The 2015 General Counsel of the Year Awards program honors New Jersey’s General Counsels and Chief Legal Officers for the role they play in making their companies successful.
Finalists will be recognized and the winner in each category will be announced during the breakfast awards ceremony on June 2.
And here are the 2015 General Counsel of the year finalists:
Category of Recognition: Public Company: with annual revenues up to $1 Billion
Suzanne Andrews
Title: General Counsel
Company: Investors Bank
Location: Short Hills
Gloria Barr
Title: Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Company: Managed Health Care Associates
Location: Florham Park
Richard Gorelick
Title: Corporate Vice President, General Counsel, Administration and Secretary
Company: Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation
Location: Plainsboro
Warren Mondschein
Title: Vice President and General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer
Company: CommVault
Location: Tinton Falls
Peter L. Gray
Title: Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Company: Tumi Holdings, Inc.
Location: South Plainfield
Category of Recognition: Public Company: with annual revenues over $1 Billion
Mark Boyland
Title: General Counsel and Vice President Environmental, Health and Safety Compliance
Company: Benjamin Moore & Co., a Berkshire Hathaway Company
Location: Montvale
Paul Cash
Title: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Company: Wyndham Exchange and Rentals
Location: Parsippany
Mariellen Dugan
Title: Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Company: New Jersey Resources Corporation
Location: Wall
Paul Ferdenzi
Title: Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Company: Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Location: Parsippany
Robert Ingato
Title: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Company: CIT Group Inc.
Location: Livingston
Kelly Slavitt
Title: Vice President and General Counsel, North America & Food
Company: Reckitt Benckiser LLC
Location: Parsippany
Category of Recognition: Private Company: with annual revenues up to $500 MM
Renard Barnes
Title: General Counsel
Company: AJS Shared Services, LLC
Location: Warren
Richard Berger Sr.
Title: Vice President and General Counsel
Company: Russo Development, LLC
Location: Carlstadt
David Berger
Title: Vice President, Legal Affairs
Company: West-Ward Pharmaceutical Corp.
Location: Eatontown
John Mauro
Title: Chief Counsel and CAO
Company: FinPro, Inc.
Location: Gladstone
Shirleen Roberts
Title: General Counsel
Company: Heller Industrial Parks, Inc.
Location: Edison
Brad Shron
Title: Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Company: Prudential Center, New Jersey Devils & Philadelphia 76ers
Location: Newark
Category of Recognition: Private Company: with annual revenues over $500 MM
Allison Berger
Title: Group Vice President and General Counsel
Company: Wakefern Food Corp.
Location: Keasbey
Scott Brucker
Title: Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Company: NFI, Inc.
Location: Cherry Hill
David Cordero
Title: Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
Company: Maserati North America, Inc.
Location: Englewood Cliffs
Jorge Gracia
Title: Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Company: Samsung Electronics America Inc.
Location: Ridgefield Park
Robert Marin
Title: Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Company: Panasonic Corporation of North America
Location: Newark
Jim Van Horn
Title: Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Company: Sun Chemical Corporation
Location: Parsippany
Allen Waxman
Title: Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Company: Eisai Inc.
Location: Woodcliff Lake
Category of Recognition: Non-Profit or Government Organization
John Chiappinelli
Title: Chief of Legal Affairs and Compliance
Company: VNA Health Group
Location: Red Bank
Michael Ligorano
Title: General Counsel
Company: Diocese of Metuchen
Location: Piscataway
Douglas Long
Title: Township Solicitor
Company: Deptford Township, New Jersey
Location: Woodbury
Lawrence Powers
Title: General Counsel
Company: AIA-NJ
Location: New Brunswick
Kathy Schulz
Title: Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Company: The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology
Location: Hoboken
Holly Stern
Title: General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Company: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Location: Newark
Category of Recognition: Healthcare
Deborah Cmielewski
Title: Vice President and General Counsel
Company: Armada Health Care LLC
Location: Florham Park
Ann Gavzy
Title: Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel
Company: Meridian Health
Location: Neptune
Rebecca Levy
Title: General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer
Company: Summit Medical Group/Summit Health Management
Location: Berkeley Heights
David Mebane
Title: Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Company: Barnabas Health
Location: West Orange