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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joe Colangelo
Joe Colangelo is the Founder and CEO of Boxcar Transit, a luxury commuter bus and parking marketplace company he started in 2016 by renting out his own Cranford, NJ driveway for $2/day. A U.S. Navy veteran, UC Berkeley political science graduate, and former President of Consumers' Research, Colangelo built Boxcar into a profitable suburban mobility platform serving 21 New Jersey towns with named luxury bus routes to Midtown Manhattan, nearly 600,000 reservations across 7 years, and a parking network of 1,500+ spaces across 4+ states - positioning the company as the answer to every NJ commuter's prayer during rail strikes, mass transit disruptions, and the general indignities of commuting by train.
Julio Casado
Julio Casado is the CEO of ANJA Life, the first adult-use cannabis dispensary in Highland Park, New Jersey, and the founder and managing partner of Full Funnel Growth, a NYC-based growth marketing agency. A Cornell-educated, Bronx-raised operator with a decade-plus background spanning Deloitte, AXA, Success Academy and Bridge Philanthropic Consulting, he now sits at the unlikely intersection of management consulting, e-commerce growth funnels, and a Sanskrit-rooted cannabis brand named for the act of manifesting.
Christopher Gaeta
Christopher Gaeta is the founder and CEO of InSite Health, a venture-backed behavioral health company building what he calls a K-12 wellness operating system: one integrated platform that bundles mental health screenings, on-site therapy and psychiatric care for school districts that were otherwise stitching together six or more separate vendors. A 2023 Swarthmore College graduate and former co-captain of the golf team, he previously ran the campus-wellness company Grapefruit to 250,000 patients and worked as a healthcare venture investor before turning operator. Business Insider named him a top Gen Z venture capitalist, and he aims to build the nation's largest K-12 wellness platform by 2030.
Howard Yuh
Howard Yuh is a plasma physicist turned founder who is trying to break China's grip on magnesium by pulling the metal out of the ocean. As CEO and cofounder of Tidal Metals, the New Jersey deeptech he spun out of his earlier desalination venture GreenBlu, he uses an adsorption temperature-swing vapor pump - a trick borrowed from fusion research - to extract magnesium salt from seawater with only electricity, no mining, and no waste. The company raised $8.5M in seed funding led by DCVC in 2024 and won the World Economic Forum's Sustainable Mining Challenge the same year.
Marques Brownlee
Marques Brownlee, known as MKBHD, is the internet's most-trusted voice on consumer technology. Starting his YouTube channel at 14 while still in high school, he built a 20+ million subscriber empire on the back of obsessive production quality and a consumer-first perspective. Beyond reviewing gadgets, he co-hosts the Waveform podcast, serves as board member and chief creative partner at Ridge, is a 2022 WFDF World Champion in ultimate frisbee, and was named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2024.
Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith is listed as a Group Chief Executive Officer associated with Smith, the Asbury Park hospitality collective behind Porta, Pascal & Sabine, Homesick, and Lovesick. Her public footprint is thin; her affiliation places her inside one of New Jersey's most recognizable restaurant groups, an operation that helped re-light Asbury Park's main streets after 2006.
Mk.gee
Mk.gee (Michael Todd Gordon) is a New Jersey-born musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist whose debut album Two Star & the Dream Police (2024) became a critical phenomenon - ranking #1 album of 2024 by The New York Times, Dazed, and Clash, and earning a Metacritic score of 83. A reclusive guitar savant with an ear for lo-fi distortion and cassette warmth, he has co-produced for Omar Apollo and Dijon, co-written for Bon Iver, and collaborated with Justin Bieber, all while maintaining a fiercely independent artistic identity.