2022

Will Lutz New Jersey Institute of Technology Lutz serves as the general manager for entrepreneurship, commercialization and enterprise development at New Jersey Innovation Institute and is co-director of NJII’s VentureLink, the largest business incubator in New...

Eric Liguori Rowan University Ranked among the nation’s Top 50, Rowan’s entrepreneurship program encourages entrepreneurial thinking across majors. Liguori leads the Rohrer College of Business-based program, featuring annual, universitywide competitions to spur creative thinking such as the...

Yuping Huang Stevens Institute for Technology The Stevens-based photonics venture, QPhoton, was recently acquired by Quantum Computing and will now operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of QCI, with Huang joining QCI as a director and...

Pavita Howe Rutgers University Howe serves as the director, entrepreneurship partnerships, at Rutgers, helping to mentor, fund and launch entrepreneurial startups. She was responsible for launching and managing the TechAdvance program, which funded 50 projects for...

Keith Bostian Kean University Bostian is the CEO of the Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship at Kean University, where he helped create Biotech LaunchPad, a comprehensive suite of business and scientific services to support the commercial...

David Stout President Brookdale Community College A longtime leader in the state, the school serves more than 20,000 students at its six locations throughout Monmouth County, including the picturesque 220-acre main campus in Lincroft. Lamont RepolletNancy Cantor  

Lamont Repollet President Kean University In his first two years at the school, Kean was named the state’s first Urban Research University, acquired the John S. Watson Institute, launched partnerships with the New York Jets and New...

Joseph Nyre President Seton Hall University In an extraordinary gesture, Nyre and his wife, Kelli Nyre, made a $500,000 gift to the school to underwrite scholarships for students and innovative research and instructional activities of faculty. Bruce MurphyLamont...

Bruce Murphy President Centenary University Murphy helps create strategic plan that would better align school’s academic programs with emerging market needs, most notably health sciences — including a new RN-BSN program — to address region's critical shortage. Michael...

Michael McDonough President Raritan Valley Community College Raritan Valley continually is ranked as a top community college in New Jersey and around the country. McDonough, who was named president in June 2014, is a big reason why. Mark...