Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco CEO and President Teresa Bazemore took time out of attending the ICE Mortgage Technology Experience 2023 Conference to talk about her bank’s mission to keep credit flowing, give financial institutions of all sizes access to global capital markets, and help all Americans to have a roof over their head. She shared her own career journey from studying law to the C-Suite, explained the role of the FHLBank System as the second largest issuer of debt in the coun...
Apr 03, 2023•38 min•Ep. 355
Real estate is about location, location, location, but according to Laura Escobar, the President of Lennar Mortgage, the mortgage lending subsidiary of Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN), mortgage banking comes down to education, education, education. Not just for people securing a home loan, but those looking for a career supporting the mortgage process. Laura joins the podcast from ICE Experience, our annual mega-conference focused on the mortgage industry, to talk about the Mortgage Banking Bound ...
Mar 27, 2023•30 min•Ep. 354
Dr. Mark T. Esper, 29th U.S. Secretary of Defense, wrote “A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times” to chronicle his experiences at the Pentagon during the tumultuous term of Donald J. Trump. The pages capture his own life of service in and out of uniform, the old threats, the new Cold War, and the challenges of staying true to your oath. Mark shares his assessment of the country’s current adversaries and his work at West Point’s Modern War Institute and at Red...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 353
Inside the ICE House returns to Las Vegas once again for ICE Experience, our annual mega-conference focused on the mortgage industry. In this episode, listeners get front row seat to the topics and people shaping the sector with Bob Broeksmit, President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Bob lays out how the MBA is working to improve regulation, support its members, and help the next generation of mortgage professionals serve their communities. Bob talked about his career and the MBA’s...
Mar 20, 2023•45 min•Ep. 352
Mark Rourke, CEO and President of Schneider National (NYSE: SNDR), headed “Eastbound and Down” from his homebase in Green Bay to visit the New York Stock Exchange. In an era when getting goods to market is the lifeblood of the American economy, Mark shows how Schneider stays on the cutting edge of the transportation industry while upholding the heartland values that forged its reputation. He lays out Schneider’s intermodal offerings with Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP), deployment of electric and auton...
Mar 13, 2023•47 min•Ep. 351
CME Group Chairman and CEO Terry Duffy’s career, from his first day in the pits of the Merc to testifying before Congress on the potential pitfalls of FTX, has been marked by his willingness to roll up his sleeves, mix it up, and speak his mind. Terry returns to the NYSE, where he led the first IPO of a US exchange two decades ago, for a far-ranging conversation on navigating the regulatory process, the biggest issues facing the markets, and some of the even bigger issues facing the country. Ter...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 350
Liz Hoffman, Semafor’s Business & Finance Editor, chronicles the business leaders that navigated COVID-19 in Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink. The book, out now from Crown, reveals the machinations between the public and private sectors as businesses prepared, reacted, and survived the financial fallout of an economic shutdown. She joins the podcast to talk about her process to recreate the day-to-day experience of decision...
Mar 07, 2023•58 min•Ep. 349
National Magazine Award winner Lance Morrow, heralded chronicler of the American Century, keeps the ‘Wolf of Insignificance’ at bay by rising early each day to write. His words have distilled the impact of world-changing events over a career that spans the 1960s to 9/11 and beyond. In a conversation about his new memoir, “The Noise of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism.” Lance reflects on Henry Luce’s magazine empire, from its roots in missionary China to Time’s Centennial in 2023. His narrativ...
Mar 02, 2023•54 min•Ep. 348
Former Marine sniper Jake Wood learned a lot about the complex, inefficient nature of corporate giving as the founder of Team Rubicon. Now leading Groundswell, Jake is on a mission to use technology to democratize philanthropy and streamline the corporate donation process to instantly deploy funds where needed. Groundswell lets every employee control where their contributions go while also accessing tools and benefits previously only available to the wealthiest donors. He shares how his experien...
Feb 27, 2023•52 min•Ep. 347
David O’Reilly, CEO of the Howard Hughes Corporation (NYSE: HHC), lives and works in The Woodlands, a LEED-certified master planned community that’s part of his company’s portfolio of 118,000 acres of real estate. O’Reilly is a familiar face around Wall Street thanks to projects like the Tin Building and partnerships with anchor tenants like Chef Jean-Georges, which is giving the seaport a new lease on life. David stopped by the NYSE to share Howard Hughes’s decades-long vision for building on t...
Feb 23, 2023•54 min•Ep. 346
Inclusion on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list is a one of the brass rings for all tech startups. The 2022 list included among its newcomers Oura Health, which recently passed 1,000,000 sales of its signature Oura Ring wearable technology. CEO Tom Hale celebrated the inclusion Oura Health on the list, along with his fellow disruptors, at a special dinner on the New York Stock Exchange Trading Floor. He returned to the NYSE to discuss engineering the future of wearable technology, putting a sleep lab and ...
Feb 21, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 345
For this week’s episode we went on a road show to Outdoor Retailer's Snow Show '23, the big annual gear-fest in Salt Lake City put on by Emerald Holding Inc. (NYSE: EEX). Joining us on the pod were Emerald CEO Herve Sedky, CFO David Doft and Salt Lake City’s Mayor Erin Mendenhall. The three have formed a unique alliance to help drive the city’s growth and fuel the outdoor economy in the face of climate change. “O.R.”, as its regulars call it -- moving to three events each year to satisfy the imm...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 344
Mike Hayes, COO of VMware (NYSE: VMW) and former commanding officer of SEAL Team TWO, wrote “Never Enough: A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning” to share the lessons he learned during his service to help readers do work of value, live purposely, and stretch themselves. He joined the podcast to talk about his book, his career, and how a “Never Enough” mindset can be applied in business, politics, and life. Proceeds of his book go to support the 1162 Foundatio...
Feb 06, 2023•55 min•Ep. 343
Syndio works with the NYSE and its listed companies to place true value on the “S” of ESG with technology and services that help companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity. In this episode, Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio explains how her company practices what it preaches by publicly releasing pay equity and medium pay gap reports every six months. She shares how transparency and data are key to pay equity, what employers should be considering around representation amid economic uncer...
Jan 30, 2023•51 min•Ep. 342
Jay Clayton has built a career serving big corporations and small investors alike. Since passing the gavel to Gary Gensler, Jay has returned to the private sector, taking board seats with American Express (NYSE: AXP) and Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO). But Jay hasn’t stayed silent on public policy, frequently picking up his pen in a series of op/eds to weigh in on regulation of crypto and digital assets. Jay stopped by the NYSE to dive deep on the intersection of law, policy, finance, and ...
Jan 23, 2023•56 min•Ep. 341
If, as the Bard said, “what's past is prologue,” then there is no better person to talk about the future of energy markets than Mark Lewis, Head of Climate Research for Andurand Capital Management. Mark pioneered the green finance discipline and now advises clients on investment opportunities created by energy transition. As the World Economic Forum gets underway in Davos, Mark shares his outlook for energy markets, unpacks new developments in carbon pricing, and explains how William Shakespeare...
Jan 17, 2023•59 min•Ep. 340
Bobby Tudor, CEO of Artemis Energy Partners CEO and Founder of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., launched the Houston Energy Transition Initiative to pivot Houston’s economy, with its 500 oil and gas companies, into the energy transition capital of the world. While Bobby says fossil fuels will remain central to the region for many years, there’s no time like the present begin the herculean pivot to a zero carbon future. The episode drills into Bobby’s vision, his career, and how Houston and its ...
Jan 09, 2023•53 min•Ep. 339
Mark Wassersug, an OG member of the ICE leadership team and its longtime COO, is readying to swipe his lift pass instead of his company ID pass after two decades transforming ICE from a startup into one of the world’s foremost operators of financial infrastructure. As he readied to swap wingtips for ski boots, “Wass” joined us in the Library for a swan song on the passions and curiosities that drive an operator, the existential moments of the company’s early days, the challenges of integrating i...
Jan 03, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 338
Julia Boorstin, CNBC’s Senior Media & Tech Reporter, returns to her writing roots with “WHEN WOMEN LEAD: What they achieve, Why they succeed, and How we can learn from them.” The creator of CNBC’s Disruptor 50 and its “Closing the Gap” initiative, Julia recounts the triumphs and setbacks of a cohort of female founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders. This episode interweaves Julia’s own career experiences with the chronicle of the hurdles that female CEOs overcome on their journey to success. In...
Dec 19, 2022•56 min•Ep. 337
In her illuminating new book, HOMECOMING: The Path to Prosperity in a Post Global World, the Financial Times Global Business Columnist Rana Foroohar shares her views on why the great globalization experiment has failed and what it really means for the US and the world economy. She joins the podcast to talk about her book, the genesis of her thesis, and chronicles her career as an international journalist for some of the world's leading financial publications. Inside the ICE House: https://www.th...
Dec 15, 2022•53 min•Ep. 336
Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE:KMB) Chief R&D Officer Robert Long and Chief Growth Officer Alison Lewis checked into the ICE House for a consumer-products confab diving deep into the company behind beloved brands that fill our homes and offices. For 150 years, Kimberly-Clark has used innovation to disrupt sectors that it first introduced to consumers decades ago. Alison and Robert, along with Kimberly-Clark CEO Michael Hsu, are laser-focused on improving the sustainability, equality, and consume...
Dec 12, 2022•56 min•Ep. 335
Carlos De Toro, 78th Secretary of the U.S. Navy, expects the Midshipmen of his alma mater to “Beat Army” in the 123rd rendition of the classic rivalry, but he knows the triple option tactics of years past won’t be enough. Winning on today’s gridiron needs new skills and strategies. The same is true for his force of 900,000 sailors, marines, reservists and civilians and their $210 Billion annual budget. Sec. Del Toro returned to New York, where he once christened his ship as an officer, to recall...
Dec 05, 2022•56 min•Ep. 334
Yale University President Peter Salovey leads the iconic 321-year-old institution situated in a city, New Haven, founded 50 years earlier, with which it remains increasingly interconnected. President Salovey talked to us about his academic career, new developments and initiatives at the school, the rivalry with that other school in Cambridge, Mass., and why Yale is committing a $140 million pledge to maintain New Haven’s vibrancy well in the 21st Century. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice...
Dec 01, 2022•59 min•Ep. 333
For a century and half, ADT (NYSE:ADT) has continued to evolve to best fulfill its mission to, “help our customers protect and connect to what matters most—their families, homes, and businesses.” Jim DeVries, President and CEO of ADT, returns to the New York Stock Exchange for the first time since the company’s 2018 IPO to alert listeners on the longevity and future of those blue octagon signs and how ADT is combining technology with its infrastructure to meet customer needs. He explains why the...
Nov 28, 2022•40 min•Ep. 332
John Chen, the CEO of BlackBerry (NYSE: BB), has radically transformed the company from a struggling device manufacturer to a preeminent cybersecurity software and services company. Blackberry is now helping companies, organizations, and governments secure their digital and encrypted assets in an increasingly connected and vulnerable world. Before ringing the bell for the 14th time, he sat down to discuss his career, the future for Blackberry, and why cybersecurity and IOT are destined to conver...
Nov 21, 2022•52 min•Ep. 331
In a special live episode recorded at ICE’s Fixed Income Forum held at the New York Stock Exchange, Wally Adeyemo, United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, renewed the 230-year connection between Washington and Wall Street. Wally discussed Treasury’s plan for growing the economy while, at the same time, projecting U.S. economic power. He offered a readout on his recent meetings with global finance ministers and previewed the G-20 meetings in Bali, Indonesia. Inside the ICE House: https://...
Nov 17, 2022•36 min•Ep. 330
Dakin Campbell, the Chief Finance Correspondent for Insider, goes behind the scenes to chronicle how modern tech companies are tapping the capital markets in his book, “Going Public: How Silicon Valley Rebels Loosened Wall Street’s Grip on the IPO and Sparked A Revolution.” The debut of Spotify’s shares in 2018 was the culmination of then CFO Barry McCarthy’s vision for a more efficient public offering through the Direct Listing at the NYSE. But Dakin traces the story goes back to the nascent da...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 329
John Tuttle, Vice Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange and President of the newly-formed NYSE Institute, returns to the podcast to discuss how the NYSE’s $30 trillion community of listed companies can influence policy in Washington after the midterm elections and the enduring role of U.S. capital markets in foreign affairs. The NYSE Institute was launched earlier this year to formalize what the Exchange has always done across its 230-year history, fostering dialogue among the most important v...
Nov 07, 2022•51 min•Ep. 328
Chris Wright, Chair and CEO of Liberty Energy (NYSE:LBRT), thinks we are under valuing threats to global energy supply and its potential impact on our quality of life. Chris began his career developing the science behind fracking, allowing the United States to tap the resources to become a net positive energy producer. He is now mapping out how climate first policies by finance and politics will affect the world. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-...
Nov 03, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 327
Successful companies, both private and public, depend on their boards of directors to help leadership teams navigate the perils of running modern companies. Few people are more qualified than Betsy Atkins, a three-time CEO whose expertise in corporate governance has led nearly 20 companies to add her to their board. Betsy says companies need to expand the aperture for potential board members to respond to a new of governance challenges. Betsy has distilled her life lessons into a book, “Be Board...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 326
