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2025TechnologyROI Influencers: Power List 2025 — Technology

ROI Influencers: Power List 2025 — Technology

A quarter of the way into the 21st century and we’re still looking for that Jetsons’ business campus. We may never find it, but some of the technology of today sure is better than what we saw in cartoons.

These folks are bringing science fiction to life.

ROI Influencers

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Jim Barrood

Jim Barrood CEO Innovation + Former head of the NJ Tech Council has remained player in tech sector, bringing innovators together in numerous public (and private) events.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Dan Borok; Vaughn Crowe

Dan Borok; Vaughn Crowe Managing partners Newark Venture Partners Venture capital firm has done a lot for startups in health tech and fintech — and a lot for Newark, too.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Marques Brownlee

Marques Brownlee Social media influencer YouTube His social media reviews of products and interviews with top tech leaders have helped Stevens grad create a following of nearly 20 15 million which watch approximately 750,000 of his videos annually.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Bob Carrigan

Bob Carrigan CEO Audible Longtime leader in audiobook category may soon be getting some serious competition.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Mario Casabona

Mario Casabona Managing director Casabona Ventures He started the state’s first tech accelerator, TechLaunch, in 2011 — and he’s still going strong.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — George Calhoun; Gregory Prastacos

George Calhoun; Gregory Prastacos Professor; Dean Stevens Institute of Technology Calhoun is the managing director of CRAFT, the Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technology; Prastacos heads up the NJ FAST, the New Jersey Fintech Accelerator at Stevens Institute of Technology.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Kathleen Coviello

Kathleen Coviello Chief economic transformation officer N.J. Economic Development Authority She’s the leading figure in every tech-related program (and there are plenty) that is being sponsored by the EDA.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Stephen Dyer

Stephen Dyer Chairman Jumpstart NJ Angel Network Heads member-led angel group of successful serial entrepreneurs, business executives and venture capitalists who actively invest in early-stage startup technology ventures in New Jersey and mid-Atlantic.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Jim Gunton; Steve Socolof

Jim Gunton; Steve Socolof Founder & managing partner; Managing partner Tech Council Ventures Firm invests in the most promising early-stage, rapid-growth technology companies in the mid-Atlantic region. Gunton has been there since its founding in 2001; Socolof joined in 2017.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Paul Hoffman

Paul Hoffman CEO Liberty Science Center He envisioned N.J. has a center for innovation years ago. The coming SciTech Scity will be the ultimate example of that.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan Professor Princeton Long overdue honor for Kernighan, the longtime Princeton computer science professor (after long career at Bell Labs). He is widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Beth Noveck; Jennifer Rexford

Beth Noveck; Jennifer Rexford Chief innovation officer; Provost State of New Jersey; Princeton University They will be key leaders in the AI Hub being created at Princeton.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Greg Olsen

Greg Olsen Founder and president GHO Ventures His impact as a longtime angel investor in the state is well knwown.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Sean O’Sullivan

Sean O’Sullivan Managing general partner SOSV O’Sullivan’s decision to bring HAX (a hard tech accelerator) to Newark already is paying off.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Chaya Pamula

Chaya Pamula Co-founder and CEO PamTen; SheTek; SOFKIN Her company conceptualizes innovative software products that open doors into new marketplaces — but she makes her mark as a philanthropist, having founded both SheTek and SOFKIN.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Aaron Price

Aaron Price CEO TechUnited:NJ Brings attention to the wide array of tech talent in the state through events such as Propelify, while using TechUnited:NJ platform to help attract and grow the next generation of companies.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Judith Sheft

Judith Sheft Executive director N.J. Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology A legendary figure in entrepreneurial ecosystem, she recently was honored with the inaugural Catalyst Award from R&D Council.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Chris Sugden

Chris Sugden Managing partner Edison Partners Has been considered the leading fintech investor on the East Coast for more than 15 years.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Gina Tedesco

Gina Tedesco Managing director Golden Seeds (N.J. chapter) An active investor, serial entrepreneur, professor and mentor for nearly 30 years, she has industry expertise in internet technology, Software-as-a-Service technologies, biotech, pharma and more.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Technology — Duncan Turner

Duncan Turner Managing director HAX One of the top hard tech entrepreneurial experts on the globe (he led HAX Shenzhen for five years) now leads HAX Newark, where he oversees operations and investments.

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