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Inside the ICE House

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Inside the ICE House, a podcast produced by Intercontinental Exchange, takes listeners behind the historic façade of the New York Stock Exchange and inside the global financial marketplace. The episodes, recorded in the Library of the NYSE, features conversations with leaders, entrepreneurs and visionaries who walk through our doors with a dream of building businesses and changing the world. Their stories have made the NYSE, now part of ICE’s ecosystem of markets, clearing houses, data provider, and listings services, an indispensable institution for over 225 years.

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Monday · 32 min
Episode 556: Blue Yonder CSO Saskia van Gendt on Sustainability as a Supply Chain Superpower
Sustainability has evolved from a standalone marketing initiative into a metric woven throughout the modern supply chain, and few companies sit closer to that shift than Blue Yonder. Chief Sustainability Officer Saskia van Gendt goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how carbon emissions, waste reduction, and ESG risk are becoming embedded into everyday supply chain decisions. She explores how AI is supercharging demand planning, transportation, and warehousing to cut waste and emissions across the end-to-end supply chain.
September 16 · 31 min
Episode 555: GXO CEO Patrick Kelleher on AI, Robots, and the Future of the Modern Warehouse
GXO is marking its five-year anniversary as a public company by shifting from an M&A-driven playbook to a focus on organic growth. CEO Patrick Kelleher goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how AI and humanoid robotics are transforming warehouse operations and worker productivity. He shares how GXO is winning new business in aerospace, defense, and data centers by leaning into specialized industry expertise. Kelleher also makes the case for specialization over end-to-end diversification as supply chains grow more complex.
September 14 · 40 min
Episode 554: Stifel CEO Ron Kruszewski on AI as an Accelerator and Why Humans Still Win
Stifel CEO Ron Kruszewski joins Inside the ICE House to mark 30 years leading the 136-year-old firm and reflect on navigating constant change. He explains why he sees AI as a powerful accelerator rather than a replacement for human judgment, and why he's betting Stifel's business on the enduring value of human relationships. Kruszewski warns against chasing trends like tokenization without heeding the lessons of financial history, favoring a strategy of compounding capabilities over decades. He closes with his outlook on where AI and financial services are headed together.
September 11 · 11 min
September Markets in Focus: Bitcoin's Breakout, Small Caps + the Fed's Rate Move
Phil Rosen joins Inside The ICE House to unpack Bitcoin's 30% surge, tying most of the gain to the Treasury's buyback announcement and noting the pullback after Jackson Hole. He stays structurally bullish on Bitcoin, pointing to currency debasement as the real long-term driver regardless of Fed noise. On small caps, he flags the Russell 2000's 25% rally as less impressive against a flat five-year stretch and favors rotating into large caps here. Rosen doubts Warsh will hike in September despite market odds suggesting otherwise, arguing the AI CapEx cycle matters more than a quarter-point move. He closes by noting a surprise hike would sting near-term, but strong earnings give the market room to absorb it.
September 9 · 38 min
ETF Central: Focus Partners Wealth Senior Wealth Advisor Adam Yofan
Adam Yofan, a wealth advisor and consultant with Focus Partners, joins Bilal Little on ETF Central to discuss how wealthy families approach investment and estate planning. Yofan shares his path from CPA to Smith Barney broker to building a planning-focused practice now part of Focus Partners, where he coaches roughly 800 advisors full-time. He argues that an advisor's real value lies not in the plan itself, which AI can now approximate, but in the trust and emotional intelligence needed to ask clients hard questions about family, legacy, and desired outcomes. He also touches on shifts toward tax-aware SMAs and ETFs, AI's growing role in advisor workflows, and offers candid thoughts on estate planning basics and his own legacy.
September 8 · 42 min
Episode 553: Brixmor CEO Brian Finnegan on the Symbiotic Bond Between Retail and Community
Brixmor is redefining what open-air retail can be, with CEO Brian Finnegan leading a portfolio of 350 shopping centers that drew 900 million visits over the past year. Finnegan goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how Brixmor curates a merchandising mix of grocers, off-price retailers, and local favorites that turn shopping centers into true community hubs. He explores why physical retail continues to thrive despite historic headwinds, from record-low new supply to retailers making stores the center of their omnichannel strategy.
September 3 · 36 min
Episode 552: Schneider CEO Jim Filter on Leading Legacy and Disruption in Lockstep
Jim Filter is only the fifth CEO in Schneider National's 90-plus-year history, stepping into the role as regulatory changes reshape trucking and logistics capacity. He goes Inside the ICE House to unpack how Schneider is using AI, autonomous vehicles, and a rebalanced fleet strategy to stay ahead of the shift. Filter discusses growth opportunities in Mexico, a disciplined approach to M&A, and why telling a cyclical dip from a real trend is core to long-term decision-making.
September 1 · 27 min
Episode 551: Dimensional Founder David Booth on Staying Calm and Tuning Out the Noise
With markets noisier and more uncertain than ever, Dimensional Fund Advisors founder David Booth goes Inside the ICE House to make the case that staying calm is not just good advice — it's backed by a century of data. He discusses his new book, Stay Calm, and why the same principles that help people navigate life's uncertainties are the ones that lead to long-term investing success. Booth challenges the allure of market timing and prediction, arguing instead for planning, patience, and trusting in human ingenuity as the engine behind decades of 10% annual stock returns. He also reflects on Dimensional's milestone crossing of $1 trillion in assets under management and why personalization may be the next major wave in investing.
August 31 · 21 min
AI x Bio Series: Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit on Designing Medicines That Work Like Life Itself
Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit goes Inside the ICE House to challenge the foundational assumptions of modern drug discovery, arguing that AI will enable medicines that work with the body's natural complexity rather than against it. He discusses Inceptive's partnership with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and why their RNA interference platform and rich data history make them a uniquely powerful AI collaborator. Uszkoreit explains why partnerships are essential for a small company with broadly applicable technology, and why the long-term prize is therapies that are gentler, earlier, and truly personalized.
August 27 · 19 min
AI x Bio Series: Formation Bio CEO Ben Liu on Fixing the Bottleneck Slowing Down Medicine
Formation Bio is rewriting the rules of drug development at a time when AI is accelerating drug discovery far faster than the industry can bring new therapies to patients. CEO Ben Liu goes Inside the ICE House to explain why the real bottleneck in pharma isn't finding promising drug candidates, it's developing them efficiently and at scale. He unpacks Formation Bio's AI-native model, which acquires already-discovered drugs and deploys proprietary tools to optimize trial design, predict clinical outcomes, and identify overlooked disease indications.
August 26 · 22 min
ETF Central: Horizon Head of Product Clark Allen
Clark Allen, Head of Product at Horizon Investments, joins Bilal Little on ETF Central to discuss the firm's rapid growth to more than $4 billion in ETF assets and its advisor-first approach to product development. Allen shares his journey from CPA and quantitative researcher to leading Horizon's expanding ETF platform, highlighting the firm's use of systematic, options-based strategies to help advisors manage risk and client expectations. He also discusses recent acquisitions in equity and fixed income, the evolving role of financial advisors, and his outlook for continued innovation across the ETF industry.
August 24 · 33 min
Episode 550: Third Coast Bank CEO Bart Caraway on Putting People and Purpose Into Banking
Third Coast Bancshares Founder and CEO Bart Caraway joins Inside the ICE House to discuss building a Texas-based community bank from a vision into a publicly traded company now listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He reflects on launching the bank in 2008 at the onset of the Great Recession and how a commitment to servant leadership and community impact has driven the bank's growth. He also highlights the bank's dual listing on NYSE Texas, sharing his enthusiasm for the listing and the exchange as a symbol of the state's expanding economic influence and entrepreneurial spirit.
August 19 · 29 min
NYSE Texas: Finance of America's Michael Fant on Reversing the Reverse Mortgage Mindset
Finance of America SVP of Finance Michael Fant joins Inside the ICE House to discuss how the company has grown into the largest originator and servicer of reverse mortgages in the United States, helping seniors tap into their home equity to fund retirement. He shares how Finance of America has shifted the perception of reverse mortgages from a product of last resort to a sophisticated financial planning tool, expanding its offerings to include jumbo and second-lien products. He explains the company's deep commitment to consumer education and how technology is being carefully integrated to improve efficiency while preserving the human touch points seniors rely on.
August 17 · 24 min
AI x Bio Series: Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly on Engineering Life's Next Operating System
Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly joins Inside the ICE House to explain how Ginkgo is building the infrastructure to make biology programmable at scale — automating the lab work that has long bottlenecked scientific progress and offering experimentation as a cloud-based service to pharma, agriculture, and academic researchers. Kelly also details how a landmark collaboration with OpenAI demonstrated that AI can now autonomously design and iterate on biological experiments, pointing toward a future where the $120 billion spent annually on manual research gets dramatically more productive.
August 13 · 31 min
Episode 549: Guardian Metal Resources CEO Oliver Friesen on America's Tungsten Crisis
The United States has not operated a single tungsten mine in over a decade, leaving the nation dangerously dependent on foreign countries for a metal critical to defense, semiconductors, and manufacturing. CEO Oliver Friesen goes Inside the ICE House to detail how Guardian Metal Resources is racing to bring two Nevada tungsten mines into commercial production before the end of 2028. He discusses China's sweeping export ban, the national security stakes of domestic supply chains, and how partnerships with the Department of War and Montana Mining Association are accelerating progress.
August 12 · 37 min
ETF Central: MarketGrader Founder & CEO Carlos Diez
Carlos Diez, CEO and founder of MarketGrader, joins Bilal Little on ETF Central to discuss his firm's fundamentals-driven approach to index investing and how it bridges the gap between active and passive strategies. Diez shares his journey from Colombia to founding MarketGrader in 1999, built around a 24-factor rating system that historically designates only 15% of covered companies as a buy. He highlights the Barron's 400 ETF as a core equity holding designed to reduce concentration risk through equal weighting across high-quality U.S. companies, and closes by framing AI as a broad economic enabler rather than a narrow market trade.
August 10 · 18 min
AI x Bio Series: Takeda CSO Chris Arendt on Transforming Drug Discovery & the R&D Pipeline
Takeda is entering one of the most pivotal moments in its 245-year history, with a late-stage pipeline poised to transform patient outcomes across three therapeutic areas. Chief Scientific Officer Chris Arendt goes Inside the ICE House to discuss the science behind drug candidates targeting narcolepsy, polycythemia vera, and psoriasis. He explores how AI and computational technologies are reshaping drug discovery and why building the right data foundation is critical to supercharging Takeda's R&D engine.
August 5 · 41 min
James Rutledge Shares Six Decades of History Inside the NYSE
Longtime New York Stock Exchange member and former Director James Rutledge goes Inside the ICE House to reflect on a remarkable career that began with a help wanted sign on Wall Street in 1968. He shares firsthand stories from the paperwork crisis, the transition from pneumatic tubes and paper tickets to electronic trading, and the NYSE’s evolution through decades of technological change.
August 3 · 28 min
Episode 548: Rubrik's Cal Al-Dhubaib on Securing AI Agents Without Slowing Innovation
Rubrik Principal Technologist Cal Al-Dhubaib joins Inside the ICE House to discuss how enterprises can securely adopt AI as autonomous agents gain greater access to data, systems, and code. He explains how Rubrik Agent Cloud helps organizations monitor AI activity, govern agent behavior, and recover from unintended actions. Al-Dhubaib also shares how Rubrik is using AI internally while balancing innovation with security, oversight, and trust.
July 31 · 10 min
July 2027 Rewind: "Best of" Inside the ICE House
In July, Inside the ICE House aired six new episodes. Episode 544: New York Giants' Kayvon Thibodeaux on Money, Mentorship, and the 2026 Season Episode 545: Bayern Munich CMO Rouven Kasper on Soccer Fandom, U.S. Growth, and Global Reach NYSE Texas: Buda Juice CEO Horatio Lonsdale-Hands on Ultra Fresh Growth Episode 546: Jeeves CEO Dileep Thazhmon on Scaling a Borderless Banking Platform Episode 547: Offerpad CFO Peter Knag on Transforming How Americans Sell Homes NYSE Texas: Globe Life Co-CEOs on Building a Resilient Insurance Giant

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