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Stacey Doré has been named Vistra's Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer [Photo: Vistra]

Irving-Based Vistra Names First Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer

by | Aug 23, 2022

Stacey Doré will join Vistra as its first chief strategy and sustainability officer and executive vice president of public affairs, the company announced.

As of August 23, she’ll be responsible for corporate strategy, sustainability, regulatory and government affairs, communications, and community engagement at the Irving-based Fortune 500 power company.

Doré, who climbed the ladder as a corporate counsel, will report to Jim Burke, Vistra’s president and chief executive officer in the new role....

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Plano’s CareAR and Lenovo Join Forces On Wearable Smart Glasses for Enterprise Extended Reality Solutions
by | Aug 23, 2022
Plano-based CareAR, a Xerox-owned service experience management company, is bringing its augmented reality platform to Lenovo’s 5G-enabled wearable smart glasses. That allows field technicians to overlay what they're seeing in real time with interactive tools and instructional content. “We're fundamentally augmenting the intelligence of workers across a variety of industries," says Sam Waicberg, CareAR’s co-founder and president.
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Innovative Spaces: PGA of America Unveils Its New $33.5M Headquarters in Frisco
by | Aug 23, 2022
If you think it's just an office building, better tee up another ball. The new PGA of America headquarters aims to be a "first-of-its-kind" golf laboratory and a destination for the future of golf, with indoor training facilities, driving range simulators, state-of-the-art education facilities, a video studio, and more. Take a look inside.

The new HQ is just part of the new 660-acre PGA Frisco campus. Two championship golf courses, a new 510-room Omni Resort, a performance center, and other attractions are expected to drive $2.5 billion in economic impact over the next 20 years.
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The Last Word: Paul Puopolo on DFW Airport’s First Innovation Week
by | Aug 22, 2022
Beginning today, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is hosting its first-ever Innovation Week—a four day-event promoting "a culture of innovation, discovery, and engagement." The week will include speaker panels, education sessions, workshops, and tech demos to celebrate what Puopolo calls the "the everyday innovator."
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Brannon Morisoli will focus on investments in the life sciences industry and build relationships with leading venture capital firms to support teams in life sciences. [Illustration: courtesy photo, istockphoto]

Runway Growth Capital Adds to Life Science Team With New Dallas Managing Director

by | Aug 20, 2022
Brannon Morisoli will join the team at a time when life science is booming in North Texas. Most recently, Dallas-Fort Worth ranked for the first time in the "Top 20 U.S. metros for life science" 2022 report by CommercialEdge. 
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The Last Word: LibDib’s Cheryl Durzy on Graduating a Craft Tequila Brand to RNDC Distribution
by | Aug 19, 2022
Last September, we wrote about how LibDib was partnering with Grand Prairie-based Republic National Distributing Company to launch LibDib@RNDC Texas. Its goal was to be the “Airbnb of alcohol distribution” in the Lone Star State—giving makers of boutique craft beverages access to RNDC’s Texas-wide distribution system. 
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DI People: Toyota, ERCOT, Bank of Texas, Comerica Bank, LERMA/, and More Make Leadership Moves
by | Aug 19, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from UTD's Center for Brainhealth, DART, Enseo, LiquidAgents/StaffDNA, Alpine Advanced Materials, Runway Growth Capital, Optic Gaming, Dallas Thrives, Downtown Dallas Inc., TechGenies, Kainos Capital, Texas Motor Speedway, and more.
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‘Run, Don’t Walk’ to Reserve Your Spot for This Texas Women’s Foundation Annual Luncheon 
by | Aug 19, 2022
The "Transforming Communities"-themed event on October 6 features America’s most decorated track and field athlete, Allyson Felix. While the athletic legend may be retiring from competitive athletics, she's amplifying her voice for women’s rights.

She'll also talk about launching her new brand for women, led by women.
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Terence Liu, CEO of TXOne Networks

Cybersecurity Firm TXOne Networks Raises $70M to Expand Global Reach

by | Aug 18, 2022
TXOne focuses on securing operational technology (OT) networks and devices for industries from pharmaceuticals to aerospace to smart manufacturing. The Taiwan-based company—which recently moved its U.S. HQ to Irving— says the new funding will help it serve growing demand in the industrial control systems market.

“With cyberattacks on the rise, the zero-trust era has arrived for OT networks,” says CEO Terence Liu.
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Dallas-Based Dave’s Gourmet Is Taking TikTok-Viral ‘Pink Sauce’ to Store Shelves Everywhere
by | Aug 18, 2022
Dave's Gourmet is known for its super hot Dave's Insanity Sauce, created by Founder Dave Hirshkop (AKA the “Brigadier of Burn”). Now, after getting a strategic investment from Gourmerica Inc. in 2021—along with a new president, David Neuman—Dave's is in the pink. Literally.

The company waded knee-deep into one of the biggest TikTok memes of the summer—'Pink Sauce,' a much-parodied creation from Miami influencer Chef Pii—by partnering to give it an official international CPG launch.
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The Last Word: Lisa Stroud on Saturday’s Dallas Celeb Fashion Awards
by | Aug 17, 2022
This Saturday, August 20, the inaugural Dallas Celeb Fashion Awards will be held at The Statler hotel in downtown Dallas. Stroud says she created the star-studded event "to honor Black celebrities with iconic brands, to showcase Black designers, and to pay homage to fashion icons."
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Innovative Spaces: See Inside McLaren Automotive’s New North American HQ
by | Aug 17, 2022
McLaren—the British maker of luxury, high-performance supercars—needed to accelerate the look of its new North American HQ in Coppell, just north of Dallas. So before they decamped from New York, they hired Dallas-based Merriman Anderson Architects to conceptualize and design their new campus. Here's a look inside the new 31,000-square-foot campus, which MAA project architect Derek Dizon says "reflects the luxury and innovative brand" of the high-tech supercar maker.
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HackDFW Returns for 2022 to Connect Tech Talent to Companies

by | Aug 17, 2022
The Dallas Regional Chamber's talent-attraction arm — Say Yes to Dallas — powers the event. 

A roster of company sponsors expands career opportunities for HackDFW participants, says DRC's Duane Dankesreiter. “Last year we gave over 600 resumes to participating companies."
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Dallas Invents: 129 Patents Granted for Week of August 2
by | Aug 17, 2022

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros.

Patents granted include:
• 7-Eleven's vector-based object re-identification during image tracking
• Amazon's multi-factor message-based authentication for network resources
• Blue Yonder Group's sentient optimization for continuous supply chain management
• BMIC's methods of forming an adhesive composition from asphalt shingle waste powder
• Cali-Curl's hair curling system
• Gradalis' methods for treating cancers
• McAfee's methods and apparatus to deconflict malware or content remediation
• NCH Corporation's system method and composition for incubating spores for use in aquaculture agriculture wastewater and environmental remediation applications
• vSpatial's devices and methods for creating a collaborative virtual session

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The Last Word: AP’s Will Pender on the Santander Tower Multifamily Reuse Project
by | Aug 16, 2022
Santander Tower is the eighth tallest building in Dallas, and it’s on the cutting edge of something new: converting skyscraper office space into multifamily housing through adaptive reuse.
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Fort Worth-Based American Airlines Orders Up to 20 Boom Supersonic Aircraft
by | Aug 16, 2022
Nearly 30 years after the last Concorde flight, American Airlines is betting on a supersonic future. The Fort Worth-based airline has ordered up to 20 Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft, with an option to order up to 40 more. But don't book your flight yet: Denver-based Boom doesn't expect to roll its first Overture off the production line until 2025, and the first passenger flights are slated for 2029.

When they do take flight, the Overtures are expected to fly up to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7 over water, reaching destinations in as little as half the time of subsonic airliners.
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