ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Super 75
Amy Towers
Board chair
Rutgers Board of Governors
With four key job searches (system president, system general counsel, chancellor at Rutgers-Newark and athletic director at Rutgers-New Brunswick), the job as board chair at Rutgers has never been more important — or more impactful. Doing it at a time when higher ed is under fire (costs of attendance, antisemitism, out-of-touch/out-of-date thinking) makes her role all the more challenging. The underappreciated Towers, a global philanthropist following a stellar career in finance, is up for the role.