Inside the ICE House

Sue Thompson, executive vice president at State Street Global Advisors, joined the podcast to share her experiences on how artificial intelligence and technology innovation is changing the global economy. State Street has partnered with Kensho to launch ETFs aimed at investing in the Future of Now, from space travel to intelligent infrastructure to autonomous vehicles. The best was to identify whi...

Anthony Scaramucci, Co-Managing Partner at SkyBridge Capital, went through Washington’s revolving door as fast as just about anyone in Beltway memory. He’s back now, in the comfortable confines of New York City, with a reboot next year of his much-heralded SALT Conference and a new book -- Trump: The Blue-Collar President -- which chronicles both his own unlikely rise through Wall Street and, in p...

We make 35,000 decisions every day, but only a few choices can change our lives.  Steven Johnson, the author of 11 books as well as host of the Wonderland and American Innovations podcasts, is now out with Farsighted, exploring the complex choices that influenced world history, our own lives, and those of generations to come. The book chronicles the tools that master strategists use to predict the...

The bi-annual gathering of the Listed Company Advisory Board at the New York Stock Exchange was the perfect setting for a post-election post-mortem with Ben White, Chief Economic Correspondent for POLITICO and author of the Morning Money must-read that POLITICO publishes every weekday at 5:30 a.m. for subscribers and a critical 200 minutes later for everyone else. In this episode, Ben talks about...

Every year, Interbrand surveys the global marketplace to identify and calculate the value of the world’s leading brands. Coinciding with the release of the 2018 Best Global Brands Report earlier this month, NYSE served as host to Interbrand’s Best Global Brands Summit. Inside the ICE House was on the scene to capture the conversation. The first installment is a fireside chat hosted by Interbrand’s...

Martin Migoya, the cofounder and CEO of Globant (NYSE:GLOB), joined the podcast ahead of Globant’s Converge NY Conference on how artificial intelligence is transforming the world. Martin shares how in just 15 years, an idea crafted over drinks in a Buenos Aires bar with three friends grew into a leading global company for digital customer experiences. He has now turned his attention to how Globant...

A proud moment in the 226-year history of the New York Stock Exchange came on March 28, 1985, the day President Ronald Reagan rang our Opening Bell. Bob Spitz is the author of a monumental new biography of our 40th president: Reagan: An American Journey and joined us Inside the ICE House to talk about it. Spitz has written a substantial oeuvre of books on people and things that transformed America...

A part of Ben Jackson’s role as President of Intercontinental Exchange, is leading the strategic planning and integration of ICE’s M&A activities. He joined the podcast from Chicago, where he was attending the Futures Industry Association’s Expo 2018 to take a look back at ICE’s recent deals and preview its long-term plans. On the company’s front burner is the fixed income marketplace, a space lon...

Risto Silasmaa, Chairman of Nokia, oversaw the dramatic turnaround of Nokia from a struggling handheld device company to one of the leading providers of wireless infrastructure. He joined the podcast to talk about his new book, Transforming Nokia - The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change, which captures the company’s near demise and impressive turnaround. As Risto is positio...

Every day in London, at precisely 10:30am and 3:00pm, Intercontinental Exchange holds a fully transparent auction to establish the global benchmark price for gold. It’s known as the London Bullion Market Association Gold Price or LBMA. The pod travelled to the UK to speak to Stelios Tselikas, COO of ICE Benchmark Administration, on the drivers of the gold price: inflation, interest rates, stock ma...

Christi Shaw, President of Lilly Bio-Medicines, provides a master class on the impact of migraines on the home and the economy. She visited the ICE House for the release of Emgality, a new preventative treatment of migraines in adults and details the journey from medical research breakthrough to FDA approval. Christi shared her thoughts on improving the industry, drug prices, and what she has lear...

When entrepreneurs need to understand, strategize, and overcome growth-stifling government bureaucracy and regulatory strangulation, they turn to Bradley Tusk, master of the inside game. He launched Tusk Strategies in 2011, helping companies from UBER to Walmart win complex public campaigns. Tusk began his career in bare knuckle politics and readied a tech-heavy plan in 2016 in case his former bos...

Mark Leibovich, New York Times Magazine Chief National Correspondent and author of the new bestseller, Big Game, the NFL in Dangerous Times, spent four years embedded in the most elite club in the world. His book captures how the NFL, its owners, and Roger Goodell have become a pervasive part of US culture, while asking if the League has achieved “peak football.” Mark joins his friend and fellow P...

Joe Lockhart, the last White House Press Secretary to be on duty for an impeachment of a U.S. President, is now Vice Chairman of Public Affairs for Edelman. A trusted counselor over decades for politicians and business leaders alike, he joined the NYSE’s 2018 IR Summit to survey the upcoming midterm elections and reflect on parallels to the crises facing the White House 20 years ago.   Inside the...

New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney appears on her first-ever podcast to talk about Women’s Equality Day, changing the U.S. Constitution, and the issues she has been working on since taking office as part of 1992’s “Year of the Woman.” She shares her thoughts on the 2018 midterm elections and why the “pink tax” continues to cause women financial harm: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-500 Ins...

The enduring marketing pitch for Charles Schwab is “Talk to Chuck,” so we did. Christopher Johnson, Head of ETF Capital Markets at Charles Schwab, paid a visit to the ICE House to break down Schwab’s 2018 ETF Investor Study. As Chris told us, 91% of Millennials say ETFs are their investment vehicle of choice. It helps explain why baskets of securities beating out the excitement of owning individua...

John Arnold, co-founder of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, was dubbed the King of Natural Gas in the nascent days of online energy trading at Enron. In 2012, after growing his firm, Centaurus Advisors, from an initial $8 million to $5 billion in less than a decade, he announced that he was walking away to pursue other interests. John joins the podcast to discuss that decision, the strategic...

  Mike Francesa, the mind and voice behind Mike’s On, a new digital sports content platform in partnership with CAA Sports and Entercom (NYSE:ETM), visited the NYSE to ring the Opening Bell and highlight the launch. Mike swung by the Library to sit down to talk about his legendary career, give us a sneak peak of what the app will offer, and answer some pressing sports questions. Inside the ICE Hou...

One of the highest honors of the New York Stock Exchange is welcoming the servicemen and women of the United States Armed Forces to 11 Wall Street. In this episode, Admiral John M. Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations, joins Josh Inside the ICE House. Hear Admiral Richardson reflect on his path from Annapolis to becoming our country’s top naval officer, and his advice for the next generation of l...

EY Partner Jamila Abston and ICE Data Services Head of Product Strategy & Innovation Rob Haddad hold a lively discussion on the tools companies use to power decision making, create value models, and stay compliant in an increasingly complex regulatory environment. Jamila and Rob guide us through the issues and solutions that are transforming how companies calculate risk and build systems to comply...

Juan Esteban Orduz, President of Colombian Coffee Federation North America, visits the ICE House to lead us through the history and future of Columbia’s marquee product. While he may be miles away from the mountains of Colombia, Juan Esteban is responsible for ensuring that Colombian coffee remains among finest in the world and is 100% sustainable by 2027 while remaining competitive on the global...

Jason McCann, co-founder and CEO of Varidesk, became the first guest of Inside the ICE House to record his episode standing on two feet, as did his host. Varidesk units can now be found in the offices of 97% of Fortune 500 companies, including at Intercontinental Exchange. Jason shares with listeners the lessons learned over a career of serial entrepreneurship and how he’s putting his experience t...

As we always say, you never know who’ll walk into the door of the NYSE on any day of the week. A special session Inside the ICE House with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now leading the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Mr. Blair and Josh take a quick trip around the world, reviewing recent events now rattling global politics. Twenty years since his first visit to the NYSE, Mr. Bl...

Kevin O’Leary, Chairman of O’Shares Investments, is best known as a brutally honest shark on ABC’s Shark Tank, but that’s only his dorsal fin. In this episode, we dive beneath the surface to hear Kevin’s thoughts on a range of topics from Trump to regulation to what his mother’s investment strategy. Midway through the episode, Connor O’Brien, Kevin’s partner and CEO of O’Shares, joined to share hi...

Our guests Inside the ICE House, Mister E and King Saladeen, stopped by the New York Stock Exchange to check out examples of their artwork which now hangs on our walls, a contrast to the centuries-old portraits and artifacts that grace other parts of our building. The young artists have made names for themselves by juxtaposing the business of art and the art of money. Both men followed their passi...