Inside the ICE House
4 Seasons
Conversations with leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. 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, feature conversations with leaders, entrepreneurs and visionaries who walk through our doors with a dream of building businesses and changing the world.
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Centrus CEO Amir Vexler on Nuclear’s Comeback and the Fuel Powering Its Future
Episode 1
Nuclear is back at the center of the energy conversation, and Centrus is racing to rebuild America’s domestic fuel supply chain. CEO Amir Vexler goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how the war in Ukraine, surging power demand, and the push for energy independence have reshaped the industry. He b...
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Circle CCO Kash Razzaghi on Arc, AI Agents and the Race to Make Money Instant
Episode 2
Circle has launched Arc Mainnet, which CEO Jeremy Allaire calls the company’s most significant launch since USDC itself. CCO Kash Razzaghi goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how the institutional-grade blockchain, backed by founding validators including ICE, Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, and DTC...
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Public/Private: HarbourVest's Scott Voss on Idiosynchronicity and AI's Wild Ride
Episode 3
Private markets are entering a moment where the macro is tightly linked but investment outcomes are increasingly scattered. HarbourVest's Scott Voss goes Inside the ICE House to unpack "idiosynchronicity," the theme driving the firm's 2026 mid-year outlook. He explores how AI has become an asset ...
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VICI Properties CEO Ed Pitoniak on Casinos, Golf, and the Business of Experience
Episode 4
VICI Properties has spent nearly a decade proving that casinos, golf courses, and entertainment venues can anchor one of the most resilient corners of commercial real estate. CEO Ed Pitoniak goes Inside the ICE House to discuss the triple net lease model behind VICI's portfolio and the five inves...
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York Space CEO Dirk Wallinger on Scaling Satellites and the Next Space Race
Episode 5
York Space Systems has spent 15 years industrializing satellite manufacturing, moving the industry from billion-dollar, decade-long builds to standardized platforms fielded in just seven months. Founder, President and CEO Dirk Wallinger goes inside the ICE House to discuss how proliferated conste...
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25 Years Since 9/11: AP Photographer Richard Drew on The Falling Man Photograph
Episode 6
Richard Drew, an AP photographer for 56 years, joins Inside the ICE House 25 years after capturing The Falling Man, one of 9/11's most haunting images. He recounts abandoning a Fashion Week shoot to rush downtown, and how his camera's continuous shutter caught the now-iconic sequence without him ...
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Hershey's Stacy Taffet on Keeping Nostalgia Sweet While Modernizing a Legacy
Episode 7
Hershey is entering a new era of growth by reimagining a 130-year-old legacy for the next generation of snackers. Chief Growth and Marketing Officer Stacy Taffet goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how the company balances bold innovation with the tried-and-true brands consumers grew up loving. ...
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IBM CSO Christina Shim on Turning Sustainability Into a Business Growth Engine
Episode 8
Christina Shim, IBM's Chief Sustainability Officer, goes Inside the ICE House to discuss how energy, materials, and market access have become defining business challenges shaped by AI demand, geopolitics, and supply chain concentration. She explains how IBM embeds sustainability directly into exi...
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Blue Yonder CSO Saskia van Gendt on Sustainability as a Supply Chain Superpower
Episode 9
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 red...
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GXO CEO Patrick Kelleher on AI, Robots, and the Future of the Modern Warehouse
Episode 10
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 GX...
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Stifel CEO Ron Kruszewski on AI as an Accelerator and Why Humans Still Win
Episode 11
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 ...
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September Markets in Focus: Bitcoin's Breakout, Small Caps + the Fed's Rate Move
Episode 12
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 n...
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Brixmor CEO Brian Finnegan on the Symbiotic Bond Between Retail and Community
Episode 13
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 ...
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Schneider CEO Jim Filter on Leading Legacy and Disruption in Lockstep
Episode 14
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...
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Dimensional Founder David Booth on Staying Calm and Tuning Out the Noise
Episode 15
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 peo...
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Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit on Designing Medicines That Work Like Life Itself
Episode 16
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 ...
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Formation Bio CEO Ben Liu on Fixing the Bottleneck Slowing Down Medicine
Episode 17
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, i...
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Third Coast Bank CEO Bart Caraway on Putting People and Purpose Into Banking
Episode 18
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...
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NYSE Texas: FOA's Michael Fant on Reversing the Reverse Mortgage Mindset
Episode 19
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 sh...
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Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly on Engineering Life's Next Operating System
Episode 20
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, agricultu...
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Guardian Metal Resources CEO Oliver Friesen on America's Tungsten Crisis
Episode 21
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 raci...
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Takeda CSO Chris Arendt on Transforming Drug Discovery & the R&D Pipeline
Episode 22
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 narco...
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James Rutledge Shares Six Decades of History Inside the NYSE
Episode 23
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 ti...
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Rubrik's Cal Al-Dhubaib on Securing AI Agents Without Slowing Innovation
Episode 24
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 reco...