From the magazine desk to the book auction to a Greenwich Village dining room, the Aevitas co-CEO has made a career of bringing people and ideas into company.

Before she co-founded Special Projects, Nicole Vecchiarelli edited magazines. Her second act carries the same question into a different setting: who belongs in this story, and why now?

He went to Moscow as a feature writer, came home with a Pulitzer, and took charge of The New Yorker without surrendering the habit that got him there: asking one more question.