ROI Influencers: Manufacturing — Chuck Campagna
Chuck Campagna
CEO & president
Amerlux
Campagna spent five years as a linebacker and nose tackle in the NFL and Canadian Football League. There, he learned that he had a head not only for stopping the ball...
ROI Influencers: Manufacturing — Paul Bakus
Paul Bakus
President, North America
Puratos
With over 30 years' experience at Nestlé, Bakus fits in well at the innovative food maker in Pennsauken. Much of his time is spent at the company's local Innovation Center, which...
ROI Influencers: Manufacturing — Giovanni Caforio
Giovanni Caforio
CEO
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Caforio is the man in charge of one of the most important pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. and beyond. He is a physician, and in his various positions he has held...
ROI Influencers: Manufacturing — John Kennedy
John Kennedy
CEO
N.J. Manufacturing Extension Program
When it comes to manufacturing in New Jersey, there's no one that knows the industry better than John Kennedy. More importantly, there is no one with more passion for it.
As...
ROI Influencers: Manufacturing — Mitch Cahn
Mitch Cahn
President
Unionwear
Cahn started Unionwear in 1992 with six sewers and a contract to make baseball hats for Ralph Lauren. Now, the company is one of the largest private employers of Newark residents, is the...
ROI Influencers: Manufacturing — Haskell Berman
Haskell Berman
Senior vice president – state affairs
HealthCare Institute of New Jersey
Berman's role as a voice with the trade association that represents New Jersey’s research-based biopharmaceutical and medical technology industries is to keep the state...
ROI Influencers: Manufacturing — Mari Kovach; Barbara McGivney
Mari Kovach; Barbara McGivney
Co-CEOs
General Technical Services LLC
As co-CEOs, they shares overall profit & loss responsibility as well as setting the strategy direction of GTS and defining the path for growth.
Steve Kohn Nolan Lewin
ROI Influencers: Manufacturing — Marcia Frieze
Michael Heltzer
CEO
Case Medical
Frieze is a lifelong advocate for safer, more sustainable practices in health care, and has invented and developed numerous products for cleaning and sterilization.
Gail Friedberg RottenstrichPete Furey
ROI Influencers: Manufacturing — Michael Heltzer
Michael Heltzer
Head of state government affairs
BASF
As a member of the Legal Department, Heltzer leads the Florham Park-based chemical producer’s team that drives state advocacy nationwide and collaborates with executives to set policy.
Dennis HartRick...
ROI Influencers: Manufacturing — Alexandra Groezinger
Alexandra Groezinger
Vice president
Groezinger Provisions Inc.
Specializes in manufacturing pâtés and specialty meats in Neptune under the Groezinger and Alexian brand names. This “Made in New Jersey” manufacturer has been in business since 1982, distributing its...
