ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Super 75
Chris Paladino
President
New Brunswick Development Corp.
He is the master developer of the Helix site (which attracted Nokia Bell Labs) and the Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center in New Brunswick, both of which are coming along quickly. But that’s just the start of his influence in that city — and around the state (see his efforts in Atlantic City and now Paterson, too). Then there’s this: Paladino and DEVCO have long been the model for how to make public-private partnerships work.