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ROI Influencers: Power List 2024 — New Jersey Executives

This list is the cornerstone of everything we do here at ROI-NJ. It’s a look at the influential people who are running many of the most impactful companies in the state.

How important are these honorees to our state? Many more made our Super 60.

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ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Keith Banks

Keith Banks Vice chair Bank of America Highly regarded executive in finance world also serves as chair of board of trustees of Hackensack Meridian Health.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Casey Bickhardt

Casey Bickhardt President Gemco She heads family-owned manufacturer that specializes in the development of all things powder for the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and additive manufacturing industries.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Gillian Bleimann

Gillian Bleimann CEO Berje She is the third-generation CEO of the fragrance/essential oils company.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — David Burke

David Burke Celebrity chef & culinary pioneer Various restaurants Red Horse by David Burke at the Bernards Inn, a modern American steakhouse, is the latest of his nearly two dozen top eateries in the state.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Mitch Cahn

Mitch Cahn President Unionwear He is one of the largest private employers of Newark residents and leading manufacturer of hats, bags and binders — and he does it all with union labor.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Anthony Calandra

Anthony Calandra CEO Calandra Enterprises Providing strong leadership for third-generation family business, which has diversified from its bakery roots to include restaurants and hotels.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Bob Carrigan

Bob Carrigan CEO Audible It’s not all rosy for the Amazon company, which continues to be the leader in audiobooks — and in philanthropy in Newark. It recently announced layoffs, just the latest in the tech industry to do so.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Robert Carvalho

Robert Carvalho CEO EAI He heads a company founded in 1991 to provide turnkey solutions to both private and public clients as a full-service environmental management firm.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Guy Chiarello

Guy Chiarello Chief operating officer Fiserv To be sure, it’s national/global brand, but he is one of the key leaders of company’s push into N.J. in its dynamic office in Berkeley Heights, where it employs thousands.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Amy Cradic

Amy Cradic Chief operating officer N.J. Resources An expert in corporate strategy, crisis management, environmental sustainability, policy analysis and land use, she is a model executive in the energy industry and regulated government entities.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Dan Fachner

Dan Fachner Chairman & CEO J&J Snack Foods How’s this for a tag line: Responsibly serving fun. Company (which owns SuperPretzel and Dippin’ Dots, among dozens of others) makes environment, social & governance a priority (from sourcing sustainable products to giving back to communities...

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Gail Friedberg Rottenstrich

Gail Friedberg Rottenstrich Co-founder & CEO ZAGO Manufacturing Co. Inc. Runs woman-owned global manufacturer of high-tech sealing fasteners and components in Newark — and is a councilmember in her hometown of Fair Lawn.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Janice Fuller

Janice Fuller President, Mid-Atlantic Anbaric "Off-shore wind still figures to have big future in state. She is an experienced leader with all the right connections on the ground, she heads the New Jersey efforts for an Anbaric team that plays well nationally."

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — David Gockel

David Gockel CEO Langan Engineering and Environmental Services He has recently received an Impact Award from NAIOP N.J. and an entrepreneur award from EY — but he’s most proud that Langan is often named a Best Place to Work.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Marilyn Grabowski

Marilyn Grabowski Founder & president Atlantic Infra The company is comprised of three rapidly growing certified construction companies that service the utility industry — and employs more than 100 people.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Kim Hanemann

Kim Hanemann President Public Service Electric & Gas Energy efficiency always will be part of her talking points, but she’s also quick to address the need of utilities to work with unions and to attract a more diverse workforce.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Larry Inserra

Larry Inserra Chairman & CEO Inserra Supermarkets Highly regarded exec continues to open ShopRite stores (recently in Elmwood Park and Fair Lawn) and continues his work in the business community (he’s on board of trustees of Hackensack Meridian Health and chairs its Carrier Clinic...

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Shaun Keegan

Shaun Keegan Co-founder & CEO Solar Landscape A bill signed at beginning of year to further strengthen N.J.’s community solar program will be great for business for Keegan’s company, which he co-founded in 2012.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Rick Martinez

Rick Martinez Co-founder and president Senor Sangria "Maplewood-based brand has made big expansion to the Midwest – and soon will offer product in single-use cans."

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Mark McDonough

Mark McDonough President N.J. American Water Among achievements in 2023 was the opening of the Lawnside Operations Center in Camden, which will bring 83 employees to facility that will help service approximately 400,000 people in Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Sean McMenamin

Sean McMenamin Chairman Wakefern Food Corp. He’s the new leader of the one

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Christie McMullen

Christie McMullen President & chief operating officer Elizabethtown Gas Experienced energy and utilities executive with a focus on gas and electric operations and process improvement is best known for her ability to lead teams through transformational changes.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Jayne Millard

Jayne Millard Executive chairman & co-CEO Turtle She is the fourth-generation leader of 100-year-old industrial supply company that works with end users in the industrial, commercial and energy sector.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Doug Mokoid

Doug Mokoid Region president Atlantic City Electric Atlantic City Electric recently earned regulatory approval to spend $93 million on a portfolio of clean-energy projects, including allowing customers to hook up solar arrays to the utility’s power grid.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Valerie Montecalvo

Valerie Montecalvo Co-founder & CEO Bayshore Family of Cos. Family of nine diversified companies specializes in solutions for proper, environmentally sensitive recycling and solid waste management.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Dina Opici

Dina Opici President Opici Family Distributing Family-owned business, which started in 1934, is annually ranked on the Wines and Vines Top 10 list of wine distributors in the county.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Melissa Orsen

Melissa Orsen President South Jersey Industries Orsen, the first woman to serve as president of South Jersey Industries, now oversees both South Jersey Gas and Elizabethtown Gas.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Michael O’Sullivan

Michael O’Sullivan CEO Burlington Stores South Jersey company, which is seeing huge interest from private equity groups, has seen a significant rise in its share price (more than 60%) in recent months.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Sam Pipitone

Sam Pipitone CEO F&S Produce The Vineland-based company processes more than 100 million pounds of fruits and vegetables for the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Calvin Quallis

Calvin Quallis Founder & CEO Scotch Porter Oversees all brand, product development and marketing initiatives of the quickly growing men’s grooming company in the health, beauty and wellness sector.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Mike Ricketts

Mike Ricketts CEO Quality Packaging Specialists International Burlington-based QPSI is an industry leader in contract packaging and supply chain management — and has served consumer goods and pharma industries for more than 40 years.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Lilia Rios

Lilia Rios Entrepreneur La Providencia; Nuuku La Providencia, the maker of authentic Mexican products for restaurants, sells in 22 states. Nuuku is a boutique hotel located in the heart of the jungle of the Mexican Riviera Maya.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Marcus Samuelsson

Marcus Samuelsson Owner & chef Marcus B&P He helped bring attention to Newark by opening his Marcus B&P restaurant there; he helped save Newark by working with Newark Working Kitchens during pandemic.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Steven Silverstein

Steven Silverstein CEO Spencer Spirit Holdings He is the head of two N.J. companies that everyone has visited — as a teen and an adult — and had fun doing so: Spencer’s and Spirit Halloween.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — David Winslow

David Winslow Head of operations GZA GeoEnvironmental Leads team that provides environmental consulting services for contaminated real estate acquisitions and development projects, including environmental due diligence on Brownfield projects.

ROI Influencers Power List 2024: New Jersey Executives — Chao Yan

Chao Yan CEO Princeton NuEnergy The clean-tech innovator specializing in recycling, repurposing and commercializing lithium-ion battery materials recently closed a $16 million Series A funding round.

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