Inside the ICE House

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...

From scheduling to follow up, meetings can often breed more headaches than helpful solutions. Automated scheduling software Calendly takes the metronomic rhythm out of scheduling and gives you back control of your time. Tope Awotona, Calendly’s CEO, describes emigrating from Nigeria to the U.S., how his career in software sales led him to becoming an entrepreneur, and why he loves working in Atlan...

At the NYSE, we usually focus on the bulls and the bears. Today we turn to the red and the blue. Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent for MSNBC and NBC News, joins the podcast to explain how the decade of Clinton and Gingrich, Mario Cuomo and Ross Perot, and Al Gore and George Bush, was the prelude to our current political situation. Steve’s book “The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and th...

Growth IQ by Tiffani Bova,  Salesforce’s Global Customer Growth & Innovation Evangelist, explores the pathways and pitfalls facing every business seeking to expand market share and grow revenue. She stopped by the ICE House to explore the strategies behind the recent successes of companies from McDonalds to John Deere to Kylie Cosmetics. During the conversation, we discover how the paths to growth...

Despite a volatile 2018 and an increasingly complex landscape, the U.S. markets remain the envy of the world. Justin Schack, Managing Director and Partner at Rosenblatt Securities, joins the podcast to help listeners understand and navigate the rapidly changing equity markets.  In addition to his role at Rosenblatt, Justin has become a prolific market commentator in the press and his analysis is s...

Just a few months ago, Smartsheet’s CEO Mark Mader stood on the New York Stock Exchange Bell Podium to announce his company’s successful IPO following years of hard work building a company that lives its “work different” motto. Mark returned to the NYSE to update us on how Smartsheet has continued to grow and transform. As 2019 gets underway, Mark shares what lies in the future for Smartsheet and...

Scientific breakthroughs depend on the development and deployment of cutting edge tools. One of the companies that laboratories across the globe turn to for testing solutions is QIAGEN (NYSE:QGEN). Peer Schatz, QIAGEN’s CEO, gave Inside the ICE House a masterclass on how the company is working with the science community to create the tests and equipment needed for infectious diseases control; canc...

The Naval SEAL Foundation was established in 2000 to serve U.S. Navy SEALs, Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen, Naval Special Warfare support personnel and their families. The Foundation’s CEO Robin King and DJ Haley, a former Navy SEAL and Foundation Board Member, take us through how a small organization originally focused on scholarships and educational opportunities has grown to provide im...

Intercontinental Exchange recently welcomed a new neighbor to Broad Street, Fearless Girl. The statue, commissioned by State Street Global Advisors and created by sculptor Kristen Visbal to promote State Street’s SHE Index Fund, has become enduring symbol calling for change. Following the arrival ceremony outside the New York Stock Exchange, State Street’s Chief Marketing Officer, Stephen Tisdale,...

As President of Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer spends his time crisscrossing the planet to investigate the current state of global affairs and sharing his analysis of geopolitical risks. He founded his firm in 1998 to provide political risk research and consultation services to Wall Street’s biggest names, but continues to explore the boundaries of how every person can better understand the world arou...

The Block’s Senior Correspondent, Frank Chaparro, once a wunderkind at Business Insider, is now exclusively on the crypto beat, just in time to cover the cleansing process of Bitcoin’s bear market. He’s on the trail of the comings & goings of the industry’s top talent, & probing how exchanges, banks & institutions are dipping their toes into an ocean of digital assets. Chaparro gives a candid view...

Recorded at CoinDesk’s Consensus:Invest Conference, Bakkt’s CEO Kelly Loeffler and ICE’s Chairman and CEO Jeff Sprecher’s chat with the MIT Media Lab’s Michael Casey. Bakkt plans to roll out the world’s first 1-day physically delivered Bitcoin contract in 2019, allowing institutions and consumers alike to seamlessly buy, sell, store, and spend the digital asset. While Bitcoin’s value may rise and...

As President and COO of ICE Data Services, Lynn oversees much of the connective tissue -- the flow of data around the world -- that knits together the cornerstones of Intercontinental Exchange. Martin looks back at ICE’s acquisitions and product developments that have served as the building blocks of ICE -- pricing and analytics, exchange data and connectivity -- and offers a forecast for the data...

Seaspan Corporation’s Chairman David Sokol is setting the course for the world’s largest independent owner and operator of containerships. He shares how his business philosophy of “pleased, but not satisfied” guided him from early on in Omaha to his current watch at Seaspan. Over the past year, Sokol has armed the company with new leadership, overhauled its financials, and embarked on an M&A plan...

John Pettigrew, CEO of National Grid PLC, is focused on transforming utilities to become greener, more efficient, and technological to prepare for an uncertain future of climate change, customer needs, and an uncertain political environment. National Grid, which operates electric and gas utilities in the United States and Great Britain, is driving the conversation around carbon usage and the imple...

Melinda Richter, Global Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s JLABs, enters the ICE House to explain how JNJ is empowering entrepreneurs to bring healthcare ideas from concept to consumer. Melinda shares her journey from growing up in Goodsoil, Saskatchewan to becoming a leader in the start-up culture of life science. Under her stewardship, JLABs has grown to 13 global locations and helped over 4...

Betty Liu, Executive Vice Chairman of the NYSE, brings years of knowledge and insight about the needs of CEOs and their businesses, from those nascent start-up days to the moment when the founder stands on the podium to ring the opening bell of their IPO. Fresh off a trip to the Far East, Betty shares what she has learned about navigating between the business cultures of the East and West, becomin...

Randall Lane, Forbes Media’s Chief Content Officer, sat down with the NYSE’s Executive Vice Chairman Betty Liu at this year’s Interbrand Best Global Brands Summit for a wide ranging conversation from how a new generation of entrepreneurs is reshaping the world to the evolution of going public to ways the blockchain can combat fake news.  Betty and Randall also discuss how modern brands make and ke...