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EVENTS town is our biggest asset,” Busch said. “Any per- from sharing information, coordinating with An example of this coordination came in Allison Morgart [email protected] son in the position of leadership in a community borough officials, helping businesses create May 2020 when officials passed a resolution like ours has to take their biggest asset seriously.” new promotions and ways to adapt and in- that eased restrictions, allowing businesses to CIRCULATION For subscriptions call 1-877-615-9536. Isaac Kremer, who has served as Execu- novate and navigate the tricky CARES Act and expand outdoor dining and retail. The success The entire contents of this paper are copyrighted by BridgeTower tive Director of the Metuchen Downtown Al- NJEDA funding processes. The latter resulted of that program evolved into a full-time out- Media, with all rights reserved. Reproduction or use, without liance for the last four-plus years, recalled this in more than 130 businesses receiving nearly door dining area, which remains to this day, permission, of editorial or graphic content in any manner is defining moment in the Borough’s fight against $13 million in total funds. called the “New Streetery.” One lane of New prohibited. NJ Biz (USPS #3345) is published weekly except last week of April, two weeks in May, last week in June, first and COVID-19. “We had about two hours of notice “One of the most important things we do Street is closed to traffic with outdoor tents, last issues in July, week of Labor Day, week of Thanksgiving in to pull the businesses together and we knew that as an Alliance is to help knit together all the tables, chairs, light and heaters available to November, and last issue in December by BridgeTower Media, the shutdown was going to be imminent,” Kre- businesses in the community,” Kremer said. surrounding restaurants, provided by the MDA 1500 Paxton St. Harrisburg, PA 17104. The office of the mer explained. “So it was all about what can the “So that they realize ways that they’re con- via grants from the New Jersey Department of publisher is 220 Davidson Ave., Ste. 302, Somerset, NJ 08873. borough do? What can the Alliance do to help nected and they can benefit from being in this Community Affairs. In October, Kremer and To place orders, temporarily stop service, or to change your address, or to order back issues, or to inquire about billing or these businesses adapt, adjust and respond?” place, being close to one another.” the MDA helped secure that $655,000, which need technical support with login issues on our website: And they got to work. also provided direct funding assistance to nu- Phone: 877-615-9536 The following day, Gov. Phil Murphy signed FIGHTING ON merous downtown businesses. Email: [email protected] an executive order closing numerous business- The Metuchen Downtown Alliance, Alberto Buglione, owner of Mangia To- Mail: NJBIZ es, schools, imposing a curfew on non-essential which was created in 2016, is an all-volunteer scano, is especially grateful for the expansion Subscription Services retail stores, and limiting restaurants to just effort that has received National Main Street of outdoor dining, which he had been lobbying PO Box 1051 takeout and delivery service. While Metuchen’s accreditation. The Alliance has worked hand- for in years past. He said that both the borough Williamsport, PA 17703-9940 pandemic planning had begun well in advance in-glove with the borough to lay out and ex- and the Alliance have helped and supported If your newspaper is damaged, missing or late: Call 877- of the shutdown, the fateful Sunday meeting ecute a vision of both short and long-term de- restaurants with anything they needed. 615-9536 or email [email protected]. If your issue frequently arrives late, contact your letter carrier or your resulted in several important steps. Among the velopment in Metuchen’s downtown. “I’m thankful to the borough because we local postmaster. programs that came out of that meeting were While that relationship has resulted call them, they respond to us,” Buglione said. POSTMASTER: Electronic ACS service requested. Send the Metuchen Delivers campaign, the desig- in a development boom that started before “We have some issues going on, they resolve address changes to NJ Biz, Subscription Services, PO Box 1051 nation of several downtown parking spots for COVID-19, with more than 120 business it for us. I think they’ve been very helpful for Williamsport, PA 17703-9940. Periodical postage paid at curbside pickup to support local restaurants starts since 2016, it has also paid dividends our business, especially the Metuchen Down- Harrisburg, PA 17107 with additional entry offices in Phila- delphia, PA 19104 and Easton MD 21601. Subscription rate being forced to switch to all takeout and deliv- in combatting the pandemic. The planning, town Alliance. They did a great job.” is $79 for 1 year. ery, and Feeding the Front Lines, which raised coordination, and communication allowed Busch and Kremer pointed out that their money to buy food from local spots for frontline for swift decision-making and expedited ac- COVID-19 efforts would be meaningless workers and area shelters. tion. “We began to anticipate it and I don’t without the businesses buying in and adapt- Kremer also tapped into his experience think anybody initially realized how serious ing, and most importantly, without the sup- as a FEMA contractor during Hurricane Ka- this was going to be, but we knew enough to port of the Metuchen community. Early in the trina to assist his more than 350 Alliance understand that this was going to impact the pandemic, the rallying cry of #OneMetuchen members through this once-in-a-generation fabric of our small businesses,” Busch said. See METUCHEN on page 8

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www.StJosephsHealth.org GROWTH INDUSTRY Experts on an NJBIZ panel offered advice on how businesses WORKPLACE ISSUES CREAMMA prohibits employers from should prepare for the advent of recreational adult-use of cannabis terminating an employee for testing positive for cannabinoids, raising concerns that BY GABRIELLE SAULSBERY application rounds, this factor was pass/ ance” of selling, general and administrative businesses wouldn’t be able to stop an em- @GSAULSBERY fail, DiPisa said, and if a town is not can- expense deductions, Gittler said. ployee from coming to work high. nabis friendly, the administration will fight However, “New Jersey has a law in pro- Though CREAMMA makes no excep- efore the Cannabis Regulatory, En- you every step of the way. It might not be cess to decouple the tax law form the feder- tions for safety-sensitive jobs, there are a hand- forcement Assistance, & Market- a blanket rejection, though. Torpey noted al law,” Gittler said, which might make the ful of gap-fillers, Roselle explained. Those sub- Bplace Modernization Act became that it’s possible a town that bans cannabis relevant IRS code section not applicable for ject to federal contract rules can be prohibited law in February, dozens of New Jersey retail would allow cultivation. taxes in New Jersey. from consuming cannabis in their free time, as towns enacted local ordinances prohibiting “The one thing they can’t ban is de- Gittler and DiPisa also discussed the can those with a commercial driver’s license. cannabis businesses from setting up shop livery … consumers will be able to receive issues cannabis business have banking, Guidelines for law enforcement from the At- within their borders. Others, like Jersey City cannabis products through delivery in ev- and what fixes could be coming down the torney General prohibit cannabis consump- and Asbury Park, were openly hospitable ery town. But the municipality can ban the pike. “The best thing that I saw was Gover- tion, which Roselle believes would trump the and welcoming to them. licenses, can ban it entirely or ban different nor Murphy’s idea [to set up] a state bank lack of an exception in CREAMMA. Robert DiPisa, who co-chairs the can- license categories,” Torpey said. that’s going to be for-profit and the money However, for all other employers, there nabis practice at Cole Schotz, recommends Beyond municipal officials, Roselle will go back into the till so to speak … and is currently nothing on the books that would that interested dispensary or grow opera- advised potential operators to consider support [social equity],” Gittler said. help them prohibit employees from get- tors approach municipal administrations townsfolk as well. With 67% of New Jer- As of right now, DiPisa said the options ting high in their off-hours. Workplace Im- that were previously against it or aren’t yet seyans voting “yes” to legal adult use can- business owners have now are state-char- pairment Recognition Experts, written into known as cannabis business friendly, be- nabis, there’s still a “large significant mi- tered banks that are taking on plant-touch- CREAMMA and likely to be fleshed out by cause competition for licenses likely won’t nority out there” that’s not interested in ing operators only as a depository. the CRC in the coming months, represent an be as hot there. cannabis businesses. “The problem is ... [the Financial employer’s opportunity to prevent high em- “You have to imagine there’s going “Chances are, attitudes didn’t change Crimes Enforcement Network] gives banks ployees, but the training isn’t available yet. to be more applications” in towns that overnight, and the last thing you want to do guidance, if you are going to be banking In the interim, now’s the time to de- have been pro-cannabis, he explained. is to set up shop somewhere that’s number these types of operators, here’s how you do cide who the WIREs will be, Roselle said. “The state wants to do diversification, all one, going to fight you and number two, is it. And there’s a cost associated with act- “Do you want it to be your HR person? Do throughout the state …there’s certainly going to have a row of pickets outside that ing as a depository,” DiPisa said. “There’s you want it to be someone higher than HR? some sleeper municipalities … do your due make your life a living nightmare anytime certain auditing responsibilities, and what Who can you trust? Because remember, es- diligence, don’t just flock to those overly you’re there. That really does become a you’re seeing is those state-chartered pecially in my union settings, I’m going to welcoming cities.” huge consideration,” Roselle said. banks … they’re passing those costs directly have to prove cause [to order a drug test], so DiPisa was joined by PKF O’Connor Cannabis businesses don’t just have through to those who are banking with the who’s my witness?” Roselle said. Davies Cannabis Practice Co-Chair Jeffrey to appease towns and follow the state law. bank and it’s not cheap. On a monthly ba- Though it’s not enacted, Torpey said he Gittler, Genova Burns LLC Counsel Jenni- Federal regulations also apply, which, in sis, it’s very expensive.” These costs are in wouldn’t be surprised if more legislation was fer Roselle, and GTB Partners LLC Partner the case of tax law, currently prohibit can- addition to the heavy costs of getting a can- forthcoming to encompass high-risk jobs. Michael Torpey for a panel discussion titled nabis businesses from taking deductions nabis business off the ground, he noted. “At the very end [of the legislative pro- Cannabis: The Effect on New Jersey Busi- allowed for other businesses since the plant Last week, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez cess] there was a push to impose some of ness panel, held via Zoom and moderated is still classified as a controlled substance. reintroduced the Secure and Fair En- these workplace safety [measures] … there by NJBIZ Editor Jeff Kanige. “Let’s take for instance a dispensary forcement Banking Act, which would was a great deal of sympathy for it,” Torpey First and foremost, interested opera- that might have a lot of advertising … they give cannabis businesses fairer access to said. “I was surprised at how forceful the ef- tors must gain community support from theoretically could end up at about a 70% banks. The bill has 29 sponsors and co- forts were at the end, and nearly successful.” the town they’re looking to enter. In prior effective tax rate because of the disallow- sponsors in the Senate. Email: [email protected]

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And to all the honorees recognized for their commitment to making a difference in the quality of health care in New Jersey.

Sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen METUCHEN Kremer said Metuchen is raising the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 stakes for other communities in the region and throughout New Jersey by demonstrat- emerged to drive the point of everyone being how a connected, caring community ing in it together. Banners with the slogan can come together and emerge from this still hang around the downtown. crisis stronger. “It is a great environment for “I am so proud of the versatility of this people to open a business and I think we will town, the strength of our community, and continue to be defined by that next thing we the perseverance of our people,” Busch said. do, the next thing we take on,” Kremer said. Elie Honig, a CNN legal analyst and There are several major downtown proud, long-time Metuchen resident, admits projects on the horizon, including a rehabil- that he was concerned about the downtown’s itation of the famed Forum Theater, which survival, especially early on in the pandemic is expected to be an anchor of the down- when the usually bustling area had turned town. Another development project that has into a ghost town. “Oh my goodness,” Honig borough officials and residents excited is a said he thought. “Are we going to lose every- planned pocket park and beer garden right one? Or are we going to lose 50 percent of in the middle of the downtown, through a these businesses, 80 percent a year later.” collaboration with Manasquan Bank. To date, 20 businesses have shut down Honig believes Metuchen has managed - MATT FAZELPOOR since the pandemic began, but 14 new ones to evolve and grow while keeping a small- have opened. While there is never comfort comes together. “I think our local leaders, from times in so many different ways and were of town feel, and credits the mayor’s leadership in any business closures, people around the mayor on down, have shown the power of great service to our businesses and the Al- and vision. “I think he [Busch] has done a Metuchen are pleased with where things are what good, local, effective governance can do liance. And I’ll always be grateful for that.” superb job of leading the town toward devel- at a year after that Sunday all-hands meeting. in striking the perfect balance between safety And while the daily COVID-19 battle con- opment and bringing in new businesses that “I would never have thought it would coming first, but also supporting and protect- tinues as vaccinations ramp-up, with a hopeful have contributed to our economy and to our be possible to come through the pandem- ing your local businesses,” Honig said. “There’s return to some sort of ‘normalcy’ possibly later social fabric. But, at the same time, doing so ic as well as the borough has,” Busch said. a real pride that people take in the town with in 2021, Metuchen also remains committed to in a careful and responsible way,” Honig said. “It was so daunting and so our only choice the success of our businesses.” fulfilling its long-term development vision. In showcasing his pride for the Brainy was to do everything we could to support Kremer agreed. “The Borough of Mayor Busch said he is optimistic Borough, Busch referenced one of its most the community, to support the different Metuchen is a model of a responsive gov- about how Metuchen will emerge from the infamous and native sons. “It was former aspects of the borough.” ernment,” he said. “There is nothing that pandemic and believes that the town was resident, David Copperfield, who said that Honig said Metuchen’s story is an ex- we [the MDA] asked for that we did not re- on the cusp of an attention explosion right Metuchen is the best little town in the world. ample of what a community can do when it ceive, and they came to the table so many before COVID-19 struck. It’s really a quaint yet bustling community.”

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BY JEFFREY KANIGE even frightened as COVID19 swept across in helping public health officials get a @JKANIGE the country and to every corner of New Jer- handle on where the virus was spreading. sey. But many of us were able to sequester Brooks died of a heart attack in Janu- TABLE OF CONTENTS ary at age 51. But he will not be forgotten. eaders may well think that compiling a ourselves at home and carry on with our 1. JUDITH PERSICHILLI 12 Rlist of health care leaders during a deadly work in the company of close family. Medi- When the history of COVID-19 is written, global pandemic would be easy. And, in fact, cal and emergency professionals faced the his name will feature prominently among 2. ROBERT GARRETT 12 most of the selections were glaringly obvious. threat every day – with some even giving the true heroes of the age. The top ten this year represents an honor roll their lives – to help control the pandemic. So when you read through these pro- 3. ALEX GORSKY 14 of dedicated, energetic and talented public And second, we should honor the files, remember that the fight against the pan- health officials, researchers and hospital sys- memory of someone who would certainly demic was – and remains – a monumental 4. BRIAN STROM 14 tem executives. New Jerseyans owe a debt of have been among the honorees profiled in undertaking. Right now, experts expect that & PERRY HALKITIS gratitude to everyone profiled here because as these pages if he hadn’t been taken from the vaccination program will finally begin to awful as the COVID-19 outbreak has been, the us too soon. Andrew extinguish the pandemic. Summer this year 5. SHEREEF ELNAHAL 16 state would have been much worse off if not Brooks, a researcher and should be far more enjoyable than last year. for the efforts these individuals. professor at Rutgers Uni- But as we begin to gather again for backyard 6. BARRY OSTROWSKY 16 But we should all take time to recognize versity, last spring de- barbecues or in ballparks, we should always 7. BRIAN GRAGNOLATI 18 some people whose vital work is not reflected veloped a saliva test for recall what it was like in the early days and here because of the limitations of the format. COVID-19 that yielded how some of our best fellow citizens worked 8. ROBERT JOHNSON 18 First, of course, are the doctors, nurses, results far more quickly tirelessly to get us through the darkness. medical technicians, first responders and than the nasal swab test Brooks Please let us know what you think of 9. STEVE RUSCKOWSKI 20 everyone else in the health care profes- then most commonly used. At a time when our selections – or just share your personal sion who willingly accepted the challenge testing was considered crucial, Brooks’ stories. As always, the top ten leaders are 10. CATHLEEN BENNETT 21 of battling the virus on the ground at great breakthrough, and his ability to scale pro- ranked in numerical order. The remaining personal risk. Residents across the state duction quickly enough to make the test honorees are listed alphabetically. HONOREES 11-50 22-34 were worried, concerned, anxious and widely available, was a critical development Email: [email protected]

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JUDITH PERSICHILLI he woman who needs no introduction” Persichilli’s agency will handle the state’s “Thas been a fixture at news briefings inoculation efforts -- part of what could be the conducted by Gov. Phil Murphy and other top largest public health undertaking in U.S. his- state health officials update the public on just tory. And the department will track just where where things stand with the pandemic. That new variants spread and what it means for the role earned the state’s health commissioner the state’s reopening. number two spot on the NJBIZ 2021 Power 100 The Health Department has played key roles 12021 list just over a month ago. in similar areas thus far in the pandemic: hos- The parameters of the pandemic are chang- pital capacity, vaccine roll-out to date and the ing quickly, and Persichilli oversees the state’s health of the state’s health care infrastructure. response. Thanks to a collaboration between She’s been a key player in New Jersey’s response New Jersey drugmakers Johnson & Johnson to the pandemic, and a face of those efforts. and Merck, the Biden and Murphy administra- A career nurse, Persichilli previously served tions expect a surge in vaccine supply in early as the state-appointed monitor to oversee the fi- April, allowing for a much faster reopening from nances and other housekeeping of the troubled pandemic restrictions. The hope is that enough University Hospital in Newark. She essentially Under Persichilli’s watch the state’s health people will be vaccinated in the state that life - swapped places with Shereef Elnahal, who left care industry was repurposed to deal with the and business - can resume a large semblance of his post as health commissioner to become public health emergency. That included a normalcy this summer. University Hospital’s chief executive officer. three-month ban on elective surgeries, which Running parallel, the presence of several new The seas were calm when her appointment raised concerns among medical professionals. variants threaten to reverse considerable progress was announced in June 2019. Now, her depart- And it meant the dramatic expansion of bed the state has made on containing the pandemic. ment serves as a focal point for the state’s hos- capacity and a desperately needed supply of The B117 variant, first detected in the U.K., could pitals that have handled the brunt of the pan- ventilators, masks, gloves and other personal become the dominant strain across the nation this demic. Hospitalizations surged to over 8,000 protective equipment. The state’s public health spring. The emergence of the more infectious mu- COVID-19 patients at the height of the first efforts, with Persichilli in the lead, avoided the tation creates what public health experts character- wave, and currently thousands of people are worst-case scenarios and now turn to finally ize as a race between the variants and the vaccine. hospitalized due to the virus. ending the outbreak.

ROBERT GARRETT s CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health, Garrett runs New Jersey’s larg- Aest health network with 17 hospitals, 500 patient care locations, 35,000 team members and 6,500 physicians. The network has played a major role in the COVID-19 pandemic, including treating more patients than any network in New Jersey and developing major breakthroughs – the state’s first rapid COVID-19 test, reducing wait time from days to a just a few hours and developing nearly a dozen clinical trials for COVID therapies, including con- 2 valescent plasma therapy. The network continues to participate in clinical trials to deliver safe and effective vaccines. Under Garrett’s leadership, HMH has made strides in medical education, behavioral health care, cancer care and innovation and research. It opened the first private medical school in New Jersey in decades. The Hack- ensack Meridian School of Medicine offers a curriculum that includes a three-year path to residency, a community immersion program and inter- disciplinary learning. In 2019, the network merged with Carrier Clinic, New Jersey’s largest behavioral health provider, to expand access to treatment, better coordinate care and develop therapies. The merger resulted in the opening of the first urgent care behavioral health center in New Jersey as well as a new state-of- the art destination addiction treatment center that opened in February 2021.

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ALEX GORSKY orsky was named CEO of Johnson & the third COVID-19 vaccine available in GJohnson in April 2012 and chairman the U.S. However, unlike the Pfizer and later in the year. As one of the largest and Moderna vaccines, J&J’s version requires most prominent pharmaceutical compa- only one dose. And it does not need deep nies in the world, Johnson & Johnson was refrigeration as the others do, meaning bound to be a critical component of the that it does not present the same logis- fight against COVID-19. And the company tical challenges. Thus, it can be distrib- 3did not disappoint. uted more easily and more widely. Under Gorsky's leadership the Recently, J&J agreed to work with in- Johnson & Johnson single-dose COVID state rival Merck to increase production vaccine received the green light for peo- of the shot under a partnership brokered ple aged 18 and older on Feb. 27 after the by the Biden Administration. So when the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- state, the nation and the world needed an tion’s Advisory Committee on Immu- organization to take a leadership role amid nization Practices voted 12-0, with one a public health emergency, Gorsky’s com- recusal, to recommend its use. It became pany answered the call.

BRIAN STROM & PERRY HALKITIS

alkitis is Dean and Professor of Biostatis- RWJBarnabas Health to create New Jersey’s larg- Htics and Urban-Global Public Health at the est and most comprehensive academic health School of Public Health at Rutgers and Strom is system; and headed a major recruitment drive 4 the first chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and to bring biomedical researchers and clinicians Health Sciences and the executive vice presi- to Rutgers. In the past year under his direc- dent for Health Affairs at the university. tion, research awards for Rutgers Biomedical Under their leadership, Rutgers has been and Health Sciences, which includes Rutgers active in all things COVID for the past year and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers change, with the creation of the Center for CO- New Jersey Medical School and other schools, VID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness, jumped from $296.5 million to $390.8 million, or the nation’s largest study on health care workers 31.8%, from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2019. exposed to COVID-19, and of course, the cre- Halkitis, a public health psychologist, re- ation of the saliva test that’s made collecting a searcher and educator, is the author of the 2019 sample for the virus much easier for certain pop- book, Out in Time: The Public Lives of Gay Men ulations. And before the release of the vaccine, from Stonewall to the Queer Generation. His contact tracing was one of the only tools—be- 2013 book, The AIDS Generation: Stories of Sur- sides PPE and social distancing—in New Jersey’s vival and Resilience, is a 2014 Lambda Literary toolbelt to stop the spread of the disease, which Award nominee. Both books received the Amer- has killed more than 24,000 people statewide. ican Psychological Association Distinguished The challenging task is one they’re still involved Book Award in LGBT Psychology. Halkitis is also in more than a year after the pandemic’s onset the author of Methamphetamine Addiction: -- both were picked by the Murphy administra- Biological Foundations, Psychological Factors, tion to run the state’s COVID-19 contact tracing and Social Consequences, and lead editor of program to isolate cases and prevent outbreaks. two additional books. He has written more than During his six years at Rutgers, Strom has 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts and appears fre- spearheaded the creation of an interprofes- quently on television, radio, and podcasts. He is, sional faculty practice group, the Rutgers Health for example, an almost nightly fixture on the NJ Group; established a formal partnership with PBS broadcast NJ Spotlight News.

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SHEREEF ELNAHAL lnahal left his job as state health commissioner a few months before the Estate was hit with a horrific public health crisis. So while his successor in the administration was left to grapple with the statewide response, Elnahal fought the pandemic in one the state’s worst-hit locales: Newark. He is the president and chief executive officer of University Hospital in the city, the state's only public hospital and its largest safety net hospital. 5 As the second wave ebbed and vaccines started to roll out, Elnahal was in a perfect position to help overcome resistance to the shots in communities of color that have been poorly served in the past and have good reason to be skeptical of public health officials. And he has been one of the leading voices in that effort, visible on the local, state and national levels. “Really, it’s on us to recognize, legitimize and listen to these concerns and clearly contrast how this vaccination effort is different in that it’s not explicitly harming people of color,” he told NJBIZ in December. “But it will help people of color disproportionately because our community here in Newark and so many others like it had been disproportionately devastated by this pandemic.”

BARRY OSTROWSKY

leven acute care hospitals, three children’s New Jersey Health Care Affordabil- Ehospitals, a pediatric rehabilitation hospital ity Advisory Group. The committee’s and multiple outpatient facilities, ambulatory objective is to advise the Health Care care centers, geriatric centers, a free-standing Affordability Interagency Workgroup, behavioral health center, and New Jersey’s larg- chaired by the Director of the Of- est statewide behavioral health network all have fice of Health Care Affordability and 6 something in common: They’re all under the Transparency, Shabnam Salih, on the RWJBarnabas Health umbrella, led by Ostrowsky development and implementation of as president and CEO since 2016. Also within the health care cost growth benchmarks. system are a satellite emergency department, The benchmarks provide an oppor- trauma centers, comprehensive home care and tunity for increased oversight and ac- hospice programs, pharmacy services, multi- countability and will further advance site imaging centers, an accountable care orga- the Administration’s efforts to pro- nization and the Combined Medical Group of vide more accessible, affordable, and RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Health with transparent health care to New Jer- nearly 3,000 providers and clinical staff. seyans and their families. “RWJBarn- Through Ostrowsky’s leadership, RWJBarn- abas Health is committed to ensur- abas Health has expanded and strengthened its ing that health care is not only of the efforts to address equity and systemic racism and highest quality, but also more afford- promote an antiracist culture throughout the or- able for all,” Ostrowsky said. ganization and the communities it serves through Ostrowksy has also raised its Ending Racism Together initiative, which is RWJBarnabas’ public profile focused on creating racial, ethnic and cultural through partnerships with a variety of promi- new training facility,to a Rutgers fan web site. “I equity by prioritizing communities that are most nent institutions and organizations. One of those have to credit all the Rutgers folks who contrib- disenfranchised and experience poor health, and partnerships is with Rutgers University sports. uted to the RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Perfor- social, economic and educational outcomes due Athletic Director Pat Hobbs and men’s basketball mance Center,” Hobbs said. “I spoke with Barry to the generational effects of racism. head coach Steve Pikiell recently described the Ostrowsky earlier … I thanked him. ‘We don’t get In March 2021 Ostrowski was named to the importance of that backing, which helped build a here without you.’”

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BRIAN GRAGNOLATI

s president and CEO of Atlantic Health System and a recognized voice in the Anational health care conversation, Gragnolati is one of the most influential executives in the state. Atlantic’s Morristown Medical Center made U.S. News & World Report’s 2020-21 Best Hospitals list for the third consecutive year. The facility was the only one from New Jersey to rank nationally. Gragnolati has used his influence to become one of the faces of New Jersey’s 7 response to the pandemic, with regular media appearances during which he speaks calmly and authoritatively about the latest developments and what the future might hold. And Atlantic Health operates the Morris County COVID-19 vaccination mega-site. An interview with NJBIZ as the second wave took hold last fall was a good example of Gragnolati’s approach. “The increase has been particularly concerning … where we have seen in some instances between seven and 10% increases per day and those numbers are consistent with what you see in the state,” he said. At the same time “our modeling shows us that we’re not going to hit the levels that we hit back in April, in terms of hospitalizations and that’s because of, one, better access to testing that we have, and two, we’ve got kind of a different cohort of patients that we are seeing get the virus.” In fact, despite alarm over how the second wave would play out, Gragnolati saw the future clearly. As the second wave slows, his views seem prescient.

ROBERT JOHNSON ohnson’s impressive resumé starts on line one: he’s qualified yes,” he said in an article on Rutgers’ web site Jthe dean of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in about getting vaccinated. “Advanced age also is not a Newark and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School factor.” A septuagenarian himself, Johnson said he had in New Brunswick, and is the first person to simultane- no side effects other than injection site tenderness. ously lead two medical schools, according to the Amer- Johnson is also professor of Pediatrics and Director ican Association of Medical Colleges. of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medi- Johnson’s also a practicing physician working in cine. In his research, Johnson focuses on adolescent 8 Newark, putting him on the front lines of the COVID-19 physical and mental health, adolescent HIV, adolescent pandemic. Patients these days come to ask him if they violence, adolescent sexuality, health equity and family can and should get a vaccine, and “the answer is an un- strengthening.

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STEVE RUSCKOWSKI s chairman, CEO and president of vestors that some of the recent COVID-19 AQuest Diagnostics, the world’s larg- and base business testing trends as well as est provider of diagnostic information initiatives underway the company is plan- services, Rusckowski is in charge of the ning to accelerate its growth include taking Secaucus-based lab’s nearly 50,000 em- advantage of expanded access to 90% of ployees who he says “responded as heroes commercially insured lives across the U.S.; to the COVID-19 pandemic” by developing strengthening the company's relationships 9 COVID-19 tests, building test capacity, in- with hospital health systems; increas- novating new testing models with its retail ing market share in advanced diagnostics partners, transporting specimens, deliver- through innovation; building on the coming results and, of course, supporting its pany's growth in consumer testing; and customers. supporting return to work, school and life Ruskowski has also overseen the de- activities with COVID-19 testing. velopment of Quest's new and most highly Before leading Quest, Rusckowski was automated laboratory in its network that CEO of Philips Healthcare, the largest unit went live in January. The Clifton space will of Royal Philips Electronics. During his he became CEO. Before joining Philips, consolidate volumes from its Teterboro, time with Philips, revenues increased from Rusckowski held numerous management Baltimore, and Philadelphia labs over the approximately 6 billion euros in 2005 to positions with the health care division of course of 2021. approximately 9 billion euros in 2011, ac- Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies. He Rusckowski said at a March 11 virtual counting for approximately 39% of Philips joined Philips when it acquired Agilent’s Investor Day meeting with analysts and in- consolidated revenues, from 21% when Healthcare Solutions Group in 2001.

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CATHLEEN BENNETT ince 2017, Bennett has served as CEO of New Jersey Hos- Spital Association, the nonprofit trade group representing New Jersey’s hospitals, health systems and other health care providers. In the role, she oversees the Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey, a not-for-profit affiliate that promotes continuing education, patient safety, quality improvement and research; and the for-profit Healthcare Busi- 10 ness Solutions, which provides group purchasing and other business solutions for health care providers. She has led the NJHA into broader areas such as social determinants of health -- an issue that became even more sa- lient during the pandemic -- pursuing the goal of improving the health of the state’s residents. Before taking her position at NJHA, Bennett served as New Jersey’s 20th Health Commis- sioner, beginning Aug. 3, 2015. She knows the hospital business inside and out – a strong resumé at a critical time for the sector. Bennett’s combined experience with health care providers and public health has been invaluable in leading the state’s provider community during the COVID-19 public health emergency. She has been a force in supporting NJHA’s membership in critical areas such as infection prevention and safety protocols, surge planning, ensuring safe return of elective procedures and vaccination.

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JOSEPH JEFF quest for Applications are imminent. And Ruck, took on new responsibility in 2020 finally, Brown’s CRC is fully appointed, with when the center stepped up as the state’s CO- BARONE BROWN the appointment of National Action Network VID hotline, fielding an additional 1,000-plus arone has been with the Ernest Ma- he medical cannabis program has grown representative Charles Barker on March 24. calls around the clock, every day. Both hot- Brio School of Tto more than lines are invaluable resources to New Jersey Pharmacy at Rut- 90,000 patients un- residents and health care professionals. More gers University for der Brown’s guid- DIANECALELLO often than not, those on the other end help more than three ance, starting from callers resolve their issues without a hospital decades, spending a mere 13,000 when & BRUCE RUCK visit. But when an issue calls for emergency 24 years as chair of he took post as as- attention, the PCC engages the emergency the Department of sistant commis- personnel and the hospital and follows up. Pharmacy Practice sioner three years WebMD could never match that. and Administra- ago. Soon enough, tion before becoming interim dean and alongside the Cannabis Regulatory Commis- ultimately taking the dean role in 2011 sion for which he’ll serve as executive direc- JOHN and 2013, respectively. Barone serves on tor, Brown will craft the rules of engagement the Health Planning Board, which acts as for adult-use cannabis. To add a recreational CHIMINSKI an advisory panel to the health commis- program to a medicinal program is no small himinski has been the chairman and sioner concerning recommendations on task: Marijuana Business Daily projects the octors, nurses, and toxicologists at the CCEO of Somer- certificate of need applications to create state’s adult use market will exceed $1 bil- DNew Jersey Poison Control Center at set-based Catalent new health care facilities or to expand lion. After months of no movement in both Rutgers New Jersey Medical School field some Inc. since 2009. He’s existing service. In 1984, he founded the the medical and adult-use cannabis spac- 200 poison-control calls a day, and they’re not no stranger to the Rutgers Pharmaceutical Industry Fellow- es—on the medical side, multiple lawsuits all from concerned parents. Their hotline is NJBIZ Power lists, ship Program, which has graduated 1,000- stalled the Department of Health’s abilities available day and night for requests from “will having been named plus post-doctoral fellows and recently to issue licenses; and on the adult use side, my allergy medication interact poorly with my to the 2020 Manu- expanded to include physician post-docs the legislature took more than 100 days to mood stabilizer?” to “A spider bit me, how do I facturing Power 50. who will train with the pharmacy post- pass enabling legislation after New Jerseyans know if it was poisonous?” Unlike your doctor, In June, the compa- docs. This program is the only one of its voted to legalize in November -- the pace of though, they pick up the phone when you call; ny agreed to collaborate with AstraZeneca on kind in the country and attracts trainees developments is beginning to quicken. Sev- and no one makes money off of your inquiry. production of the U.K. pharmaceutical mak- from all over the country to train and ulti- eral new alternative treatment centers have The PCC, led by Executive Medical Director er’s COVID-19 vaccine. Ten days later, Catal- mately stay in New Jersey. opened recently. Awards from the 2019 Re- Diane Calello and Managing Director Bruce ent announced a similar arrangement with

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Moderna, which also developed a safe, effec- New Jersey affected by health policies, leg- last May that many avoidable health issues has served a variety of executive positions tive vaccine. Major pharmaceutical collabo- islative and regulatory matters, health care arose for patients who delayed or never within Saint Peter’s University Hospital, rations amid the pandemic are becoming par quality improvement and public health is- sought care. Founded in 1766, Medical So- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for the course in New Jersey. Johnson & John- sues. This advocacy has been especially im- ciety is the oldest professional society in the and the American Cancer Society’s New son struck a deal with its competitor, drug- portant during a pandemic that shut down United States, and publishes two journals: Jersey Division. The input of Downs and maker Merck, to manufacture more doses of elective procedures for several months last Journal of the Medical Society of New Jer- MSNJ President Dr. Philip Kline has been the J&J vaccine, potentially doubling the sup- spring and led to a surge of hesitancy from sey and the Transactions of the Medical critical for a variety of health care issues plies of the one-dose shot. Catalent is a global COVID-anxious patients in getting critical Society of New Jersey. Downs is currently and how they are likely to play out in the provider of advanced delivery technologies, medical care. And that’s a problem, ac- executive director of the Institute of Medi- public and private sector as the state charts development and manufacturing solutions cording to the MSNJ, which told lawmakers cine and Public Health of New Jersey, and a post-pandemic economic recovery. for drugs, biologics, cell and gene therapies, and consumer health products. As such, it is in a position to play a crucial role in helping the rollout of vaccine doses around the world.

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avis, chief corporate affairs officer at DRWJBarnabas Health and a promi- John Bolich, SVP nent voice for the sprawling hospital system, 973.656.2441 served as chief policy counsel to former Gov. Jon Corzine, and has used that experience to work with elected officials on critical health care issues. She was the first woman and person of color to serve as executive vice president at the former Saint Barnabas Health Care System and runs social-determinants COMMERCIAL program for the system, working with community leaders to improve the social condi- LENDING tions around the state to enhance the health of residents. Those issues assumed added prominence during the COVID-19 pan- C OMMITMENT YOU CAN COUNT ON . SM demic, during which people of color bore the brunt of fatalities and cases and had the hard- est time obtaining a COVID-19 vaccine either through roadblocks or sheer skepticism.

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ANDY JOHN SUSAN KENNETHFRAZIER ECKERT FANBURG FEENEY &ROBERTDAVIS ckert, the CEO of Zelis, is a proven leader hen one of the state’s major hos- eeney is a leading attorney statewide Eacross multiple Wpital sys- Frepresenting sectors of health tems acquired hospitals and oth- care, including another facility er health care fa- Medical Devices, IT in 2020, execu- cilities in property and services. A 30- tives called on tax disputes. Her year veteran of the John Fanburg for work has helped health care tech- counsel. With create a New Jer- nology industry, three decades of sey property taxa- Eckert has focused health and hos- tion landscape erck CEO Kenneth Frazier will retire on enabling health care innovation and pital law under his belt, he’s an obvious that allows hospitals, health care sys- Mand will be succeeded by Chief Fi- leading teams to their full potential. Dur- choice; and his client list is long and tems and other entities to operate cost- nancial Officer Robert Davis later this year. ing his career, he has served as CEO of some noteworthy. He’s represented many of effectively and efficiently. Her successful But Frazier, 66 will continue to serve on of the health care industry’s most notable the state’s largest medical groups -- the work on Morristown Medical Center’s Merck’s board as executive chairman “for health care technology companies, includ- New Jersey Obstetrical & Gynecological property tax dispute transformed how a transition period to be determined by the ing TriZetto, Eclipsys, and Valence Health. Society, the New Jersey Association of New Jersey not for profit hospitals were board,” the company said. He is one of the In each case, Eckert helped deliver client Ambulatory Surgery Center, New Jer- taxed. Feeney was instrumental in ne- few Black corporate leaders in the United success, product and technology innovation sey Orthopedic Society, to name a few gotiating settlements on behalf of many States, and his departure in June will leave and strong growth. Right before joining Zelis, -- with ongoing representation of seven. hospital groups whose tax exemptions only three Black CEOs at Fortune 500 com- Eckert was the CEO of Acelity, a global ad- In 2020, he handled four major private were challenged, and her work resulted panies. Davis, now chief financial officer, vanced wound care company that was sold equity deals representing four different in case law that prevented municipali- will become Merck’s president April 1 and to 3M in October 2019. Earlier in his career, kinds of practices: pediatrics, perinatal ties from levying omitted assessments assume the role of CEO on July 1. He joined Eckert served as CEO of CRC Health Group, a medicine, ophthalmology, and a lapa- against previously exempt hospital prop- the company as CFO in 2014 and was leading behavioral health provider owned by roscopic bariatric surgery practice. At erties. The effects of her work in this area named to his expanded role in 2016. Before Bain Capital, and SumTotal Systems, a lead- Brach Eichler in Roseland, where he is extend beyond the courts, as she helped Merck, Davis worked for Baxter Interna- ing education technology software company. managing member, he also chairs its write recently-enacted legislation that tional Inc., where he served as corporate Eckert serves on the Board of Directors of BD, health care law group and co-chair of clarified the exempt status of a not for vice president and president of medical and as chairman of Varian Medical Systems. its cannabis practice. profit hospital entity. products. He held several other positions

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24 March 29, 2021 NJBIZ www.njbiz.com POWER 50 during his tenure at Baxter including DR. ANDRE oversees cancer care across the health net- in the nation approved by the National Can- president of its renal business, chief finan- work. He has served as chairman and execu- cer Institute. He is also a professor of medi- cial officer and treasurer. Before joining GOY tive director of John Theurer Cancer Center cine at Georgetown University and professor Baxter in 2004, Davis worked at Eli Lilly amed physi- at Hackensack University Medical Center and chair of oncology at Seton Hall–Hacken- & Co., where he held numerous positions Ncian-in-chief since 2011 and chair of oncology for Hacken- sack Meridian School of Medicine. Goy has of increasing responsibility over 14 years. of Hackensack Me- sack Meridian Health since 2016. Under his trained or worked at leading medical insti- Davis serves on the board of directors for ridian Health On- leadership, the John Theurer Cancer Center tutions including Memorial Sloan Kettering Duke Energy Corporation and is a mem- cology98817_FE_PubSfty_AD_NJB Care Trans- became (NJ Biz) a member of the Georgetown Lom- Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Cancer Cen- ber of its audit, compensation and finance formation Service bardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Con- ter, University Hospitals Group of Paris, and T: 7.5” x 10” B: NA L: NA committees. Merck will play a critical role in June 2020, Goy sortium—one of only 16 research consortia The Pasteur Institute in Paris. in helping to control COVID-19 through a partnership Johnson & Johnson to help produce its New Brunswick-based rival’s one-dose vaccine.

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eller is president and CEO of Engle- Gwood Health, the health system comprising Englewood Hospital, the Englewood Health Physician Network, and the Englewood Health Foundation. Under his leadership, the organization has transformed from a community hospital into a leading tertiary health system. Since Geller joined Englewood Health in 911. 2009, the system has increased patient call volume and acuity and improved financial performance along with enhanced quality and safety outcomes, resulting in the designation as a Top Hospital for patient safety by the Leapfrog Group in 2014, 2015, and 2019. This past year, En- glewood Health was named a “Pandemic Hero of the Year” by an independent national watchdog organization for its ac- tions during the initial surge of the pandemic. In March 2021, Geller joined more than 1,600 CEOs from across the country who signed the CEO Action for Diver- sity & Inclusion pledge. With the pledge, Englewood Health leadership agrees to provide equal access to vaccines, helping to mitigate risk factors for those most vulnerable to COVID-19; enhance and expand training programs for new and current employees, focus on diversity and inclusion; and to continue on the path to diminishing healthcare disparities with ﬁ rstenergycorp.com/PublicSafety the support of the Diversity and Inclusion Education Council (DIEC).

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JOHN DEBBIE ease that we didn’t even know existed just to attain status as a Magnet designated hospi- a couple of months ago,” Hart told NJBIZ in tal and has been redesignated three times. GRIBBIN HART 2020. “They’ve done all they could to make ARMC’s Atlantic City Campus earned the Joint ribbin is the president and chief ex- a difference. And there’s more to come, but Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval and the Gecutive offi- we’ve made lots of progress already.” American Heart Association/American Stroke cer of CentraState Association’s Heart-Check mark for Advanced Healthcare System, Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Cen- having worked his LORI ters in 2017 with redesignation in 2019. Also way up from sev- in 2019, Herndon led ARMC in earning the eral executive po- HERNDON Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for sitions in health s president and CEO of AtlantiCare, Hern- advanced certification for Inpatient Diabetes systems across the Adon is respon- Care. Herndon joined AtlantiCare in 1983 as state over the past sible for the health a staff nurse in critical care. She has served in decades. CentraState is in the midst of system’s strategic executive roles for the system since 2007. an acquisition by Morristown-based At- growth, operations lantic Health System, which is seeking and development. a majority share of the health care net- She leads more than LESLIE work with plans to invest in upgrades 6,000 staff, provid- and expanded services. Executives at art is the founding president and CEO ers and volunteers, HIRSCH CentraState and Atlantic Health say the Hof BioNJ, the 400-member trade as- who serve the com- seasoned healthcare executive whose combinaiton would give physicians in sociation for research-based life sciences munity in five southern New Jersey counties. Acareer spans the former access to the latter’s more companies in New Jersey. Given the size of AtlantiCare, based in Egg Harbor Township, forty years, Hirsch extensive network. Based in Freehold, the industry it would be hard to overstate comprises AtlantiCare Regional Health Ser- serves as president CentraState boasts a 284-bed hospital, its importance to the state’s economy. And vices including AtlantiCare Regional Medical and CEO of Saint and was among the last independent with the outbreak of COVID-19, BioNJ’s Center (ARMC) with three locations -- in At- Peter’s Healthcare hospitals in the Jersey Shore region. members were thrust to the forefront of the lantic City, Pomona and Hammonton -- other System in New The hospital under Gribbin’s watch effort to contain a vast public health emer- ambulatory care services, and AtlantiCare Brunswick, one of fought to become a tier-one provider gency. By most accounts, including Hart’s Physician Group; the AtlantiCare Foundation, the few remaining with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of -- perhaps not surprisingly -- the companies and AtlantiCare Health Solutions, an account- Catholic hospitals New Jersey OMNIA plan after previous- have acquitted themselves well. “The indus- able care organization. Under her leadership, in the state. Before joining Saint Peter’s in ly being left out. try has really stepped up to address a dis- ARMC became the 105th hospital in the nation 2015, Hirsch served for seven years as presi- POSITIONING YOUR COMPANY IN A POST COVID ENVIRONMENT Keeping Workplaces & Schools Safe During COVID & Beyond

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dent and CEO of Saint Clare’s Health System community organizations and programs in in Denville. And he’s spent decades as a hos- the United States that address health inequi- pital executive across the nation, including at ties, with a focus on diversity in clinical trials. the Cooper Health System in Camden dur- “And we’ve made donations to hospitals in the ing the 1990’s. Saint Peter’s - a 478-bed acute state of New Jersey,” he told NJBIZ last year, at MIDDLESEX COUNTY NJ care teaching hospital and children’s hospi- the height of the first wave. “We supplied the tal, and a major institution in the city of New state of New Jersey PPEs—a thousand masks, Brunswick - is in the midst of a merger with 10,000 pairs of gloves, 10,000 caps, 1,200 RWJBarnabas Health. The pair announced gowns and coveralls. Our PPE is supplied by the deal in September 2020, intending for donations to New Jersey and to other states Saint Peter’s to retain its identity as a Catholic where requests have been made.” health care institution. PHILIP GARY KLINE HORAN line was tapped as the MSNJ’s 228th oran has served as president and chief Kpresident in Hexecutive June last year, at a officer of Trinitas time when the state Regional Medical was in a lull of the Center and its par- pandemic. As the ent organization, top official at the Trinitas Health, largest organiza- since 2001. He tion of physicians boasts extensive in the state, Kline experience among is in charge of an agency that works for thou- hospitals both in New Jersey and New York, sands of doctors on legislative and regulatory and sits on the board of the New Jersey Hos- matters, health care quality improvement and pital Association. Trinitas - a 554 acute-care public health matters. That was especially rel- HIGH QUALITY hospital in Union County - is in the midst evant during a pandemic which shut down of a merger with RWJBarnabas. Under their elective procedures for several months last agreement, Trinitas said it will retain its iden- spring, and led to a surge of hesitancy from pa- WORKFORCE. tity as a Catholic health care institution, while tients in getting critical medical care. “Health- getting major upgrades from RWJBarnabas, care as we know it will be forever changed by especially in its outpatient facilities. That the COVID-19 pandemic,” Kline said last June. HIGH QUALITY leaves few independent hospitals in the state, “As we look toward the immediate future, as across the nation smaller health networks physician practices, hospital systems and all get eaten up by larger hospital systems. medical practices must evolve.” OF LIFE. Find all your business needs in THOMAS SCOTT Middlesex County, New Jersey. KENDRIS KOBLER Learn how a deep commitment from ike his peers at other top drugmakers, obler has been an integral player in local government and the community has LKendris was KNew Jersey’s created the perfect ecosystem where forced to battle the health care M&A businesses and residents can thrive. pandemic in two and financing ways. First he had to world for nearly keep his company four decades. -- he is the CEO of “He’s the Obi Novartis Corp. in Wan Kenobe of East Hanvoer -- op- health care deals,” erating safely at a said a person in high level. Second, he had to make sure his the know. “He’s the one everyone goes staff continued the work of actually finding to when the question isn’t easily solved.” treatments for COVID-19. Novartis is a major Most of New Jersey’s health care M&A producer of hydroxychloroquine, which early activity and the development of hospi- MIDDLESEX COUNTY NJ in the pandemic was thought to be effective in tals and other health care facilities goes minimizing the symptoms. Novartis donated through Kobler. A partner at McCarter & 130 million doses of the drug to a range of in- English in Newark, he’s had his hands in stitutions. On his watch the company has also some of the state’s most complex health become activity in philanthropy,cCreating a care transactions. Kobler was honored $20 million global fund to support commu- in August with the NJBIZ ICON award in nities affected by the pandemic. In addition, recognition for the importance of his work DiscoverMiddlesex.com/Biz the Novartis U.S. Foundation committed $25 not just for McCarter, but for the state’s million to develop partnerships and fund larger business community. www.njbiz.com NJBIZ March 29, 2021 27 POWER 50

JEFFREY STEVEN ment, shared resource development, and cancer research to help scientists better understand the LE BENGER LIBUTTI human immune response to cancer and ultimately e Benger, chief executive officer of the rapidly make existing therapies more effective. Lexpanding and newly rebranded Summit Health, one of the nation’s premier AMY physician-governed multi- specialty medical groups. MANSUE The first integrated deliv- ansue took over as Inspira Health’s CEO in ery-of-care network of its MSeptember, succeed- kind, the combined organi- ing longtime chief John zation has more than 1,600 DiAngelo. Mansue was providers, 6,400 employees and 200 locations in previously RWJBarnabas’ New Jersey and New York. Summit Health handles chief experience officer for more than 4.6 million patient visits annually, with four years, and before that a vision to provide patients an exceptional, seam- had held various positions less experience across a full spectrum of high-qual- within the health care and ity primary, specialty, and urgent care. And he’s no ibutti is the director of the Rutgers Cancer Insti- health insurance industries slowing down. “We are going to create a health care Ltute of New Jersey and vice chancellor for Cancer in New Jersey and New York for nearly three de- delivery model in the New York metropolitan area Programs at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, cades. Mansue’s biweekly video updates on Inspi- that is nowhere else in the country,” LeBenger said in positions he took four years ago. ra’s Facebook page feel like intimate updates from a an interview last year. “We take care of almost 800,000 The institute is building a new cancer pavilion friend, one who tells you to get your vaccine and get unique patients a year, we run between the entire in New Brunswick that will become a one stop shop a mammogram. And one who shares touching and company 6 million visits a year. We expect to put on for cancer patients, bringing laboratory services, compelling stories, like of hospital volunteer Tom- major hubs in the New York metropolitan area. Long an outpatient clinic, infusion/chemotherapy suite, my Messner, who colleagues crowdfunded a bike for Island, as well as Westchester County. We’re going to radiation oncology, imaging, and international ra- so he could arrive to his volunteer shifts comfort- continue to grow.” In March, Le Benger told NBJIZ diology all under one roof. The Cancer Institute ably and in style, and Dr. William King, believed to that Summit is also trying to help the state expand its received an anonymous $25 million donation in be the first Black doctors to join the medical staff at COVID-19 vaccination program with a footprint ca- December to support its Cancer Immunology and Underwood-Memorial (now Inspira Health Center) pable of delivering 2,000 shots a day. Metabolism Center of Excellence in faculty recruit- in Woodbury in 1968.

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PAUL and converting it, taking a regular med alk to a surge bed and converting it to critical MARDEN care. This was going into our large audi- aul Marden is chief executive officer torium and building from scratch.” And Pof United- Maron apparently deserves a good deal neighbor when Healthcare, New of the credit for that response. “Both Jersey, owning Maron and the hospital got through the P&L for all it and came out better and stronger commercial prod- with an enhanced effort for managing you need a ucts with a focus through a crisis,” said one person fa- on sustainable miliar with the efforts. growth in the New Jersey market. He bsiness on oversees UnitedHeatlhcare’s reputation in the community, as well as his team’s rela- ANTHONY tionships with customers, brokers, regula- MAZZARELLI C COD OA tory and legislative bodies. He serves as a board member for the NJ Chamber of Com- & KEVINO’DOWD merce, the Commerce & Industry Associa- tion of New Jersey as well as Catholic Chari- ties of the Archdiocese of Newark. Marden 20 MIION 12 MIION is a regular speaker on health care, business OWNE OCCPIED leadership and health insurance. ACISITION OAN COMMECIA MOTGAGE INDUSTRIAL BUILDING MANUFACTURER MICHAEL MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ PASSAIC COUNTY, NJ

MARON azzarelli and O’Dowd are the co- Mleaders of Cooper University Health Care in Camden. After serving as chief of staff to Gov. Chris Christie, O’Dowd took . MIION 3. MIION over as co-president/CEO of Cooper Uni- MOTGAGE EA ESTATE, versity Health Care in 2018. Under his EFINANCE INE OF CEDIT leadership, the Camden medical center COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EIPMENT OAN has shown increases in patients and rev- MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ PHARMACEUTICAL enues. And that role became even more MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ critical with the onset of the pandemic. His reputation for competence put him at the center of the response in his part of the state. “Phil Murphy leans heav- ily on O’Dowd as the COVID operations 2 MIION 1.3 MIION guy in Southern New Jersey,” one insider INE OF INE OF CEDIT said. “And that takes [courage] for Mur- CEDIT COMMECIA MOTGAGE phy because he worked for the predeces- NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION MEDICAL PRACTICE sor administration. That speaks volumes UNION COUNTY, NJ MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ s the CEO of Holy Name Medical about what Murphy thinks about Kevin ACenter in Teaneck, Maron bore the O’Dowd.” Mazzarelli is also the Associate full brunt of the pandemic’s early, most Dean of Clinical Affairs for Cooper Medi- frightening days. The hospital was at cal School of Rowan University. Previ- the center of the first serious outbreak ously, Mazzarelli served as Cooper’s chief in the state, and it seemed then as physician executive where he oversaw the though the health care system could physician practice, as well as quality/pa- be overwhelmed. That perception only tient safety, and continuous process im- deepened when Maron himself con- provement efforts for the health system, tracted COVID-19. He recovered and the same topics for which he teaches Holy Name mustered a strong response within the medical school and residency ri rsen ndrew esci to the virus. “I couldn’t be prouder of programs. Together O’Dowd and Mazza- enior ice resident enior ice resident astern eam ead estern eam ead the staff, the commitment, the innova- relli were instrumental in educating their Commercial ending Commercial ending tion that occurred here,” Maron said in community about the effectiveness and 33 36325 x67 33 36325 x6 a late summer interview with NJBIZ. safety of the available COVID-19 vaccines. “What no other organization in New “Our team of doctors and educators will

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SCOTT and an alum of the United State’s Attorney’s TAMMY Office, where he spent more than a decade MCBRIDE with time served as deputy chief of the eco- MURPHY nomic crimes unit and as a member of the ven before the pan- health care and government fraud unit. Edemic, Murphy did not shrink from her role as New Jersey’s First Lady. She has AUDREY used her public stature to focus on issues of women’s and MEYERS maternal health, infant mor- eyers joined Valley Hospital in 1980 tality affecting communities Mand was named of color, environmental jus- president and CEO in tice and climate change. But 1999 and assumed that COVID-19 raised even more role for Valley Health dangerous challenges. Mur- System in 2003. She phy responded, in part, by is one of the longest- helping to create and promote the New resources to do so and there’s a need serving CEOs in the Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund, bring- for us. Which means we definitely need state. In addition to ing together prominent New Jerseyans our corporate partners to step up very breaking ground on a and an effort to provide financial sup- much so over the coming months.” new hospital campus in Paramus to be com- port for struggling communities. And Murphy has her work cut out for her. pleted by 2023, in 2019 Meyers also oversaw those challenges are persisting beyond The pandemic in recent months has the opening of Women’s & Children’s Primary what she expected. “It’s obvious that laid bare the difficulty that lower-in- ith a specialty in white collar criminal Care Center in Montvale; the launch of a new this pandemic and the implications come, typically minority-communities Wdefense and a reputation as an expert service, Dispatch Health, which brings urgent for the economy and more are going have in getting the COVID-19 vaccine in health care fraud, McBride represents care to a patient’s home and the opening of a to be with us for a long time,” Murphy vital to restoring pre-pandemic life. pharmaceutical and medical device compa- new Wellness and Walk-In Care Center in West- told NJBIZ last summer. “And while we And many African Americans and His- nies in internal investigations, Department field Garden State Plaza in Paramus. Her career had originally anticipated that the fund panics are outright hesitant to get the of Justice investigations and legal disputes in accomplishments include strategic affiliations would wrap up by Christmas time or vaccine, backed by generations of gov- New Jersey and elsewhere. He’s a sought-af- with the Mount Sinai Health System and the thereabouts it’s pretty clear now that ernment health officials disregarding ter speaker and panelist on health care fraud Cleveland Clinic. we will carry on as long as we have the their interests.

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DEAN PARANICAS s president and chief executive officer of the HealthCare Institute of New AJersey, Paranicas oversees the trade association for the leading research-based biopharmaceutical and medical technology companies in New Jersey. HINJ works to ensure life sciences companies have a supportive innovation ecosystem to discover and develop new cures and treatments, patients have access to the medicines they need, and that New Jersey remains a global life sciences hub with all of the attendant economic and quality of life benefits. Along with BioNJ chief Debbie Hart, Paranicas leads an organization of companies critical to the nation’s pandemic response. “Both the biopharma companies and the medical technology companies, they’re on the ground, they’ve been at this hard,” Paranicas told NJBIZ during the height of the outbreak. “They’ve been at this from the beginning. They never close. They kept on working through, developing diagnostic tests and working on therapies and, of course, working on a vaccine.”

DONALD PARKER arker is president and chief Phospital executive of Hack- ensack Meridian Health Carrier Clinic and president of Hacken- sack Meridian Health Behavioral Health Care Transformation Services/Integrative Medicine. When the Carrier Clinic, the largest nonprofit behavioral health system in New Jersey, merged with Hackensack Meridian, Park- er said the deal would “create exceptional, comprehensive care at a time of great need for expanded, enhanced, and innovative behavioral health services.” HMH has since launched the country’s first-ever medically integrated urgent care center with behavioral health services. And they’re in the process of opening up an inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment center in Mahwah.

TOM POLEN ranklin Lakes-based BD, one of the largest global medical technology companies in Fthe world, works to advance the quality of health care by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the safe delivery of care. Led by Polen as president and CEO, BD is now one of the many New Jersey companies leading the global efforts to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Polen met early on in the pandemic with President Donald Trump, administration officials and other business leaders who have been involved in the effort to expand access to COVID-19 testing and test development, stating the company’s support of the U.S. effort to combat coronavirus. “[W]e are working around the clock internally and with external partners to increase the coronavirus diagnostic capacity in the U.S by ramping up production of our sample collection tools and increasing access to our automated molecular platform for in vitro diagnostics,” Polen said at the time. BD recently received $24 million from the federal government to scale up U.S. manufacturing production of its COVID-19 rapid diagnosis testing kits. In November BD received an order from the Dutch Ministry of Health for 9.2 million of its rapid COVID-19 tests for use on the BD Veritor Plus System, and recently announced plans to invest approximately $1.2 billion over a four-year period to expand and upgrade manufacturing capacity and technology for pre-fillable syringes and advanced drug delivery systems across its six global manufacturing locations and add a new manufacturing facility in Europe. www.njbiz.com NJBIZ March 29, 2021 31 POWER 50

WARDELL KEVIN GARY SANDERS SLAVIN ST. HILAIRE lavin serves as president and chief executive officer at t. Hilaire is the CEO at Horizon BCBSNJ, the larg- SSt. Joseph’s Health, an inte- Sest health insurer in the grated multi-hospital major aca- state, following the retirement demic healthcare system based of his predecessor Kevin Con- in Paterson. He is responsible for lin. Over the past year, Hori- the overall strategic, clinical, aca- zon launched a $5.5 million demic and operational functions lobbying and public relations of St. Joseph’s Health, which en- blitz to successfully push compasses St. Joseph’s University through legislation allowing Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Chil- the company to overhaul its dren’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center, St. Jo- corporate structure and invest in its for-profit sub- seph’s Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Visiting Health sidiaries. The health insurer contends the move was Services of NJ and numerous ambulatory and physician sites vital for Horizon to implement upgrades and diver- throughout northern North Jersey. Under Slavin’s guidance, sify its business operations. A major employer in the St. Joseph’s University Medical Center was the first in the state with $13 billion in annual revenues, Horizon in- s president of the New Jersey Association of Health United States to launch an Alternatives to Opioids Program sures or administers health coverage for 3.5 million APlans for 15 years, Sanders is an expert on health care (ALTO), a successful and unique approach to acute pain New Jerseyans and holds major contractors for many policy. Before leading the NJAHP, he worked in Trenton management without the use of opioids. The Alternatives state workers. In September, Horizon announced directing the two agencies regulating the individual and to Opioids in Emergency Departments Act -- which is based along with RWJBarnabas Health and Hackensack small group health benefits markets, the New Jersey Indi- on the St. Joseph’s program -- was signed into law in October Meridian Health that the partners were forming a vidual Health Coverage Program Board and the New Jer- 2018, expanding its use to hospitals across the nation. Slavin new Medicare Advantage plan called Braven Health, sey Small Employer Health Benefits Program Board. All in, was the 2020 Chairman of the New Jersey Hospital Associa- which will serve residents in eight of the state’s 21 the two agencies cover a million New Jerseyans. In March, tion Board of Trustees, a Member of the American College counties. BeforeHorizon, St. Hilaire spent years as Gov. Murphy named Sanders was named to the Health of Healthcare Executives, a Trustee and Past Chairman of president of CEO at capital Blue Cross, a health in- Care Affordability Advisory Group, which will advise the the Hospital Alliance of New Jersey, inaugural Chair of the surance company based in the Pennsylvania state Health Care Affordability Interagency Workgroup chaired Healthcare Coalition of Passaic County and has held a vari- capital; an executive at Blue cross Blue Shield of by Shabnam Salih on the development and implementa- ety of legislative appointments to healthcare boards, com- Massachusetts; and co-founder and the chief finan- tion of health care cost growth benchmarks. missions and task forces. cial officer for a health care technology company.

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MARCO the first investigational antifungal agent with reported tion are racing to vaccinate as many people as possible clinical data in patients in hospital settings with C. au- in order to create a brick wall that would keep the virus TAGLIETTI ris infections: out of 74 patients, 64 saw clinical benefits from once again spreading, commonly referred to as from Ibrexafungerp and 46 patients saw a complete or herd immunity. Figures like Tan and Lifshitz will have partial response. In 18 others, the disease stabilized. the numbers and figures to gauge whether that’s working, and if the state many need to adjust course. CHRISTINA TAN MICHAEL TARDUGNO ardugno relocated biopharma company Celsion TCorp. to Lawrenceville from Maryland a decade ago. At the time, he was looking to develop and commercial- ize life-saving chemotherapy and immunotherapy agents and needed to recruit top talent. Two years ago, Celsion— hree in four women will get a vaginal yeast infec- where Tardugno serves as Ttion in their life, so why haven’t pharma compa- ike Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, Tan is president and CEO — received $10.6 million via the nies focused on addressing it? Taglietti is the CEO of La frequent figure at the Gov. Phil Murphy’s regular State’s Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer Scynexis, the Jersey City company developing Ibrexa- briefings on how the state is handling the pandemic. Program from the New Jersey Economic Develop- fungerp which, if approved, will be the first new pill to It’s the data presented by Tan and her colleague Dr. Ed ment Authority and the Department of Treasury’s Di- treat the malady in decades. Interim analyses of the Lifshitz, a communicable disease expert in the depart- vision of Taxation. The company is developing prod- medication, which will also come in IV form, has also ment, that determines what reopenings or business ucts targeting advanced ovarian cancer and earlier shown positive results as a treatment for candida au- closures are justified. At the moment, New Jersey and this applied for a provisional U.S. patent for a novel ris—which unlike vaginal yeast infections, which are many parts of the nation are in the midst of an on- DNA-based, investigational vaccine aimed at pre- just pesky and uncomfortable—is deadly and classified slaught of new variants, particularly one from the U.K., venting or treating infections including COVID-19 us- by the CDC as a public health threat. Ibrexafungerp is driving new cases. Public health officials across the na- ing its Placcine DNA technology platform.

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DEBORAH DENNIS VISCONI WILSON s head of Bergen New ABridge Medical Center ilson took over the top spot at Parsippany-based Delta Den- in Paramus, Visconi over- Wtal of New Jersey – the state’s largest sees one of the nation’s dental insurer, covering 1.6 million people – largest public hospitals. in 2013 after a stint as Mid-Atlantic regional New Bridge has spent years president for national managed care orga- under state scrutiny, fol- nization Coventry Health Care/Aetna. In lowing reports by govern- January, he became chairman of DeltaUSA, ment agencies and media the subsidiary of Delta Dental Plans Asso- outlets about potential ciation that enables Delta Dental to centrally safety lapses. Visconi took administer national or multistate insurance the helm in 2017, when the programs. Delta Dental’s charitable arm awards $1 million in grants beleaguered hospital was each year to dental clinics, hospitals, and health centers that provide moving away from a for- dental care to underserved children, developmentally disabled per- profit management compa- sons, seniors, and veterans. The foundation also provides grants to ny and its prior title of Ber- support dental hygiene and dental assisting scholarships, along with gen Regional Medical Center. Since then, she’s experienced as a family,” she said in a 2017 in- dental education programs for children. Wilson sees dental insur- dramatically ramped up New Bridge’s opioid, terview. “It has always been my life’s mission ance taken on an even greater role in the health care industry after mental health and substance abuse treatment to take care of those communities that don’t the pandemic. Dental benefits, particularly as it’s becoming more services, and veteran’s health care. The hospital have the ways and means to get access that and more clear the connectivity between oral health and systemic has gotten nods for the quality of treatment to other communities have.” In the past year, New medical health – cancers, diabetes coronary artery maladies — are its LGBT patients. And the hospital has forged Bridge was among the first hospitals hit by the becoming so connected,” he recently told NJBIZ. “The body starts at partnerships with other key health care players pandemic as it swept across Bergen County and the oral cavity, if you will, so the realization of that plus the realization across the state, such as the Rutgers New Jersey eventually North Jersey and the rest of the state, that hey everybody likes and deserves a healthy smile ... it’s great to Medical School and the NJ Reentry Corpora- bringing about painful lessons for medicine and have a nice set of teeth to show off. That has not changed. We’re re- tion. “Coming from an underprivileged family, public health. New Bridge has made efforts to ally working on finding ways to cover the 20% of our population that for me, it has always been seeing how we grew broaden access to care, and it serves as a major either has inadequate or no dental benefits at all so that’s a work in up and the lack of access, gaps in care, that we COVID-19 vaccine center in North Jersey. progress for us and we intend to climb that mountain.”

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34 March 29, 2021 NJBIZ www.njbiz.com NEW JERSEY’S TOP NEW JERSEY'S TOP Life Sciences Cos. For full list, visit www.njbiz.com/lists Life Sciences Cos. Ranked by: the number of New Jersey employees Lists Ranked by the number of New Jersey employees By Bethany Wiegand BY BETHANY WIEGAND FOR FULL LIST, VISIT NJBIZ.COM/LISTS

COMPANY WEBSITE ADDRESS CONCENTRATION RANK | PREV. YEAR EST. PHONE | FAX SENIOR EXECUTIVE(S) PRODUCTS/SERVICES N.J. EMPLOYEES 1 | NR Johnson & Johnson One Johnson & Johnson Plaza Alex Gorsky Drugs, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and health care 134,500(1) www.jnj.com New Brunswick, 08933 Health care products 1886 (732) 524-0400 | (732) 524-3564

2 | NR Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Route 206 and Province Line Road Giovanni Caforio NA 10,755 www.bms.com Princeton, 08543 Global biopharmaceutical company 1887 (609) 252-4000 | NA

3 | 1 Merck & Co. Inc.(2) 2000 Galloping Hill Road Kenneth C. Frazier(4) Biotechnology, drugs and pharmaceuticals, research, testing 6,800 www.merck.com Kenilworth(3), 07033 and medical laboratories 1891 (908) 740-4000 | NA A global healthcare company which delivers innovative health solutions through its prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies and animal health products 4 | NR New Jersey Institute of Technology 323 Dr. MLK Jr. Blvd. Joel S. Bloom, Biotechnology 4,322 www.njit.edu Newark, 07102 Fadi Deek New Jersey's science, technology and design university 1881 (973) 596-3000 | (973) 596-1515

5 | NR Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 33 Knightsbridge Road Jonathan Holloway(5) Bioscience distribution, biotechnology, drugs and 4,000 businessportal.rutgers.edu; research.rutgers.edu Piscataway, 08854 pharmaceuticals, medical devices, research, testing and medical 1766 (848) 445-3153 | (732) 445-3180 laboratories Premier public research university 6 | NR Pfizer Inc. 100 Route 206 N. Albert Bourla Drugs and pharmaceuticals 3,255 www.pfizer.com Peapack, 07977 A research-based, global biopharmaceutical company which 1849 (973) 887-2100 | (973) 887-0557 focuses on six therapeutic areas: internal medicine, oncology, hospital, vaccines, inflammation and immunology, and rare disease 7 | NR BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.) 1 Becton Drive Thomas Polen Medical devices, research, testing and medical laboratories 2,552 www.bd.com Franklin Lakes, 07417-1880 Health care and medical technology 1897 (201) 847-6800 | (201) 847-6475

8 | 2 Sanofi 55 Corporate Drive Angela Bechan, Drugs and pharmaceuticals 2,239 www.sanofi.us Bridgewater, 08807 Noel Geoffroy, Lantus, Apidra, Fluzone, Menactra, Jevtana, Zaltrap, Frontline, 2004 (800) 981-2491 | NA Adam Gluck, NexGard, Aubagio, Cerezyme, Cerdelga, Febrazyme, Lemtrada, Carole Huntsman Allegra, Gold Bond, IcyHot, Nasacort and Rolaids 9 | 3 Bausch Health Cos. Inc. 400 Somerset Corporate Blvd. Joseph Papa, Biotechnology, drugs and pharmaceuticals, and medical devices 800 www.bauschhealth.com Bridgewater, 08807 Christina Ackermann, Develops, manufactures and markets a range of pharmaceutical, NA (908) 927-1400 | NA Paul Herendeen medical device and over-the-counter products, primarily in the therapeutic areas of eye health, gastroenterology and dermatology

10 | 4 Ferring Pharmaceuticals 100 Interpace Parkway Brent Ragans Drugs and pharmaceuticals 495 www.ferringusa.com Parsippany, 07054 Innovative products in the fields of reproductive medicine and NA (973) 796-1600 | (973) 796-1660 maternal health, gastroenterology and orthopedics

11 | 5 Cambrex 1 Meadowlands Plaza Thomas Loewald, Drugs and pharmaceuticals 251(6) www.cambrex.com East Rutherford, 07073 Robert Green, Provides products, services and technologies to accelerate the 1981 (201) 804-3000 | (201) 804-9852 Samantha M. Hanley, development and commercialization of small molecule Dorothy Donnelly-Brienza therapeutics 12 | 6 Worthington Biochemical Corp. 730 Vassar Ave. Von Worthington Enzyme/biochemical producer 59 www.worthington-biochem.com Lakewood, 08701-6907 ISO9001 certified primary manufacturer of purified enzymes, 1947 (732) 942-1660 | (732) 942-9270 proteins, nucleic acids and kits for life science research, biotech, biopharma, diagnostic and bioprocessing, primary cell isolation and culture applications 13 | 8 Porzio Life Sciences LLC 100 Southgate Parkway Vito A. Gagliardi Jr., Regulatory, compliance consulting and database solutions 51 porziolifesciences.com Morristown, 07962-1997 John P. Oroho Life science federal, state and global compliance tools, 2004 (973) 538-1690 | (973) 538-5146 transparency, data and customized services on PDMA, anti- kickback statutes, aggregate spend reporting, dispute resolutions, OIG/CMS guidance and OPDP promotional violations 14 | 7 TrialScope(7) 185 Hudson St., Suite 2900 Jeff Kozloff, SaaS for clinical trials 29 www.trialscope.com Jersey City, 07311 Thomas Wicks, TrialScope Disclose, now part of Pharma Intelligence, makes 2012 (877) 658-8310 | NA David Laky, centralizing, structuring and activating clinical trial information Matt Patras simple, for use across the organization and at every stage of the study 15 | NR BioCentriq(8) 211 Warren St. Haro Hartounian Biotechnology and CDMO - processing and manufacturing of 25 www.biocentriq.com Newark, 07103 cell and gene therapies 2019 (973) 596-5800 | NA A cell and gene therapy process development and clinical manufacturing center.; produces autologous and allogeneic cell therapies and gene therapies, and immunotherapies, including monoclonal antibodies and proteins, and vaccines 16 | NR Palatin Technologies Inc. 4B Cedar Brook Drive Carl Spana, Biotechnology 20 www.palatin.com Cranbury, 08512 Stephen T. Wills A specialized biopharmaceutical company which develops first- 1996 (609) 495-2200 | (609) 495-2201 in-class medicines based on molecules that modulate the activity of the melanocortin peptide receptor systems

17 | NR Big Magic Inc. dba SRL Group 211 Warren St. Jose Espinoza, Health tech patient engagement 3 www.srlgroup.co Newark, 07103 David Brooks Multilingual doctor finder, online scheduling, patient online 2019 (888) 874-2018 | NA messaging, reputation management and referral automation

Source: The companies. (1) Approximately 134,500 employees worldwide; requests for NJ-only data were not returned prior to press deadline. (2) In February 2020, Merck & Co. Inc. unveiled plans to spin off products from its women’s health and biosimilars businesses, along with certain legacy brands, into a new independent and publicly traded company. On March 11, 2020, Merck announced that Organon & Co. will be the name of the new company; the company is expected to be based in New Jersey and have 10,000 to 11,000 employees. (3) On April 28, 2020, Merck & Co. announced the company is leaving its Kenilworth headquarters and intends to consolidate its New Jersey campuses into a single location in Rahway. The move is expected to be completed by the end of 2023. (4) On Feb. 4, 2021, Merck & Co. announced Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and CEO, will retire as CEO, effective June 30, 2021. The board elected Robert M. Davis as successor effective July 1, 2021. Davis will become president of Merck, effective April 1, 2021. Frazier will continue as executive chairman. (5) Jonathan Holloway was named as the president of Rutgers University in January 2020 and assumed the position on July 1, 2020. He succeeded former president Robert Barchi who retired on June 30, 2020, when his contract expired. (6) 2020 information; requests for 2021 data were not returned prior to press deadline. (7) TrialScope was acquired by Informa Pharma Intelligence in 2020. (8) Formerly listed as New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII); on Oct. 29, 2020, the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) opened BioCentriq, a cell and gene therapy center. NA: Not Available. NR: Not Ranked. There is no charge to be included in NJBIZ lists. We assume that information provided by representatives is accurate and truthful. We are not responsible for the omission of organizations that do not respond to our requests for information. Information received after press deadline cannot be included. If you wish to be included in future lists visit www.njbiz.com/lists and click on "Complete Survey" or e-mail [email protected]. The list, or any parts of them, cannot be reproduced without written permission from NJBIZ. For more information on NJBIZ, please visit www.njbiz.com.

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