Rastelli Foods Group Is “World Class Provider” of Food Products

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What’s Inside
Hot Topic......................5
SJ Facts.......................8
Snapshot....................16
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Vol. 9, Issue 4, 2015
Up Front
Dr. Carman Ciervo Inducted
into Camden Catholic High
School Hall of Fame
Dr. Carman Ciervo
Page 43
Ian D. Meklinsky elected
to Fox Rothschild LLP
Executive Committee
Ian D. Meklinsky
Page 43
Scott L. Vernick elected
to Fox Rothschild LLP
Executive Committee
Scott L. Vernick
page 32
SNJBP’s Impact Award Winner:
Rastelli Foods Group Is “World
Class Provider” of Food Products
With $1 Billion in Annual Revenues
and 500 employees
Rastelli Foods Group has been “at the
processing facilities, warehouses, and
nucleus of food management since 1976.”
distribution centers.
And, today, the organization is recognized as
Founder Ray Rastelli describes the Group
an industry-leading corporation supplying
as “a world-class provider of products that
the finest hotels, restaurants,
set the standard in taste, quality,
institutions, and retail markets
cleanliness, and safety from each
with the highest quality food
of our food processing plants. We
products and service.
take ownership of the production
process; hand trimming,
Since its inception, Rastelli
has expanded its operation of
processing and packing in
our state-of-the-art facilities.
eight retail locations to three
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Tony and Ray Rastelli
high quality, USDA inspected
Atlantic City Aquarium at Historic Gardner’s
Basin to Unveil New $25,000 Cape Bank
Sponsored Traveling Touch Tank Exhibit
Looking back, Lisa Schall will tell you that
the call she received on that spring morning
two years ago was not wholly unexpected.
On that day, the Atlantic City Aquarium’s
“makeshift” Traveling Touch Tank Exhibit
(then called “Oceans In Motion”) was on its
way to a school in Mays Landing, NJ. The call
informed Schall that the exhibit would not
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reach its destination or, for that matter, any
other ever again.
Recently, thanks to a $25,000 Sponsorship
Agreement reached last spring with Cape
Bank, the Aquarium unveiled its new Traveling
Touch Tank Exhibit. Atlantic City Mayor
Donald A. Guardian and children from
continued on page 34
Study Finds NJ
Community Development
Corporations are a $12
Billion Economic Engine
Karen Rose Karpousis, Esq.
named 2015 NJ Super
Lawyers in area of Family Law
MEND making housing/economic
investments locally
Karen Rose Karpousis, Esq.
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Atlantic City Aquarium Mascot Seaweed helped show off the
Atlantic City Aquarium’s New Traveling Touch Tank Exhibit
Moorestown Ecumenical Neighborhood
Development, Inc. (MEND) in partnership with
the Housing and Community Development
Network of New Jersey (HCDNNJ) has recently
announced the release of an important new
study on the significant economic impact that
The
Springside
School
Apartments,
Route 541,
Burlington
Township
continued on page 14
Reader Poll.................20
A look Inside.......22 &28
Dave & Busters Invite..42
In the Bull’s Eye
Jon Runyan
He started in started 192
consecutive regular season
NFL games, as well as 22
playoff games during his
“streak”…was a Pro Bowler
as well as only the fourth
NFL player ever elected
to Congress…majored in
kinesiology at Michigan…
stands 6’ 8” and weighs in
at almost 300 pounds…and
spent more than a decade as
a premier right tackle during
which he fought legendary
battles with NY Giants sackleader Michael Strahan.
For more on former US Congressman
and Eagles right tackle Jon Runyan,
go to page 12.
This Month’s SNJBP
Reader Poll Results
Only 20% believe that
companies should not be
required to provide any paid
sick leave…and football (61%)
is overwhelmingly your favorite
sport to watch
more poll results on page 20
May 2015
Reader Poll
Who will be the Republican
presidential nominee
in 2016?
and more
on p20
SNJ Business People
Kennedy Chief Physician Executive Dr.
Carman Ciervo Inducted into Camden
Catholic High School Hall of Fame
Carman Ciervo, D.O., FACOFP, dist., Chief Physician Executive at
Kennedy Health, was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame of Camden
Catholic High School (CCHS) in Cherry Hill at a special ceremony recently.
Dr. Ciervo, a 1980 graduate of CCHS, was one of 13 individual inductees
and two teams entered into its Hall of Fame for 2015. He was one of six
inductees installed in the school’s Emerald Hall of Fame for Academics
and Arts. This is the ninth group to be recognized with the honor since the
CCHS Fall of Fame event began in 2007.
Dr. Ciervo, a member of Kennedy’s senior leadership team since 2010, was
named Chief Physician Executive in 2014. He plays a key role in Kennedy’s
continued growth and transformation, working directly on hospital
and health system initiatives related to the employed-physician model,
population health, and clinical excellence. He also continues to oversee
the management and operations of the Kennedy Health Alliance, a quickly
growing network of primary and specialty care physician practices serving
three counties in South Jersey.
A member of the Board of Governors for the American College of
Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP), Dr. Ciervo was honored in 2014
by the organization as a “Guardian of the Profession” for demonstrating a
strong sense of pride in the osteopathic medical profession and for working
actively to advance osteopathic medicine. Dr. Ciervo has served on the
ACOFP Industry Relations Committee, as Chair of the In-service Exam
Committee, and Vice Chair of the Committee on Evaluation and Education.
Dr. Ciervo is a member of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the
American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians State Society and the
President’s Council for the National Board of
Osteopathic Medical Examiners. He has been
honored by South Jersey and SJ magazines as
a “Top Doc” in various physician and reader
polls. An inductee into the AOA Mentor Hall
of Fame, Dr. Ciervo has conducted numerous
clinical trials, has obtained several million
dollars in grant funding for education and
research and has presented at more than 100
national speaking engagements. Additionally,
he has published more than 25 peer-reviewed
articles for medical journals.
Dr. Carman Ciervo
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The Law Offices of
Charny, Charny &
Karpousis Partner
Karen Rose Karpousis,
Esq. Named 2015 New
Jersey Super Lawyers in
the Area of Family Law
The Law Offices of Charny,
Charny & Karpousis, P.A., a firm
concentrating in divorce and family
law based in Mount Laurel, New
Jersey, recently announced that
partner Karen Rose Karpousis,
Esq. has been named one of the
2015 New Jersey Super Lawyers
in Family Law. The Super Lawyer
honor is awarded using a rigorous,
multistage process based upon
independent research, which
takes into consideration peer
nominations and professional
achievements. Those candidates in
each practice area with the highest
totals are selected and grouped
with other
lawyers of
comparable
firm
size. Ms.
Karpousis
has received
this
recognition
every year
since 2007.
Karen Rose Karpousis, Esq.
Scott L. Vernick and Ian D.
Meklinsky Elected to Firm
Executive Committee
Fox Rothschild LLP recently announced that Scott L. Vernick
and Ian D. Meklinsky have been elected to serve as at-large
members of the firm’s Executive Committee, which is its governing body.
Vernick and Meklinsky will succeed Stephanie Resnick and
Alexander Hernaez, who have completed their respective terms
on the committee.
A nationally ranked trial lawyer and head of the firm’s Privacy
and Data Security Practice, Vernick represents Fortune 500 companies in lawsuits that focus on technology, intellectual property,
health care, privacy and data security. Over the past decade, he
has developed extensive fluency in the rapidly evolving field of
privacy and data security. He routinely counsels multinational
and mid-sized businesses on how to mitigate risk and overcome
the challenges posed by the current state and federal enforcement environment. For several years, Vernick has contributed
to the “Combating Cyberthreats” section to West/Thompson
Reuters’s Data Security and Privacy Law guide, and he is also
a frequent commentator for national and local media outlets on
current issues related to privacy.
Co-chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Department, Meklinsky represents employers across the country in both union
and non-union contexts. He works closely with human resource
professionals and in-house counsel to navigate the increasingly
complex workplace-related rules and regulations mandated by
the myriad
of laws to
provide
creative,
practical,
costeffective
advice and
solutions to
employment
issues.
Scott L. Vernick
Ian D. Meklinsky