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Adam Margolis Built for 20 Years Before Choosing a Bigger Canvas
He spent two decades making medical education run on detail, trust and a home-grown platform. Then Adam Margolis sold L&M Healthcare Communications and learned how to trade independence for a larger field of play.
The Company That Turned the Dinner Lecture Into a Compliance Machine
L&M built a business around the least glamorous parts of pharmaceutical education - contracts, dinner limits, speaker training, audit trails - then made the machinery valuable enough for Fingerpaint Group to buy it.
The Design Agency That Outgrew the Word Design
For forty years, JK kept adding answers to the same question: how do you make people care? In 2026, its name finally caught up with the work.
The Agency That Tried to Own the Whole Problem
Star Group sold a seductive idea: the best agency should solve more than the ad. For 30 years it kept widening the assignment - until the machinery built for growth met a cash crisis it could not out-create.
Coyne PR Put Its People Before Its Pitch Deck
Tom Coyne built an independent agency around a suspiciously simple equation: look after the people, and the pitches will look after themselves. Thirty-five years and more than 1,000 industry honors later, the equation is meeting its strangest test yet - teaching brands to be understood by machines without sounding like them.
The Agency Built Like a Shock Absorber
Most agencies sell attention. CMA Results also runs associations and stages the rooms where industries meet - a deliberately odd mix that has helped it weather nearly four decades of changing media.
The Small Agency That Learned to Make the Invisible Visible
Impact Consulting Enterprises has spent more than three decades translating institutions into language people can use. Its edge is not volume. It is knowing which details an audience will trust.
Bruce Springsteen Keeps Turning the American Noise Into Three-Minute Truths
For more than fifty years, Springsteen has moved between two rooms: the roaring public square of the E Street Band and the quiet room where one voice, one guitar and a few hard choices are enough.
The Agency That Survived the Press Release
R&J began when a press release still traveled by mail. Forty years and five identities later, the New Jersey agency has learned a useful trick: treat every good story as a system, not a stunt.
The Scientists Had the Breakthrough. TellMed Had to Make Anyone Care.
A New Jersey agency found a business in the awkward distance between a scientific result and a human reaction. Its product is not publicity so much as translation - with enough regulatory discipline to survive the trip.
AKCG Rehearses Your Worst Day
The Glassboro consultancy has spent more than four decades preparing leaders for the phone call they hope never comes. Its real product is not publicity. It is a head start.
The Small-Town Money Machine Hidden in a Clifton Office
Bruno Associates sells something local government rarely has enough of: time to hunt, write, win and manage grants. The payoff shows up as fire gear, safer streets, cleaner buses and projects that might otherwise wait years.
Michael Ciancio Is Marketing the Evidence, Not the Adjectives
After years translating enterprise software into plain English, the New Jersey executive has arrived in legal tech with a compact doctrine: earn authority, diversify demand and make every claim carry its own proof.
Glenn Bolstad Is Making Banking Software Feel Less Like Banking Software
After decades inside banks and technology companies, Glenn Bolstad arrived at a stubborn idea: the best digital banking system should make more room for judgment, relationships and service - not less.
The $1.7 Billion Wealth Firm That Sold the Plumbing - and Kept Its Name
US Financial Services spent three decades building a planning practice around life transitions. Then it made a counterintuitive succession move: join a larger platform, preserve the local brand, and turn the firm itself into a home for other advisers.
The Company That Sells America Its Fun, One Arcade Cabinet at a Time
How a Greenwich Village jukebox route became the quiet backbone of the American arcade - and why the machines eating your quarters probably arrived in a Betson truck.
The Bernardsville Shop That Makes Your Smart Home Actually Work
A musician started a mobile recording business in 2005. Twenty years later, Tim Manning runs one of North Jersey's go-to smart-home shops - and the pitch is still 'it's not about us, it's about you.'
The Jersey Factory That Still Makes Its Own Light
For 50 years Princeton Tec has done the unfashionable thing: keep the whole flashlight - the plastic, the tooling, the assembly - under one New Jersey roof. Here is why a 40-person shop still bets on American-made light.
The Firm That Buys Boring and Sells Big
For 40-plus years, DFW Capital Partners has made its money on the companies nobody puts on a magazine cover - fleet washers, infusion clinics, surgical centers - and turned quiet cash flow into a $2 billion track record.
Ocean Casino Resort
Ocean Casino Resort took Atlantic City's most conspicuous white elephant and turned it into a business built on the one thing rivals cannot copy: the view. Now a fresh owner, another renovation cycle and a wider entertainment portfolio are testing how far that advantage can travel.
K9 Resorts Luxury Pet Hotel
Two brothers turned a teenage dog-walking hustle into a cage-free pet-hotel franchise now worth more than $128 million a year - and the dogs get private suites.
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
It started with baking soda in 1846. Nearly two centuries later, the quiet New Jersey company behind Arm & Hammer has turned buying other people's brands into a business worth more than $25 billion.
K. Hovnanian® Homes
For 65 years the Hovnanian family has been putting keys in first-time buyers' hands and building 55-and-up communities where the lawn mows itself. Here is how a New Jersey homebuilder turned patience into a business model.
Shimona Chadha
She has spent two decades turning marketing from a service desk into a revenue engine. Now she is doing it for a 22,000-person technology company from a house in New Jersey.
Christopher Leonor
From a high-school tungsten study to the quality desk of a global drugmaker, Christopher Leonor’s career is a study in the quiet systems that make pharmaceutical supply chains work.
Alex Wright
He started at SEAD Software as a solutions architect in 2017. Six years later he was running it. Here is how Alex Wright turned messy data into a business.
CORXEL Pharmaceuticals
CORXEL Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies for cardiometabolic diseases worldwide. Spun out of RTW Investments in 2019 (formerly JiXing Pharmaceuticals) and dual-based in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey and Shanghai, CORXEL is advancing a pipeline led by CX11, a differentiated oral small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist for obesity and type 2 diabetes, alongside JX10 for acute ischemic stroke and JX09 for hypertension. In January 2026 the company raised up to $287 million in Series D1 financing to push these programs through late-stage clinical trials.
Thea Energy
Thea Energy is a New Jersey fusion power company building a simplified, mass-manufacturable stellarator. Instead of the exotic, millimeter-precise 3D magnet coils that defined earlier stellarators, Thea uses arrays of small, planar high-temperature-superconductor electromagnets steered by software - shifting complexity from hardware fabrication to control code. Spun out of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 2022, the company is building Eos, a neutron-source stellarator meant to prove power-plant-relevant performance and generate near-term revenue, ahead of its first commercial plant, Helios.
Michael Mecca
Michael Mecca is the founder and CEO of PortPro, a Kearny, New Jersey based software company building a TMS purpose-built for drayage carriers and brokers. He grew up in his family's intermodal trucking business, Mecca & Son Trucking, then co-founded Axle Technologies before launching PortPro in 2019. Under his leadership PortPro raised a $12M Series A in 2023 and now serves 550+ drayage companies, layering AI agents (Jerry, Helen) on top of its operating platform.
Ricky Choi
Ricky Choi is the co-founder and CEO of Outerspace, a brand-centric 3PL that runs picking, packing, kitting and shipping for direct-to-consumer companies out of a 200,000+ sq ft campus in northern New Jersey and additional coasts. Before Outerspace, he co-founded Nice Laundry, a Kickstarter-launched premium socks and underwear brand that set an opening-day backer record in fashion. He is a Wharton graduate who worked in venture capital and at LivingSocial before starting companies of his own.