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 of their target audiences. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/insid...
Oct 24, 2022•50 min•Ep. 325
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, Chapin considers what the trip means in today’s context, and where the bilateral relationship might...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 324
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, the battles between stock picking superstars, and the transition to the new age of behavioral fi...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 323
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 climate change, but sees sustainable energy as the way to create equitable economies across the globe. ...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 322
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 humanimpact on the planet. He explains the science of carbon sequestration, the economics of pric...
Sep 26, 2022•44 min•Ep. 321
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 career, but it was her journey with Mayor Pete that reminded her why she got into the business in the f...
Sep 20, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 320
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, and cutting edge investments. In his return visit to Inside the ICE House, David talks about what’s ...
Sep 13, 2022•45 min•Ep. 319
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 sides, with the middle disappearing, particularly in the media. It’s a thesis he lays out in new book -...
Sep 09, 2022•57 min•Ep. 318
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 the ICE House to preview the NFL Season, talk about his move to ESPN, and extol the many virtues of hi...
Sep 06, 2022•49 min•Ep. 317
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 won and lost along the way. He shares how Gould isn’t the caricature that appears in Thomas Nast’s car...
Aug 30, 2022•47 min•Ep. 316
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 listed companies of the NYSE Community, Brookly also helps peers across industries determine the be...
Aug 22, 2022•47 min•Ep. 315
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 company and talked with us about the biggest trends in logistics, harnessing technology, focusing o...
Aug 15, 2022•40 min•Ep. 314
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 integral tools to help track and achieve ESG goals. Sanjit’s career began in high school, at his first jo...
Aug 08, 2022•38 min•Ep. 313
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 York Stock Exchange for an engaging conversation on improving the UK’s support for entrepreneurs and...
Aug 01, 2022•49 min•Ep. 312
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 competition, and old-fashioned customer service with a modern twist to build a community of customers. I...
Jul 25, 2022•42 min•Ep. 311
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 brand new set on the Trading Floor of the New York Stock Exchange, just feet from the iconic Bell P...
Jul 18, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 310
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 why he launched Ownership Works and brought together 60 prominent firms, organizations, and leade...
Jul 11, 2022•47 min•Ep. 309
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 advocate for “do no harm” and the primacy of human judgment in managing markets. Inside the ICE Hous...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 308
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 economic growth across the globe are putting international finance through an unprecedented pressure test...
Jun 20, 2022•46 min•Ep. 307
When you see city or state government using technology to work more efficiently, Tyler Technologies (NYSE:TYL) is often the source. The company’s CFO, Brian Miller, has been fortifying the software company’s balance sheet for years, overseeing the dozens of acquisitions that transformed Tyler into a single source of solutions for the public sector. Brian shares the vision of Tyler Technologies “Connected Communities,” the future of government tech, and updates us on the biggest merger in Tyler’s...
Jun 13, 2022•45 min•Ep. 306
Cesar Gon, co-founder and CEO of CI&T (NYSE:CINT) shares his vision for combining lean principles, disruptive technologies, and 27 years of software engineering to help the world’s largest companies transform for the economy of tomorrow. He explains how the technology platforms and digital solutions his firm creates are just one step of a three-part process he uses with clients to unlock growth, improve customer experience, and become lean machines. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.c...
Jun 06, 2022•38 min•Ep. 305
The impact of climate change is felt every day, with sustainable finance a growing countervailing force. One of the ways is putting a tangible value on nature, where ICE is creating products and markets to support those efforts. Gordon Bennett, Managing Director of ICE’s Utility Markets including ICE’s ever-growing environmental markets, returns to the podcast along with Brian Matt, Head of ESG Advisory at the New York Stock Exchange. Two of ICE’s ESG Experts unpack what it means to place a valu...
Jun 01, 2022•49 min•Ep. 304
Zeta Global (NYSE:ZETA) CEO David A. Steinberg has built a marketing platform using AI that powers a company’s marketing needs from A to Zeta. His company is focused on how to use the data created by online activity to predict what someone will need next, instead of reselling based on past behavior. He shares his mission to make Zeta the one stop shop for marketing results, his career as a serial entrepreneur, and how Web 2.5 and Web 3.0 represent an online paradigm shift unlike any before it. I...
May 23, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 303
John Peyton is CEO of Dine Brands Global, which owns the IHOP and Applebee’s chains. His company has emerged from the pandemic as a stronger, technology-driven organization still rooted in its decades of ‘Eatin’ Good in the Neighborhood’ customer equity. John shares his thoughts on leveraging his leadership experience at Realogy and Starwood to help Dine Brands scale stronger and faster through viral marketing, loyalty programs, Ghost Kitchens, digital brands, and partnering with franchise owner...
May 16, 2022•46 min•Ep. 302
Gerard O'Reilly, Dimensional Fund Advisors Co-CEO and CIO, believes the secret to navigating markets is to build strategies based on the data you can harvest rather than focus on unpredictable uncertainties. His firm has deployed that philosophy to translate academic research into investment solutions for more than 40 years. Under Gerard’s leadership, DFA began offering ETFs to allow clients to access strategies tailored to their investment needs. In just 18 months, the 23 funds have grown to ov...
May 09, 2022•47 min•Ep. 301
In the final installment of our special series of episodes featuring the stars of ICE’s global “Make the Connection” campaign, we spend time with Thomas Healy, CEO and Founder of Hyliion (NYSE: HYLN). Thomas and his team at Hyliion are relentlessly driving toward a greener energy future with bold innovations in the transportation sector. Thomas walks us through the company’s origins from college brainchild to its debut on the NYSE, and what it was like telling his story on stage. Inside the ICE ...
May 02, 2022•34 min•Ep. 300
Tanya Van Court, CEO and Founder of Goalsetter, is on a mission to help the next generation learn about finance and investing through humor and entertainment. The founder of the savings, financial education, and investment platform explains how her daughter’s ninth birthday, an investment account, and a brand-new bike sparked the creation of a tool that has helped families across the country set goals, deepen their understanding of markets, and join the conversation about finance. Inside the ICE...
Apr 28, 2022•56 min•Ep. 299
Benny Buller, Founder and CEO of Velo3D (NYSE: VLD), had a vision to build a digital supply chain allowing companies in the space travel, renewable energy, and other sectors to leverage an end-to-end manufacturing process unlike any other. He shares his journey, from solving seemingly impossible manufacturing problems, to scaling the next generation of 3D printing and materials. Benny explains why his decision to take Velo3D public via a de-SPAC will launch the company into the stratosphere. Ins...
Apr 25, 2022•51 min•Ep. 298
During the pandemic, few images were more wrenching than watching parents and grandparents wrestle with it. Cindy Baier, CEO of Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), brings us behind the scenes through her new book, Heroes Work Here: An Extraordinary Story of Courage, Resilience, and Hope from the Front Lines of COVID-19. She shares leadership insights and how her team prepared for and navigated though the toughest times. Learn more and purchase the book at brookdale.com/heroes. Inside the ICE Ho...
Apr 19, 2022•46 min•Ep. 297
Our Inside the ICE House Special Series featuring the cast and creators of ICE’s Global “Make the Connection” Campaign continues with the Brett and Jade Evans, the crew of the smash hit YouTube series “Expedition Evans.” While their intrepid Beneteau yacht “Eva” stars in ICE’s new ad, Brett and Jade’s cameos sparkle on celluloid. We set sail with these content creators and learn how they brought their ship back to life and, in the process, created a community of more than 100,000 fellow traveler...
Apr 18, 2022•56 min•Ep. 296
