It started with a cold call. Ann Redler, senior program director at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, was on the other end of the line pitching an HR leadership program to Teresa Oakley, LG Electronics North America’s vice president of human resources.
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ADP opens Pennsylvania sales center with 1,000 employees
The Allentown building that hosts the ADP Inside Sales Center of Excellence boasts 243,241 square feet across 10 floors at the Five City Center office tower.
Read More »SHI set to open second Piscataway integration facility with staff of 120
The 400,000-square-foot Ridge Integration Facility is set to open in Middlesex County by the end of October.
Read More »Edison Partners leads $15M investment in employee engagement company
Emplify, which also announced a new vice president of sales, said it plans to reinvest the funds back into its core product and service innovation, and into expanding its sales and marketing teams.
Read More »Jersey City leads world in percentage of female start-up founders
Businesses founded by women account for 23.5 percent of those in Jersey City that received more than $1 million in funding, a higher proportion than any other city, according to a study by banking app Tide.
Read More »Beyond the wheel
HNTB predicts that connected and autonomous vehicles will affect businesses such as taxi and trucking companies and that those effects will revolve around legal and regulatory issues related to liability, taxation and use of GPS information along with other vehicle-generated data. State and regional transportation agencies have taken note and begun examining how the changes could play out.
Read More »ID Systems rebrands as it closes Pointer Telocation acquisition
The company’s new corporate umbrella now includes global brands PowerFleet, Pointer Telocation and Cellocator. PowerFleet will be both the corporate entity name, as well as the primary brand for North America.
Read More »Commvault launches global enterprise segment; names new execs
Commvault announced on Thursday Anthony Faustini will lead its new global enterprises initiative. As vice president of global accounts, Faustini will increase the value of large enterprises in the segment, the cloud and on-site the data software company said. “We work with the largest global enterprises to solve hard data management problems and we have ...
Read More »Propelify, NJ Tech Council prep for 10K at innovation fest
“Tomorrow’s going to be about bringing together the entrepreneurial and innovation community. It’s about making sure people have access to investors, business partners, talent,” Aaron Price said in a phone interview with NJBIZ.
Read More »OwnBackup adds VP of solution engineering from Salesforce
Rich Kline joins the Englewood Cliffs-based company after 11 years at Salesforce.
Read More »Port Authority wins government experience award for mobile portals project
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has earned the 2019 Government Experience Award from the Center for Digital Government for its Mobile Portals Project. The Port Authority says the project encompasses three mobile applications and four websites where real-time transit data is readily available for the millions of people who live, work, ...
Read More »Turtle & Hughes names West as president
Linden-based Turtle & Hughes Integrated Supply (THIS) said it recently named Scott West as president. West had been serving as vice president and member of the Turtle & Hughes Executive Committee. THIS is a division of Turtle & Hughes, one of the nation’s largest independent electrical and industrial distributors. The announcement was made jointly by ...
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