Lawrenceville Business Leader To Be Honored By Archdiocese Of Newark

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ - A Lawrenceville businessman will be honored at the Cardinal's 33rd Annual Business & Labor Recognition Reception on March 3 in Cedar Grove, the Archdiocese of Newark said.

Joseph R. Jingoli Jr., CEO and chairman of JINGOLI, and Thomas J. Sullivan, president of IBEW Local 164, will be recognized at the event, which will be held at The Grove.

He will be honored alongside and a Bergen County labor leader, Thomas J. Sullivan, president of IBEW Local 164,

The reception draws hundreds of business and labor leaders and benefits the Archdiocese of Newark's Catholic Youth Organization and Retreat Center in Kearny, which serves more than 60,000 young people annually. The event has raised more than $5 million since it launched 33 years ago.

Jingoli, this year's business honoree, leads a firm specializing in contracting, construction, and power and renewable energy. He and partners Michael Jingoli, Jack Morris and the Seminole Tribe of Florida are founding partners of Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City. For more than 30 years, Jingoli has focused on education, job training and mentorship programs in the construction industry.

He founded the Leaders in Training Program, which provides summer employment and educational support to teenagers in Atlantic City, New Brunswick and Newark, and serves as chairman of the Farm Team, a workforce rehabilitation program for individuals in recovery based at his family's New Jersey farm.

“Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Jingoli are men of great character whose dedication to their employees, members and communities truly sets them apart,” said Tom Conboy, the Archdiocese’s director of youth and young adult ministry and CYO. “They join the ranks of our state’s most distinguished business and labor leaders, and we look forward to recognizing them at our annual event.”

This year marks the 10th time the reception has been held under Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Newark.

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