Archives for: July 13th, 2018

When the Whistle Blows

Written by ChrisUllman on July 13, 2018

Private equity exec by day, international whistling champ by night… Chris Ullman, an executive at private equity firm The Carlyle Group, walks into a conference room in downtown D.C. He’s here to introduce Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein to a select group of finance journalists—including one who moonlights as a travel writer—and the mood in the […]

Happy Birthday, Joannie

Written by ChrisUllman on June 6, 2018

Smiling is an occupational hazard for a whistler. They’re like oil and water. It’s one or the other, as a smiling face couldn’t form a pucker in a million years. One pulls the lips apart and the other draw them together. But smiling, like yawning, is contagious. So, as more and more small group settings […]