The podcasting industry has no shortage of production companies. What it lacks, according to Greg Soros, is enough companies willing to treat audio as an art form rather than a commodity. Soros, the Portland-born podcaster and producer who founded Podcraft Media Lab in Austin, has built a career around that distinction and the market has responded.Soros launched Podcraft Media Lab in 2020 after departing a senior producer position at a prominent...
In addition to his work as Executive Chairman of Energy Transfer, Kelcy Warren serves on the University of Texas System Board of Regents, an appointment made by Governor Greg Abbott. The role places Warren at the governance level of one of the largest university systems in the country and reflects the kind of civic engagement he has maintained alongside his energy career.Ties to UT-Arlington Run DeepWarren graduated from the University of...
Geographic diversification is a risk management tool for many investors, but for London-based entrepreneur Burak Basel, it has been something more: an active driver of growth and competitive advantage. By establishing meaningful operations across multiple regions, Basel Holding has gained access to opportunities, talent, and market insights that purely domestic players simply cannot match.The group's presence in Malta has been particularly...
Five years after leaving a prominent media company, Greg Soros has built one of the more quietly influential podcast production operations in the country. Podcraft Media Lab, headquartered in Austin, Texas, has carved out a niche that few competitors occupy: high-touch, premium audio production for clients who want more than a microphone and a publishing schedule.The company serves a client list that spans Fortune 500 firms and emerging...
Kelcy Warren's influence on the American energy industry is substantial and well-documented. Less visible, but equally meaningful to him, is the mark he has left on the city of Dallas particularly through the urban greenspace that bears his family's name.A Park Named After His SonKlyde Warren Park, a six-acre deck park connecting Uptown and downtown Dallas, opened in 2012. The project required bridging over a freeway a civil engineering...
The television series that aired under the title Facing Trauma gave millions of viewers a window into a corner of medicine rarely seen on camera: the reconstruction of faces broken by violence or deformity, and the human stories of recovery that followed. At the center of that series was Dr. Andrew Jacono, a dual board-certified facial plastic surgeon whose charitable work preceded the cameras by years and has continued long after filming...
There is a version of the podcasting success story that involves hundreds of episodes, aggressive distribution schedules, and a relentless upload cadence. Greg Soros chose not to tell that story. When he founded Podcraft Media Lab in Austin in 2020, Soros built the company around a single conviction: exceptional audio production is worth more than an endless content feed.That conviction has turned Podcraft into one of the audio industry's most...
Children come to books for different reasons, and not always the ones adults assume. Some are searching for proof that their own experiences are real and worth naming. Others are looking past themselves entirely, hungry for glimpses of lives unlike their own. Greg Soros, author of children's fiction, has built a creative framework around serving both at once.Greg Soros champions a broader vision for children’s literature, arguing that books...
Few surgical techniques achieve both peer acceptance and mainstream visibility. The extended deep-plane facelift developed by Dr. Andrew Jacono has done both. Its results have attracted celebrities, fashion figures, and fellow physicians. Its documentation in peer-reviewed literature has cemented it as a genuine contribution to the field. And the surgeon behind it has received recognition from publications ranging from Newsweek to Harper's...
The concept of work-life balance has a complicated relationship with the realities of building and running industrial businesses. Projects run on tight schedules, safety incidents require immediate response, and the competitive pressures of infrastructure contracting don't pause for personal time. Karl Studer has developed an approach to this challenge that is more honest than most — acknowledging the demands of the work while building...