ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Public Relations, Marketing & Communications — Keith Zakheim
Keith Zakheim
CEO
Antenna Group
For more than a decade, he’s led a results-driven integrated marketing agency that partners with innovative climate tech, mobility, spaces and health companies, among others.
ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Public Relations, Marketing & Communications — Carly Wronko
Carly Wronko
Director of marketing
Choose New Jersey
She is the head of marketing at an organization created to market the state. She and her team created products (check out their video) that sell the state to...
ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Public Relations, Marketing & Communications — Kevin Whitmer
Kevin Whitmer
President
Whitmer Consulting
Longtime editor who oversaw the transformation of The Star-Ledger to N.J. Advance Media, he now runs digital media and communications firm that he co-founded with his wife, Regina Whitmer.
ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Public Relations, Marketing & Communications — Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione
Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione
Press secretary
City of Jersey City, Mayor Steve Fulop
Her strong journalism background has helped make her one of the best in the industry when it comes to crisis communications, strategic storytelling and media relations.
ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Public Relations, Marketing & Communications — Bruno Tedeschi
Bruno Tedeschi
Founder
Shadrach Stephens
A former journalist, he works with every type of organization, from small nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies, to drive strategic public relations results.
ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Public Relations, Marketing & Communications — Shannon Tambini
Shannon Tambini
Director of marketing
Middlesex County
No county in the state (maybe the country) markets itself as well as Middlesex does (see ads on TV, Newark airport, etc). It’s another way the county separates itself from...
ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Public Relations, Marketing & Communications — Ron Simoncini
Ron Simoncini
President
Axiom Communications
Marketing master. Check. Crisis communications expert. Check again. Advocate, spokesperson, connector … you get the point. Simoncini does it all.
ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Public Relations, Marketing & Communications — Scott Marioni
Scott Marioni
President
R&J Strategic Communications
He engineered R&J’s transformation from a public relations-focused shop to an integrated digital marketing and PR agency specializing in commercial real estate, health care, human services and nonprofit communications.
ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Public Relations, Marketing & Communications — John Lonsdorf
John Lonsdorf
Founder & CEO
R&J Strategic Communications
One last tip of the hat goes to this Hall of Famer in the industry, who recently retired.
ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Public Relations, Marketing & Communications — Dan Keashen
Dan Keashen
Director
Camden County
The city and county of Camden are continually making news — Keashen makes sure it reaches everyone who needs to know.
