President: Debbie Hart, CAE, APR
BioNJ, President
Debbie Hart serves as the President of BioNJ. She worked alongside New Jersey’s leading biotechnology industry CEOs to establish BioNJ in 1994. BioNJ’s mission is to promote a business and public policy environment in the State of New Jersey and beyond that enhances the growth and prosperity of New Jersey’s biotechnology companies. During her career, Debbie has served on several New Jersey State Government boards and committees and has been active with a number of academic institutions. Debbie served as a member of former Governor Jon Corzine’s Economic Growth Transition Team.
She served on the Steering Committee for the Prosperity New Jersey Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Cluster study that was conducted by Professor Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School. She was appointed by former Governor James E. McGreevey to the Jobs Growth and Economic Development Commission. She is currently a member of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s (NJEDA) Technology Advisory Board and the NJEDA Technology Centre Advisory Committee where she serves as Chair. In addition, Debbie served as a member of The New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Task Force and the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education Task Force on Higher Education Quality and Reputation and Competitiveness of the State.
Debbie has served as an advisory board member of the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Biomedical Engineering Program, the Monmouth County Biotechnology High School initiative and Monmouth University’s School of Science, Technology and Engineering Advisory Counsel. She is also a member of the Science Advisory Board in the College of Liberal Arts, Education and Sciences at Rider University. Debbie holds a master’s degree from the S. I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University where she graduated cum laude and a bachelor’s degree from Trenton State College where she graduated magna cum laude.
Debbie has been honored by NJBIZ as one of NJ’s Top 50 Women in 2009 and by the Women’s Fund of New Jersey as a Woman Advancing Science in the biotechnology industry, and Debbie and the organization have been recognized by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) with a New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Award. She recently was recognized as a Woman of Achievement by the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
