Rutgers Dean David Finegold to be Inducted into New Jersey High-Tech Hall of Fame

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Professor David Finegold, dean of Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations, will be inducted into the New Jersey High-Tech Hall of Fame Thursday, April 23. The induction dinner and ceremony will take place 6 p.m. at the Crystal Plaza in Livingston.

Since joining Rutgers in 2007, Finegold has led efforts to build a world-class bioscience cluster in central New Jersey (www.bio-one.org) and to develop a new Master of Business and Science degree framework that will help develop the next generation of leaders and innovators for high-tech industries.

Finegold’s fellow inductees include Commissioner David Socolow, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development; business leaders – Timothy Rothwell, chair, sanofi-aventis U.S.; Mark Galant, chair, GAIN Capital Group; and Ronald A. Berg, CEO, RadPharm – and researchers Aiguo Wang, vice president, reconstructive technologies, Stryker Orthopaedics; Dr. Jemo Kang, president and CEO, Princeton BioMeditech Corp.; and Philip R. Goode, distinguished professor of physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Trenton High School West is being honored with the “Making a Difference” Award for the Novo Nordisk Legal Mentoring Program.

The New Jersey High-Tech Hall of Fame was created in 1999 to recognize the achievements of life science and high-tech research and business leaders, educators and government officials who have demonstrated exemplary work in innovative products and therapies. Honorees also have promoted research and government policy that have made New Jersey one of the research and development leaders domestically and abroad. Nearly 60 leaders have been inducted and are featured on the virtual Hall of Fame Web site at www.njhightech.org.