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Faces, Lives, and Legacy The Work of Dr. Andrew Jacono

The word legacy gets attached to careers too easily, but in the case of Dr. Andrew Jacono, it fits precisely. Over three decades, he has refined a surgical technique that changed how facelift procedures are evaluated, trained a generation of facial plastic surgeons, published extensively in academic literature, and performed hundreds of surgeries for patients…

The Career Path That Made Dr. Andrew Jacono a Facelift Authority

There is a moment in Dr. Andrew Jacono’s biography that feels almost cinematic but is entirely true. A young Dr. Andrew Jacono chose to sit next to a girl with a cleft lip and palate on his school bus, when other children would not. He watched her excluded and mocked. Then she had surgery, and…

How Yazan Al Homsi Evaluates Early-Stage Investment Opportunities in British Columbia

British Columbia’s early-stage investment market has been evolving in ways that Vancouver-based investor Yazan Al Homsi has been tracking closely and participating in actively. His analysis of BC market dynamics provides a framework for understanding why the province has become an increasingly attractive destination for early-stage capital. The key factors, as Yazan Al Homsi has…

Karl Studer on Building Organizations That Attract Great People

The most consequential input to organizational performance is the quality of the people within it — and the most reliable way to build a high-quality workforce is to build an organization that exceptional people genuinely want to join and stay in. Idaho business leader Karl Studer has consistently prioritized the organizational conditions that attract and…

Basel Holding: A Platform Built for the Future of Finance

Basel Holding was not designed to be just another financial services company. From the outset, its founder built the organization as a platform—one capable of expanding into adjacent services, new geographies, and emerging market opportunities without requiring fundamental structural change each time. Burak Basel’s F6S profile offers context on the entrepreneurial journey that led to…

Can the Streaming Giants Replace What Local TV Lost?

The question sounds almost unfair. Of course Netflix is not going to cover your city council meeting. Of course Amazon Prime is not going to send a reporter to the school board hearing. That is not what they do. But that is precisely John Chachas’s point. Writing in Boss Magazine, the veteran media banker and…

Greg Soros Uses Research and Collaboration to Craft Honest Children’s Stories

Children’s author Greg Soros does not write from a distance. With more than 16 years in the field, Soros has developed a research-heavy process that keeps his stories grounded in the real emotional lives of children. His work is guided by a core belief: books for young readers must function as mirrors that reflect children’s…

JP Morgan’s Justin Nelson Finds Success in Families He Has Served for Decades

Some careers in finance peak in the middle and quietly wind down. Justin Nelson’s reads differently. After nearly 30 years at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, the Managing Director and head of the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team in Connecticut describes this chapter of his work as among the most rewarding, precisely because of…

From Telemedicine to the Pentagon: The Career Arc of Justin Fulcher

Tech entrepreneurs who move into government advisory roles often do so briefly and symbolically. Justin Fulcher is an exception. His transition from founding a telemedicine startup to advising the U.S. Department of Defense reflects a consistent career logic: he gravitates toward systems that are under-optimized, highly regulated, and consequential enough that getting them wrong carries…

Marcello Genovese on Why Slowing Down Can Make Product Teams Move Faster

Marcello Genovese on Why Slowing Down Can Make Product Teams Move Faster In an industry that prizes velocity above almost everything else, Marcello Genovese has spent years making the case for a counterintuitive approach: that the fastest way to ship a product is not always to move as quickly as possible from day one. Genovese,…