Inside the ICE House

Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners, leads with a simple mantra: “#1 or N/A”. He wants his firm to either be the top in what it does, or steer clear, then builds a best-in-class offering to solve it. Over the arc of his career, which has spanned well beyond mercurial swings of the markets, he transformed an iconic brokerage shop into a multi-faceted financial ser...

Making sense of energy markets goes well beyond the basic understanding of macroeconomics & the industry. Integrating & adjusting to the real-world dynamics that change the market’s tune require the improvisational skills of a musician. Rusty Braziel, CEO & Principal Energy Markets Consultant for RBN Energy, combines his skill as a musician & his experience in the energy markets to serve up his da...

Brad Stone, Bloomberg’s Senior Executive Editor for Global Technology, covers high-tech companies, startups, cybersecurity, and internet trends around the world. His most recent book, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, builds on his 2013 bestseller as a gateway to how technology changes lives. He joins the podcast to talk about scoops in Silicon Valley and how compani...

Founder Collective, the seed-stage VC fund that David Frankel co-founded in 2009, has found success by investing in founders who are “all over it,” regardless of what the “it” is.  This anti-thematic philosophy has helped Founder Collective get in on the ground floor on everything from UBER (NYSE:UBER) to off-shore oyster farming. Coming off the recent listing of Coupang (NYSE:CPNG) and Olo (NYSE:...

Jay Sugarman, Chairman and CEO of iStar (NYSE: STAR) and Safehold (NYSE: SAFE), is on a mission to unlock the value of the ground beneath our feet. In 2017, Jay launched Safehold to modernize the ground lease business and do for buildings what net lease did for commercial real estate. His career has flourished with a contrarian view that gave him control of undervalued assets, from bowling alleys...

A pair of guests joined us for this week’s podcast: Riverwood Capital Partners Co-founder Francisco Alvarez-Demalde and Insider CEO & Co-founder Hande Cilingir. Francisco and Hande discussed how tech hubs are flourishing in all corners of the planet, including Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Francisco and Hande view markets through a prism that reveals entrepreneurship is univer...

Brigadier General Ty Seidule (Ret.), a member of the DoD’s commission reviewing bases and other military instillations bearing names linked to the Confederacy, explains what’s in a name. Seidule, the former head of the history department at West Point and author of Robert E. Lee and Me, a Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, is cutting through the mythology that he grew up surro...

Ray Martinez, President & Co-Founder of EVERFI, joined the podcast to share how the notion of providing students with free Financial Literacy education has grown into one of the largest TechEd companies. EVERFI’s technology platform provides dynamic educational experiences on tough topics, from financial literacy to social justice. Ray explains how EVERFI’s unique business model of partnering with...

Barney Reynolds, the global head of Shearman & Sterling’s financial services practice, helps clients navigate the legal thicket of the post-Brexit world. A firm believer that Britain’s common law system nurtures innovation, Barney has been in the middle of the Brexit debate since the 2016 referendum in which the U.K. voted to leave the EU. Now that it’s done, Barney outlines how London can lead a...

Mark Hawkins, the longtime CFO of Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), helped steward a sixfold growth of the tech giant by keeping close to customers and even closer to his values. Hailed as an archetype of the modern CFO, Mark unpacks ‘stakeholder capitalism’ and how it’s changing how companies interrelate with customers, employees, investors, and the community. Keeping true to his motto, he is embarking on h...

Barry McCarthy, President and CEO of Deluxe (NYSE:DLX), has led the storied name in business solutions through a technological and organizational transformation resulting in what he calls One Deluxe. While reports of the death of checks, to paraphrase Twain, have been greatly exaggerated, Deluxe now partners with businesses from the smallest Mom & Pop Shops to Fortune 500 giants to solve their com...

It turns out that spending billions of dollars on online advertising is an exercise of quality over quantity. Digital Media Solutions (NYSE: DMS) has crafted a technology ecosystem of brand-to-consumer interactions and online marketplaces that pairs digital eyeballs with opportunities. Going public through a SPAC merger during a pandemic year, DMS Co-Founder and CEO Joe Marinucci has his team pois...

“Carbonomics” -- the term ICE’s Gordon Bennett introduced our listeners to last year -- is already shaping our future. With the “merit order” of energy supply shifting, we’re witnessing the rise of natural gas and other cleaner fuels. On his return to the ICE House, the visionary Mr. Bennett is joined by Spark Commodities’ Tim Mendelssohn to raise the curtain on ICE’s two new LNG Futures Contracts...

Ken Goldman’s financial acumen and steady hand on the balance sheet has been sought after commodities by Silicon Valley Tech companies over an era spanning five decades. A seven-time CFO of publicly-traded companies, he has led a company to its IPO in each of the last three decades. Now the President of Hillspire LLC, the family office of Google’s former Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, Ken joins th...

Hope Jarkowski, the Head of Equities at the New York Stock Exchange, makes her inaugural visit Inside the ICE House to look back on a wild year on the anniversary of the March 2020 market correction. ICE’s longtime Co-Head of Government Affairs, Hope is armed for her new role with deep experience working on regulatory issues to help drive the NYSE’s stature as the premier global equities exchange...

Brad Metzler has written bestselling thrillers, told the stories of the biggest DC Comics superheroes, shared the tales of real life-heroes in an award-winning children’s series, and created several televisions shows. He succeeds by following three axioms: Heroes are Ordinary People; write what you need in your own life; and always give something new a try. Brad’s most recent book, A NEW DAY, show...

The closest neighboring country to Australia is Papua New Guinea, almost 1,500 miles away. Sometimes, that detached, unemotional remove can help an investor make the best bets. That’s a benefit that Hamish Douglass says helps deliver the kind of investment results Magellan Financial Group has become known for. Hamish takes us on a tour of the investing world, from the electrical grid in Texas to t...

Goodbye, trusty stethoscope, hello mainstream medical imaging, powered by machine learning and backed by a global network. Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, Founder and Chairman of Butterfly Network (NYSE:BFLY) has a long track record of solving and scaling the impossible. He stepped Inside the ICE House to lay out his mission to make healthcare accessible to everyone, beginning with the journey that took Bu...

Picking the right line down the steeps takes time to master, and still can result in disaster. The same is true for running a mountain resort in the middle of a pandemic. The days of wood skis and rustic lodges have given way to data, technology, capital, and snowmaking, snowmaking, snowmaking. Chip Seamans, President of Windham Mountain Resort, skied up to the ICE House to talk about how the indu...

Drawing strength and inspiration from his time on the NCAA Champion Michigan State basketball squad, Mat Ishbia used his relentless drive to change the trajectory of mortgage lending as the CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage (NYSE: UWMC). We caught up with Mat following UWM’s record-breaking SPAC combination to discuss how his team focused transformed his business from a 12 person shop to an 8,000-e...

Small business entrepreneurs are the cornerstone of the U.S. economy, but its foundation has shifted under digital transformation, the pandemic, and red tape, with many expected to shutter by the end of 2021. Armed with the right tools and data, a fatal diagnosis can be averted with an infusion of capital. Stephen Daffron, who led Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB) through a transformation culminating in...

Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington tracks President-elect Abraham Lincoln’s railroad pilgrimage from Springfield, Illinois through the industrial spine of America, to his rendezvous with destiny at the U.S. Capitol. in the face of Confederate succession, assassination attempts, and political intrigue, he made it to his destination under cloak of darkness. Professor Ted Widmer recons...

Mark Ein, Founder and CEO of Capitol Investment Corporation V (NYSE:CAP.UT), has a 30 year track record of  creating and acquiring growth companies spanning many industries, including five SPAC investments. Even before SPACs were making headlines, Mark and his team at Capital Investment Corp were bringing the vehicle to market, ushering in a new era of SPACs. Mark stepped inside the ICE House to d...

During his 41 years at the top of a corporate organizational chart, Jerre Stead, Chairman and CEO of Clarivate (NYSE:CCC), has led 11 public companies, employed over 400,000 people, and completed 200 acquisitions. He leaned on all that experience to make sure his current company thrived as it completed five acquisitions & transitioned to a remote environment. He joins the podcast to discuss Clariv...

We spend most of our time indoors but, for many of us, it took a pandemic to get us focused on the indoor environment. As long as, it was warm in winter and cool in summer, it was fine. Dan Diehl, President & CEO of Aircuity, steps Inside the ICE House to imagine a future where your building facilities operator might be more important to your health than your doctor. Aircuity equips schools, REITs...