Inside the ICE House

John Chen, the CEO of BlackBerry (NYSE: BB), has radically transformed the company from a struggling device manufacturer to a preeminent cybersecurity software and services company. Blackberry is now helping companies, organizations, and governments secure their digital and encrypted assets in an increasingly connected and vulnerable world. Before ringing the bell for the 14th time, he sat down to...

In a special live episode recorded at ICE’s Fixed Income Forum held at the New York Stock Exchange, Wally Adeyemo, United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, renewed the 230-year connection between Washington and Wall Street. Wally discussed Treasury’s plan for growing the economy while, at the same time, projecting U.S. economic power. He offered a readout on his recent meetings with global...

Dakin Campbell, the Chief Finance Correspondent for Insider, goes behind the scenes to chronicle how modern tech companies are tapping the capital markets in his book, “Going Public: How Silicon Valley Rebels Loosened Wall Street’s Grip on the IPO and Sparked A Revolution.”  The debut of Spotify’s shares in 2018 was the culmination of then CFO Barry McCarthy’s vision for a more efficient public of...

John Tuttle, Vice Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange and President of the newly-formed NYSE Institute, returns to the podcast to discuss how the NYSE’s $30 trillion community of listed companies can influence policy in Washington after the midterm elections and the enduring role of U.S. capital markets in foreign affairs. The NYSE Institute was launched earlier this year to formalize what the...

Chris Wright, Chair and CEO of Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT), thinks we are under valuing threats to global energy supply and its potential impact on our quality of life. Chris began his career developing the science behind fracking, allowing the United States to tap the resources to become a net positive energy producer. He is now mapping out how climate first policies by finance and politics will a...

Successful companies, both private and public, depend on their boards of directors to help leadership teams navigate the perils of running  modern companies. Few people are more qualified than Betsy Atkins, a three-time CEO whose expertise in corporate governance has led nearly 20 companies to add her to their board. Betsy says companies need to expand the aperture for potential board members to r...

In a data and technology driven world, it is hard to connect with the human on either side of the business transaction. This is where UserTesting (NYSE:USER) is able to help. The company’s CEO and Chair Andy MacMillan joins the podcast to explain how he is using human insight to inform digital solutions, the importance of empathy, and how UserTesting is giving clients a first-person understanding...

Dwight Chapin, author of THE PRESIDENT’S MAN: The Memoirs of Nixon’s Trusted Aide, helped lay out and execute President Richard Nixon’s historic trip to China in 1972. A half century later, he’s one of the few members of the traveling delegation still alive to tell the story of how it happened, and what went down on the ground when Nixon met with Mao. Fifty years after Air Force One left Shanghai,...

Bob Pisani, Senior Markets Correspondent for CNBC, has spent a quarter century on the NYSE Trading Floor covering the companies, people, and global events shaping the markets. His book, “SHUT UP & KEEP TALKING:  Lessons on Life and Investing From the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange” confirms him as a master storyteller as well. In our conversation, Bob’s perspective spans the investing world,...

Francesco Starace, CEO of Enel Group, has a simple answer for the complex problem of how the energy giant will combat climate change. He shares his vision for complete decarbonization and how the technology already exists to make that possible. Francesco has helped Enel become one of the Green Giants by investing in a portfolio of renewable resources. He has set his sights on not just fighting cli...

ICE is partnering with GreenTrees to put a real value on nature by hosting a carbon credit auction, each representing the removal of the equivalent of 250,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. GreenTrees' co-founder, Chandler Van Voorhis. joins us fresh off the stage of ICE Climate & Capital Conference to talk about the tandem strategies of reducing emissions while looking to nature to offset the h...

Our episode with Lis Smith continues our conversation on politics and the media that began on the other side of the aisle with former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. Smith, political strategist and now author of “Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story,” helped launch Pete Buttigieg from small city mayor to Presidential candidate. She has worked on over twenty campaigns during her car...

In his latest book, HOW TO INVEST: Masters on the Craft, author David Rubinstein, the co-Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group, combines his own experience in thousands of Carlyle investment committee meetings with new interviews with the world’s most successful investors. The result is a multi-stop journey through the minds of those who’ve made a mint in mainstream, alterative,...

On the 21st anniversary of 9/11, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer shares his memories of the day and explains why he has retired his traditional Twitter timeline of the experience. In the weeks that followed the attacks, President Bush’s leadership was praised by both sides of the aisle. In recent years, Ari argues that our discourse has become binary, with right or left taking sid...

As the iconic Monday Night Football music fades out over the imagery of Lumen Field on September 12, two familiar faces will greet America from the booth first made famous by Howard Cosell and Don Meredith. Joe Buck and Hall of Fame QB Troy Aikman, who’ve called games together for 20 years on another network, have joined ESPN and the Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS). Troy Aikman huddles up Inside th...

During the reign of Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan, no one navigated markets more successfully, or ruthlessly, than shadowy Jay Gould. In “AMERICAN RASCAL: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune” Author Greg Steinmetz revisits the often-overlooked robber baron. Greg traces Gould’s rise from an enterprising youth to owning 15% of all the railroads in the United States, and fortunes wo...

Brookly McLaughlin, Vice President for Corporate Affairs and Sustainability for Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), guides ICE’s ESG efforts and its Employee Development, part of ICE’s focus on human capital. Brookly shares how ICE built a strategy to target the top ESG concerns of the company’s stakeholders, and uses its own data and products to convert those goals into action. In her work with...

Malcolm Wilson, CEO of GXO Logistics Inc. (NYSE:GXO), runs the logistics and warehousing company that underpins a large chunk of the world’s supply chain. Despite continuing headwinds from COVID and geopolitical unrest, GXO succeeds by pairing their skilled workforce with cutting edge technology from cobots to drones. Malcolm visited the New York Stock Exchange to mark GXO’s first year as a public...

Samsara’s CEO and Co-founder, Sanjit Biswas, hoped for an NYSE ticker symbol that described his business in three characters. IOT was perfect. It started with a single temperature sensor and a mission to bring the Internet of Things to scale. Seven years later, Samsara provides integrated data platforms that help companies operate, resulting in increased worker safety, better efficiency, and integ...

Rishi Khosla, CEO and co-founder of OakNorth, took his own entrepreneurial experiences scaling a startup as inspiration to completely disrupt small to medium commercial debt financing. Along the way, he has helped transform how banks across the globe calculate risk. As a result, OakNorth Bank has reduced loan processing time by over 80% and helped create over 30,000 jobs. Rishi stopped by the New...

Trina Spear, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FIGS (NYSE: FIGS), is on a mission to arm the world’s 135 million healthcare workers with clothing worthy of their vital mission. Over the past decade, she and co-founder Heather Hasson have grown FIGS from selling their wares in hospital parking lots to a NYSE Listed company with new solutions for old scrubs. Trina talks about mining data, outworking her comp...

While markets move up and down, Jim Cramer’s career has come full circle. The host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” which he launched in 2005, and also co-anchor of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” is taking his mission “to level the playing field for all investors” to the market’s home field. Starting on July 18, 2022, Jim’s daily hour taking the public inside the mind of Wall Street will be broadcast from a...

Pete Stavros, Co-Head of the Americas Private Equity platform for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (NYSE:KKR), pioneered an innovative employee engagement and ownership model that KKR and others are using across their portfolio companies. The result is a better way for companies and employees to grow together after generations of an adversarial relationship between labor and management. He explains w...

With major derivatives clearing issues facing the federal government, Chris Edmonds, Chief Development Officer of Intercontinental Exchange, finds himself thrust into the role as “Explainer-in-Chief,” whether in Washington, before the House Agriculture Committee and the CFTC, or the Texas House of Representatives, when last year’s cold snap sent power rates soaring. Chris is the industry’s ardent...

James Fok, author of Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets, has spent his life and career at the monied intersection of East and West, with a front row seat to China’s increasingly antagonistic and dependent financial relationship with the United States. He joins the podcast from Hong Kong to provide his unique perspective on how technology, politics, and econo...