NJBIZ Power 100 G-M.

Byline: Jessica Perry

Robert Garrett

As CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health, Garrett runs New Jersey's largest health network with 17 hospitals, 500 patient care locations, 34,000 team members and 6,500 physicians. Under Garrett's leadership, the network opened the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University, formed a historic partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and secured the network's merger with New Jersey's largest behavioral health provider to dramatically improve access and the quality of care for addiction treatment and mental illness in New Jersey and beyond.

Frank Giantomasi

Frank Giantomasi is and has been regarded as the go-to attorney for real estate matters in Newark for years. He's redevelopment counsel for major projects there, including the 2 million square foot SJP development near the Broad Street station. His influence reaches beyond New Jersey's biggest city, including as redevelopment counsel for the 140-acre site formerly occupied by the NJ Developmental Center in Totowa and a 152.9-acre portion of the MOTBY peninsula in Bayonne, which is currently being redeveloped into state-of-the-art industrial warehouse space.

Brendan Gill

Brandan Gill, a veteran political consultant, has made himself a centerpiece of New Jersey politics. Brendan Gill brings more than 20 years of experience in successful campaign management, government relations, political consulting, and strategic communications. He made a name for himself chairing Phil Murphy's campaign for governor. As head of the public affairs firm The BGill Group, he earned himself a spot within Murphy's inner circle a point of tension between Murphy and Democratic lawmakers. The Montclair-based Democrat, also freeholder director in the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders, also heads the public affairs firm The BGill Group, and his impressive clientele includes U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and the late U.S. Sen Frank Lautenberg. In addition, Gill has served in the election campaigns of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, Congresswoman-elect Mikie Sherrill, and former Governor Jon Corzine. Gill is a regular guest commentator on numerous television programs, including NJTV's political roundtable, My9 NJ Now and Chasing New Jersey, and News 12 NJ Power and Politics. Gill graduated magna cum laude from Seton Hall University.

Aisha Glover

Urban redevelopment can be a slow process, with results attributable to even the most adept operators often taking years to become evident. Fortunately, Glover has a track record. Any New Jerseyan who wants to see an example of her work can look just 15 miles from downtown Newark to the Brooklyn Navy Yard widely hailed as a smashing success in the business. Glover served as vice president of external affairs for the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp., where she oversaw public affairs, fundraising and strategic partnership development, among other duties. She then moved to the Garden State, becoming President and CEO of the Newark Community Economic Development Corp. and spearheading the city's efforts to land Amazon.com Inc.'s second headquarters. Glover is now the president and CEO of the Newark Alliance, putting her at the nexus of the city's important communities, including corporations. While the Amazon effort was unsuccessful for the moment the new federal Opportunity Zone program offers another economic development tool for Glover to use.

Carl Goldberg

Goldberg is the founder and managing member of Canoe Brook Associates, a family-owned real estate consulting and development company in Roseland. The firm is comprised of the former founding partners of Roseland Property Company. Since the inception of Roseland, Goldberg has been responsible for securing the entitlements for the development of communities throughout the northeast with a special emphasis on urban waterfront development. He has directed Roseland's production of more than 1,500 homes annually has overseen Roseland's flagship endeavor, Port Imperial. Goldberg has a long history of political and industry-wide activism in New Jersey, with relationships with leaders throughout the state. He currently serves as chairman of the New Jersey Builders Association Political Action Committee and as co-chair of the Center for Real Estate Studies at Rutgers Business School.

Alex Gorsky

Gorsky is the seventh Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson since it became a publicly traded company in 1944. He began his J&J career as a sales representative with Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1988. Over the next 15 years, he advanced through positions of increasing responsibility in sales, marketing and management including assignments in the U.S., Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He was named CEO in April 2012 and chairman later in the year. Under Gorsky's leadership, J&J continues in its 132nd year to be one of the world's exceptional corporations. The company was given the #1 ranking on Barron's Magazine's 2016 list of the "World's Most Admired Companies," and is currently the number one pharmaceutical company on Fortune Magazine's list of the "World's Most Respected Companies." A longtime advocate of Diversity Inclusion and Veteran's issues, Gorsky has been named one of the "100 Most Inspiring Leaders" by Pharma Voice. Most recently, in December of 2017, he received the Ripple of Hope Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation. For the past three years, Gorsky has been on the list of the Highest Rated CEOs on The Glassdoor Employees' Choice Awards. He has also received the Jackie Robinson Award, Appeal of Conscience Award, the Joseph Wharton Leadership Award and the CADCA Humanitarian of the Year Award.

Gurbir Grewal

Grewal has earned the status of a power player not just in New Jersey, but in the nationwide Sikh-American community. The 45-year-old from Glen Rock rose to prominence as the Christie-era Bergen County prosecutor, and was named to New Jersey's top law job in December 2017. Nationwide, Grewal has opposed many Trump administration polices, either by signing on to lawsuits or letters of protest. Grewal has opposed White House efforts to roll back several provisions of the Affordable Care Act, LGBT rights, protections for undocumented immigrants, abortion and women's rights, consumer protection and more recently, online gambling.

Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti

Perhaps second only to Gov. Phil Murphy, Gutierrez-Scaccetti has been main administration cheerleader for plans to bring the state's crumbling infrastructure into the 21st century. The Transportation commissioner, along with NJ Transit Executive Director Kevin Corbett, have made themselves the faces of the statewide beleaguered transit agency, taking in the frustrations and woes of commuters who have put...