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IHOP and Applebees, the big names of Dine Brands Global (NYSE: DIN), are woven into the fabric of American culture and communities across the globe. Steve Joyce, its CEO, dropped anchor at the Exchange to share how the company navigates past changing tastes with revamped menus, technology-aided service, and viral marketing campaigns. At the core of Steve’s success, a focus on the people and his br...

Longview, Texas is the point of origin of what was, during World War II, the longest petroleum pipeline ever built in the world. The Big Inch, as it was known, carried over 261 million barrels of crude oil to the East Coast from 1943 to 1945, fueling the efforts to win the war. Longview is also the point of origin of Scott Hill, CFO of Intercontinental Exchange, who left the Friday Night Lights of...

This episode of SLICE Uncut brings listeners the full conversation between NYSE Executive Vice Chairman Betty Liu and SAP’s Cloud Business Group President Jennifer Morgan on integrating cloud solutions, the impact of SAP’s acquisition of Qualtrics, and how to best manage teams from 1 to 1000. Slice is a media collaboration between ICE and Cheddar that helps the audience cut through the noise to ge...

Sen. David Perdue of Georgia is relatively new to Washington, but has decades of experience in the private sector working in the U.S. and China, including serving as CEO of both Reebok and Dollar General (NYSE:DG). Sen. Perdue was seen as a turnaround specialist before hearing the call to public service in 2014, but orchestrating a turnaround in Washington, D.C. might be his biggest feat of all.  ...

The executive producers behind Reid Hoffman’s popular podcast, Masters of Scale, share how they cracked the code of creating unique content and are breaking the podcast mold. 2019 is shaping up as an important year for the medium’s growth with transactions such as Spotify’s (NYSE:SPOT) combined $340 million dollar acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor. The deal brings big money into an industry that,...

Venture capital legend Marc Andreessen hailed Jennifer Tejada’s hiring at PagerDuty (NYSE: PD) as “like adding octane to jet fuel,” and her company’s IPO took off using afterburners. Jennifer joined us fresh from ringing the first trade bell to share her career trajectory -- which spanned from Ohio, to Australia, to the open ocean to, eventually, Silicon Valley -- and her secrets of success.    In...

Our 100th Episode drops amid a stampede of unicorns. In the past weeks, PagerDuty (NYSE:PD), Pinterest (NYSE:PINS), and Jumia (NYSE:JMIA) joined the herd of tech companies emerging into the public markets. In the wings are Uber (NYSE:UBER) and Slack (NYSE:SK). Joining us today is Jose Cobos, a former Navy SEAL and investment banker who now helps growing tech and biotech companies navigate the wate...

ICE Futures Europe President Stuart Williams has watched the futures industry grow from its nascent days to modern times. Today, ICE Futures Europe is home to futures and options contracts for crude oil, interest rates, equity derivatives, natural gas, power, coal, emissions and soft commodities. For those hedging against the future cost of jet fuel, a change in interest rates, or the cost of elec...

Chris Burggraeve’s career has included stints at iconic global brands including Proctor & Gamble (NYSE:PG), Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO), and spent five years as the Chief Marketing Officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD). He joined the podcast to discuss his recently released book, Marketing is Finance is Business: How CMO, CFO, and CEO cocreate iconic brands with sustainable pricing power in the new G...

Financial analyst Rich Repetto is like a baseball scout, half sabermatrician absorbing all kinds of data, half evaluator of on-field style. Instead of projecting the potential of an athlete, he forecasts a company’s future performance with loads of investment capital at stake. Rich took a break from interpreting how companies he follows fared in the first quarter to break down his own analytical p...

How will human judgement and Artificial Intelligence merge to make business decisions both instinctive and data driven? Genpact (NYSE:G) and its CEO NV “Tiger” Tyagarajan are charting a path to “Instinctive Enterprise” that will transform the way you work and how companies function. He joins the podcast to discuss how digitization, AI, and other emerging technologies are forcing companies, from re...

Pitting a profit-driven hedge fund manager against a power-hungry U.S. Attorney, and making the fictitious scene seem shockingly lifelike, is a weekly work of art on Showtime’s BILLIONS. David Levien, one of the show’s creators and showrunners, makes it look effortless. What’s the secret sauce, four seasons in? The devil is in the details. This week’s episode is a lesson in character building, loc...

What does it take to keep the engines of capitalism running, while simultaneously developing state of the art technology to transform global markets? Diving into this racy topic are Mayur Kapani, Chief Technology Officer at Intercontinental Exchange, along with Sridhar Masam and Alexei Lebedev, Head of Technology and Chief Software Architect, respectively, at the New York Stock Exchange. Find out...

How did Harmit Singh, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE: LEVI), find himself at the helm of a multi-billion dollar apparel company and standing atop the New York Stock Exchange bell podium, helping take the 165-year-old American icon public? “Play outside of your comfort zone,” he says. Hear Singh’s take on retail re-imagination, innovation, immigrati...

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, joined Intercontinental Exchange Chairman and CEO Jeff Sprecher on stage at FIA Boca to talk agriculture, technology, commodities, and the Trump White House. Born into a farming family in Bonaire, Georgia, Sonny’s veterinary career was disrupted by a foray into politics. He served 11 years in the Georgia State Legislature and two terms as its Govern...

Alan Murray, President & CEO of Fortune, has been at the helm of the media company through changing seasons. Put in charge during the Time, Inc. days, he steered it through Meredith Corporation’s (NYSE:MDP) purchase of the storied brand. After Fortune’s sale to Chatchaval Jiaravanon in 2018, Murray leads an independent company for the first time, on its 90th year of operation. He shares his vision...

Legendary lacrosse player Paul Rabil, founder and chief strategy officer of the newly formed Premier Lacrosse League, is disrupting the way pro sports leagues are organized and make money. Lacrosse, North America’s oldest and fastest growing sport, is up 35% in participation since 2012, and the PLL is poised to capitalize on its growth. Backed by venture capital and driven by social media and digi...

Philip K. Howard has spent a lifetime pursuing common sense cures to government excess and bloat. The patient is in critical condition: a raft of rules and regulations have infected every corner of the federal bureaucracy, from how agriculture products are harvested to how first responders can assist those at an accident scene. In the great tradition of Thomas Paine, Philip Howard is a lawyer and...

A special preview for Inside the ICE House listeners. Stacey Cunningham, the New York Stock Exchange’s President, recently recorded an episode of SAP’s podcast, “A Call to Lead,” hosted by Jennifer Morgan, SAP’s President of the Americas & Asia Pacific Japan. We’re pleased to bring you an excerpt of that excellent conversation. The full conversation on Stacey’s approach to leadership, and what it...

Richard Edelman, President and CEO of Edelman, one the world’s leading marketing and communications firms, is a global evangelist for measuring how stakeholders perceive global firms and providing prescriptions for curing their ills. With the latest results from his 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer, Richard joined us in the library to share what the future holds for leading companies and the countries...

Exchange Traded Funds, an investment vehicle born out of the market volatility of 1987 & now representing up to 40% of trading, just faced their first big test since becoming a major player in investment strategies. Brendan McCarthy joins Inside the ICE House to explore how institutional investors reacted to 2018, based on the findings of Greenwich Associates’ 2019 U.S. Exchange Traded Funds Study...

For the winner of the Daytona 500, Victory Lane leads right up to the New York Stock Exchange. The Exchange has become an annual stop for winners of the Great American Race and Hamlin, driver of  the #11 FedEx Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, parked himself in our library for an extended pit stop conversation. Hear him talk about his team, his car, and the drive needed to go the distance.     Inside t...

Eric Hippeau is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau, the New York-based early-stage venture capital firm that ponied up early money for wildly popular media, retail, and tech brands including: Allbirds, Axios, BuzzFeed, Casper, Everlane, Giphy, Glossier, Warby Parker, and more. As they like to say, they’re not investing in the companies, they’re investing in the people who run them. A deep dive in...

Fifty years ago, Lindsay Corporation (NYSE:LNN) delivered the first Zimmatic center pivot irrigation system. Our flights over the heartland were never the same. Lindsay’s CEO, Tim Hassinger, pivoted to the library to explain how his company’s innovation changed the landscape of American farming and charted a path of global growth through solutions for the world’s food production and infrastructure...

In 2000, Reverend Thomas Johnson and his son, Thomas IV, became the first African American father & son duo to hold simultaneous membership in the NYSE. In 1974, Reverend Johnson also became the first African American member of the American Stock Exchange. Their careers, in many ways, were similar to the thousands of people who worked alongside them, but the Johnsons, father and son, were also wer...