Rob Ott (Chair)
Team Lead, AI/Digital Health & Entrepreneurship,
BioNJ

Linda Brown (2018 & 2019 Chair)

Peter J. Butch III
Attorney of Law,
Fox Rothschild LLP

Frank Castellana, M.D.
Managing Partner,
Knollwood Partners

Nena Golubovic, PhD
Director of Innovation,
Keller Center

Jim Gunton
Managing Partner,
Tech Council Ventures

Pavita Howe (2024-2025 Chair)
Industry Partnerships,
Sanofi, US Vaccines

Jingjun “Jim” Huang, Ph.D.
CEO
Ascendia Pharmaceuticals

R. Douglas Hulse
Executive Director,
The Sage Group

Sho Islam
Director of Office of Business Engagement,
Middlesex County Department of Economic Development

Zvi Loewy, Ph.D.
Managing Partner,
KL&R Biotech Partners

John Pennett
Partner, Life Sciences Group,
EisnerAmper LLP

Robert G. Pergolizzi, Ph.D.
Director, Surgical Sciences Research Laboratory,
Englewood Heath

Sandra Powell-Elliott, B.S., M.B.A
Vice President, Life Sciences and Innovation,
Hackensack Meridian Health

Dr. Navneet Puri
Former CEO of Nevakar and InnoPharma

Jorge J. Ramirez
Strategy & Corporate Development
Option Care Health

Tom P. Richardson, PhD, MBA
President,
Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship (ILSE)

Dr. Beth Rowley
Director of Operations,
Princeton BioLABS

Vincent A. Smeraglia (2020 & 2021 Chair)
Executive Director,
Office of Research Commercialization, Rutgers, The State University of NJ

Thomas Villani
Associate Vice President, AI & Machine Learning,
NJ Innovation Institute (NJII)

Michael Wiley (2022-2023 Chair)
Vice President,
Foundation Venture Capital Group

Paul Woitach
Managing Partner,
Pharmaceutical Advisors