Inside the ICE House

From climate change to cyber threats, the energy grid faces many threats — keeping the electrons flowing requires exhaustive planning and excellent execution. For decades, the energy industry has turned to Tom Fanning, Chairman & CEO of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), for his leadership to ensure we get our power from a reliable, safe, and secure grid. Tom discusses how his career path gave him the tools to protect key infrastructure, while transitioning Southern Company to a greener future.     Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Innovators may dream what is possible, but to turn those dreams into reality requires the often-overlooked complex networks of hardware that surround us. Terrence Curtin, CEO of TE Connectivity (NYSE:TEL), has devoted his career to making the connections that drive the world. He explains how TE Connectivity’s engineers partner with thousands of companies to bring disruptive technology to scale by producing the connectors and sensors that innovation needs to become part of our everyday lives.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

An episode unlike any we’ve done: Eduardo “Duca” Cassol and Roberta Becker Montibeller are Brazilian engineers and problem solvers who’ve chronicled the last four years of their lives for a quarter million regular followers on YouTube. Their addictive show is called Odd Life Crafting, centering on their obsessive restoration and refit of a steel sailboat called, oddly, Odd. We make a connection with their simple, passionate, and adventurous lives as a brief journey to the idea that anything is possible.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Nicholas Fink, CEO of Fortune Brands Home & Security (NYSE: FBHS), is in the business of making our homes beautiful, operational, and safe. Nick takes us on his journey from the spirits industry to where he calls home now: our homes. He discusses the major trends shaping the residential market, including plumbing, cabinetry, outdoors & security. We dwell on how Fortune Brands’ portfolio the leading residential brands help homeowners exercise their passions, ideas, and vision for their personal space.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Companies must be able to pivot and adapt to whatever their clients and the broader business environment throw their way. Since a CEO can’t call timeout in the middle of a quarter, the longtime boss of Lincoln Financial (NYSE: LNC), Dennis Glass, knows that success is born in planning, well before execution. Dennis explains how careful preparation has been his secret weapon in building an effective management team and how he’s built and led a Fortune 500 company through crisis and growth.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Katie Koch, Goldman Sachs’ Co-Head of Fundamental Equity, has launched two ETFs with her team to help identify the winners in the climate transition and the newest tech companies that are reshaping our world: the Goldman Sachs Future Planet Equity ETF (NYSE ARCA: GSFP) and the Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity ETF (NYSE ARCA: GTEK). Katie shares how her background prepared her for a life in finance and how diversity — in all its forms — can lead to differentiated returns for investors.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Dan Amos, Chairman and CEO of Aflac Inc. (NYSE: AFL), deploys deceptively simple principles of risk management: Don’t risk a lot for a little. Never risk more than you can afford to lose. Consider the odds. Those are the north stars that guide the company Dan’s father and uncles founded. He tells the story of growing his family firm into a Fortune 200 company by trusting people and encouraging diversity, constantly evolving to meet client needs, and putting his faith in a brand campaign built around a duck.    Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

The NYSE and Intrinsic Exchange Group have partnered on a whole new way to unlock the value stored in the natural world by using an equity exchange to allow trading and investment in an innovative asset called Natural Asset Companies, or NACs. This approach brings promise to drive real progress on ESG issues. Douglas Eger, Chairman and CEO of Intrinsic Exchange Group, shares his vision for tapping the value of the environment and how NACs can help create a more equitable and sustainable economy.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

While some stay obsessed with WallStreetBets and sending GameStop to the moon, Rosenblatt Securities’ Managing Director Justin Schack stays focused on something more fundamental: making sure market structure can handle the pressure, and that investors receive fair, orderly, and efficient price information for every trade. He returns to the podcast to discuss the massive influx of retail trading, how off-exchange trading has grown, and what Washington is looking to do about it.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

As the first leader of the U.S. Cyber Command, four-star Army Gen. Keith Alexander recognized that safeguarding America’s cybersecurity compelled collaboration between the government, private sector, and our allies. After a career that also saw him lead the National Security Agency, Gen. Alexander is leading a new team at IronNet (NYSE: IRNT) that’s bringing the power of collective defense to the private sector. On the show, he talks about his career and his new mission facing new threats.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house