ROI-NJ Recognizes 17 NJIT Highlanders in its 2024 Power Lists

Seventeen people associated with New Jersey Institute of Technology made ROI-NJ’s annual lists of influential power brokers in New Jersey, with three cracking the top Super 60 Power List. 

The Super 60 honorees were President Teik C. Lim, Luiz De La Hoz, a member of NJIT’s Hispanic Latinx Leadership Council, and Michele Siekerka, a member of the Board of Directors of NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute.

Lim is the first person of color to lead NJIT, De La Hoz is a first vice president and regional director of community leading at Valley Bank and Siekerka is president of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association.

ROI-NJ recognized another 14 alumni, board members and an administrator in the fields where they’ve made their marks, including real estate, law and economic development. Here they are by category:

Associations and Organizations - Latina Surge President Elisa Charters, an NJIT alumna and trustee; BioNJ President and CEO Debbie Hart, a member of NJII Board of Directors; HealthCare Institute of New Jersey President and CEO Dean Paranicas, a member of the NJII Board of Directors; and Commerce and Industry Association President Anthony Russo, an alumnus; and New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology Executive Director Judith Sheft, a member of the advisory board for NJIT's Murray Center for Women in Technology, who also made ROI-NJ's Technology list.

Consultants - 1868 Public Affairs Partner LeRoy Jones, an alumnus

Economic Development - NJII President Michael Johnson 

Law - Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi Chair of Environmental Law Dennis Toft, a trustee who’s a co-vice chair 

National and Global Executives - Stryker President of Digital, Robotics and Enabling Technologies Robert Cohen, an alumnus who’s chair of NJIT’s Board of Trustees, and T&M Associates CEO, President and Chairman Gary Dahms, a trustee

New Jersey Executives - Langan President and CEO David Gockel, an alumnus who’s a member of the NJIT Foundation Board of Directors, and Princeton NuEnergy CEO Chao Yan, an alumnus

Real Estate - Bridge Industrial Partner of the Northeast Region Jeff Milanaik, an alumnus, and MZM Construction & Management Co. President and CEO Marjorie Perry, an alumna who’s a member of the NJIT Foundation Board of Directors

In describing the recognition, ROI-NJ Editor Tom Bergeron explained that “influence comes in a lot of forms. Having an impact in a specific sector or community — an impact that isn’t measured in dollars and cents — is important, too.”