Panel 4: Taxes and Incentives
Political Columnist , The Record & northjersey.com
Moderator, Panel 4: Taxes and Incentives
Charles Stile has been covering New Jersey politics from the State House in Trenton since 1993, first with The Times of Trenton and then with The Record, which he joined in 2000. He served stints as the Record's general assignment reporter and State House bureau chief before becoming its full time columnist in 2007.
President & CEO , Choose NJ
Wesley Mathews brings over two decades of experience in business development, diplomacy, and finance to his role as President and CEO of Choose New Jersey, New Jersey’s leading nonprofit economic development organization. Prior to Choose New Jersey, Mathews served as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for over 13 years, with assignments in Germany, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Washington, D.C. In 2018 and 2019, he served as a loaned executive from the federal government to the New Jersey state government, establishing the state’s Office of International Trade and Investment at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority where he served as its inaugural director.
Executive Vice President , CBRE | Brokerage Services, Global Corporate Services
Gil Medina is an attorney, CPA and licensed real estate professional who has served as secretary of commerce for the state of New Jersey; manager at two regional CPA firms in Philadelphia; attorney-advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Camden city councilman; and executive positions at two of the world’s largest commercial real estate companies. He sits on various boards, including the Board of Directors of Northfield Bank and the board of Solix, Inc., on which he serves as the chairman of the board.
CEO & Executive Director , NJCPA
Prior to joining NJCPA in 1999, Ralph Thomas held various accounting-related management positions at Citibank, AT&T, Potomac Electric Power Company and PriceWaterhouse (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers). Thomas was appointed to the inaugural American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) National Commission on Diversity and Inclusion, and subsequently the AICPA Foundation Board. He is a lifetime member and former national and chapter president of the National Association of Black Accountants.
Member , Sills, Cummis & Gross
Ted Zangari is chair of the corporate law firm’s real estate department and serves on the firm’s management Committee. Zangari also chairs the firm’s public policy and governmental affairs practice group, assisting developers, hospitals, banks, casinos, public utility companies and other regulated industry clients in the ways that government and business intersect on a range of legislative and regulatory matters. He serves on several boards including the executive committee of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce. Zangari has chaired a governor’s study commission on business attraction and retention incentives, and has served on a governor’s real estate advisory board.