2022

Ranjini Poddar Co-founder & CEO Artech Information Systems The full-service staffing firm Poddar started in 1992 is now the largest woman-owned information technology staffing company in the U.S., serving nearly 100 Fortune 500 companies. Chaya PamulaSuuchi Ramesh  

Don Katz Founder; Investor Audible and Newark Venture Partners Through Audible, NVP and his numerous other philanthropic ventures, few have done more for Newark and N.J. – and technological ecosystem in the state – than Katz, a...

Robert Cohen President, digital, robotics and enabling technologies Stryker He is the head of several key technologies at Stryker, one of the world’s leading health care technology companies, and chair of the board of trustees at New...

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. Mario CasabonaEmmanuel Esochaghi  

Marc Betesh Founder & president Visual Lease Its SaaS platform helps organizations become compliant with FASB, IFRS and GASB standards, while simultaneously improving the financial, legal and operational performance of their leases. Alex BaydinJassi Chadha  

Sandra Powell-Elliott VP, Life science and innovation Hackensack Meridian Health Her role is to foster and develop an innovative culture, internally and externally, involving everything from precision medicine to new product and solution development to new business...

Jason Corso Director Stevens Institute of artificial intelligence Stevens feels AI is the next big thing. Corso, whose research lies at the intersection of visual computational systems, natural language, the physical environment and, of course, humans, heads...

Angelo Stracquatanio Co-founder & CEO Apprentice.io Company, which employed 18 people at start of pandemic, now has 200, as demand for its pharma manufacturing software grew. Recently raised $100 million in Series C funding. Madhu StemmermannWim Sweldens  

Thai Lee Co-founder/CEO SHI International Shortly after announcing a record $12.3 billion in revenues in 2021, the Somerset-based company announced that Oracle has verified its new product (SHI Oracle Discovery Application), which arms SHI customers with greater...

  Innovating: If your company isn’t doing it, it probably will not be around for very long. We all get that. The question is: Who is doing it best? That’s what we set out to tackle...