s Annual Climate and Capital Conference, Kamran sat down Inside the ICE to discuss the business of ESG and how his current role allows him to combine all aspects of his career from policy to business. He emphasizes the...

Dave Flitman, CEO of US Foods (NYSE:USFD) leads the foodservice distributor’s fleet of trucks, distribution centers, and 29,000+ employees that ensure your local restaurant has the raw materials to make your favorite dish. He returned to the NYSE for the first time as US Foods CEO to raise awareness for Hunger Action Month part of a nationwide campaign to ensure everyone can have food on their tab...

Jeff Ubben, Founder, Managing Partner, and Portfolio Manager of Inclusive Capital Partners, wants to engage companies and stakeholders on the hard work of combatting climate change and adapting to emerging risks. For the past five years at the helm of Inclusive Capital, Jeff has brought his experience, and dollars, to bear on company boards to elicit action and change. He ventured Inside the ICE H...

Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest, spent many years on Wall Street making “big calls on big stocks” as one of the top analysts in the industry, then climbed the ranks further through the highest echelons of financial services. She sits down Inside the ICE House to share her story of working, and winning, in a male-dominated environment, and how her experience led her to the founding...

Nick Fink, CEO of Fortune Brands Innovations (NYSE: FBIN), makes a return visit to the show to discuss the company’s “before” and “after” makeover since his first appearance on Inside the ICE House two years ago. Nick and Josh dove deep inside company’s focus on the digitization of its Water, Outdoors and Security Solutions after separating the business from its high-end cabinet business, now call...

Noah Syken, Vice President of Sports and Entertainment Partnerships at IBM (NYSE: IBM), gave us an exclusive peek behind the curtain of IBM’s Command at the Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center at this year’s US Open. Noah shared how technology and A.I. are transforming the way sports events are controlled, conducted, and consumed. Noah’s own career parallels the growth of cutting-edge cre...

Vincent Viola, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Virtu Financial, is a son of Brooklyn, a cadet of West Point, a brother of the NYMEX trading pits, and now an owner of Panthers and winner of the Prince of Wales Trophy. Vinnie’s NHL hockey team fell short of the Stanley Cup in 2023, but his team from Miami is setting its sights on the big prize in ‘24. Vinnie stopped by the NYSE Library to delve dee...

Paula DiPerna, strategic environmental advisor and former president of the Chicago Climate Exchange, joins us to discuss her latest book, "Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect our Most Precious Assets." From working with Jacques Cousteau meeting Pope Francis to creating the world’s first cap-and-trade system, DiPerna walks u...

Rostin Behnam, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair, is responsible for the commodities markets overseeing everything from corn to crude to coffee to crypto. He joins the podcast to talk about the complexity of regulating the diverse markets that touch across all of ICE’s business lines. Serving such a diverse array of products also means the CFTC is answerable to Wall Street firms, Wash...

Gary Cohn, American business leader, investor and former director of the U.S. Economic Council, reflects on overcoming obstacles and his journey from Wall Street to Washington and back. Gary joins ICE’s Amanda Hindlian to discuss everything from his upbringing to professional success, living through a history of financial crises and bringing a pro-growth, pro-business, pro-US agenda to the White H...

Vincent Mortier, Chief Investment Officer of Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager and one of the world’s top 10, joined the podcast to survey inflation expectations and where the global economy is headed from here. He shared the questions investors are asking, where he sees valuations going, and finding creativity in the investment process. He also touched on the rise of AI and whether the “AI r...

Stephan Scholl, CEO of Alight (NYSE: ALIT), is turning the disruption technology that transformed business operations and customer experience over the past decade back onto the companies themselves. His goal? Improve employee wellbeing by making it easier to navigate their benefits including healthcare, retirement plans, and more. Stephan talked about Alight’s Worklife platform, his career, and im...

Semafor co-founder and editor-in-chief Ben Smith, after writing miles worth of news articles and columns, has published his first book: TRAFFIC: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. Our ICE House conversation takes listeners on a drive from the nascent days of online media to the current digital landscape, with pitstops at key moments that defined the growth of the...

Rep. French Hill, the five-term Congressman from the 2nd District of Arkansas, returns to the ICE House during one of his frequent forays from Capitol Hill to Wall Street. The conversation starts where episode 39 left off, with the need for more business leaders and less business-as-usual in Washington. Then, Congressman Hill caught us up on his legislative work on everything from digital assets t...

Frank Bisignano, the legendary chairman, president and CEO of Fiserv (NYSE: FI), took the worn path from Brooklyn to Wall Street, but has seen success few have matched in removing the friction between buyers and sellers. After celebrating the transfer of his company’s listing from Nasdaq to the NYSE, Frank stepped Inside the ICE House to talk about the future of payments, navigating mergers and ho...

 Mandy Long, CEO of BigBear.ai (NYSE:BBAI), talks about building the diverse team and technology to provide clients with the AI powered analytics and cyber solutions to solve the problems of today and tomorrow. Since joining BigBear.ai in October 2022, Mandy has turned around the company’s prospects by focusing and systematizing the entire organization on BigBear.ai’s unique strengths.  She also d...

Michael McFall, co-CEO and co-founder of Biggby Coffee, joins the podcast to discuss “Grow: Take Your Business From Chaos to Calm.” In his second book, Mike continues the story of his career arc from minimum wage barista to cofounder to organizational leader. The pages reveal the core learnings he picked up along the way about creating the environment needed for sustained commercial success.  Mike...