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Morris Business Cabinet

Businesses today are all facing the need to bring our resources together to provide a competitive advantage, develop our people, fulfill our personal and corporate missions and to truly make a difference in our county as a unified voice. 

To meet this need, the Morris Business Cabinet, providing access to corporate peers, government officials, community leaders and Statewide initiatives, was launched with a private invitation-only dialogue with then Senator Jon Corzine on November 17, 2003. 

Senator Corzine was very impressed by the depth and breadth of the business community’s focus on key issues and encouraged the Cabinet’s continued strategy. Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen and Senator Frank Lautenberg have joined as Honorary Members of the Cabinet and have demonstrated strong support for our mission. 

For more information, please contact Morris County Chamber of Commerce President, Paul Boudreau .

Honorary Members

Senator Frank R. Lautenberg
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, United States House of Representatives

Members

	InSitech, Inc.
	PricewaterhouseCoopers
	Mack-Cali Realty Corporation
	Novartis Pharmaceuticals
	Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP
	Solix Inc.
	State Farm Insurance Companies

Cabinet Member Biographies

Edward W. Ahart, Partner
Schenck, Price, Smith & King

Business Organizations Department

ewa@spsk.com

Edward W. Ahart is a partner with Schenck, Price, Smith & King’s Business Organizations Department, and has chaired the Corporate Practice Group. He practices primarily as a transactional attorney, concentrating in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, finance and banking, and general corporate law. Mr. Ahart also is the firm’s managing partner and serves as chair of its Management Committee.

Mr. Ahart has extensive experience in the purchase, sale and financing of businesses and related commercial transactions, including the structuring and restructuring, negotiating and closing of complex asset and stock sales and acquisitions. He has represented numerous financial institutions, both large and small, including JP Morgan Chase Bank and The Bank of the Somerset Hills in commercial loans and has served as counsel to Hooper Holmes, Inc., Basking Ridge Golf Course, Inc., Allied Oil, LLC, Duke Farms Foundation, Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey (the “IIABNJ”), Millington Quarry, Inc. and Damon G. Douglas, Inc. in general corporate matters.  Mr. Ahart has been listed in “Who’s Who,” and “Who's Who in American Law.”  He is a frequent speaker on corporate governance, transactional and financing matters and is an active participant in the Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University.  He also speaks often at programs sponsored by the IIABNJ on issues of interest to insurance agents, and a considerable percentage of his practice is comprised of the representation of closely held and family-owned businesses, including many insurance agencies.

Mr. Ahart is admitted to both the New Jersey and New York bars, is a member of the Morris County, New Jersey State and American Bar Associations, Business Law Section, and has served on the New Jersey District X Ethics Committee, and the Board of Directors and as a counselor in the Morris Essex Inn of Transactional Counsel.

Active in the community, Mr. Ahart is a member of Lafayette College's Board of Trustees and its Executive Committee, and has served as the President of the Lafayette College Alumni Association. He has also served for several years as Chair of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and is currently a member of both its Executive Committee and the Morris Business Cabinet.  He has been the Vice President and a member of the Harkers Hollow Golf and Country Club Board, and is active in various other organizations.  He acted as the attorney for Pohatcong Township in Warren County and its Board of Education.  He was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Warren County ARC.  In addition, Mr. Ahart has served as an Elder and President of the Board of Trustees of the Greenwich Presbyterian Church in Stewartsville, and President of the Greenwich Cemetery Association.  The Association has a large endowment program, substantial staff, diverse Board of Trustees, and is currently engaged in a multimillion dollar planning and development process. 

After receiving an undergraduate degree with honors from Lafayette College in 1969, Mr. Ahart attended the Cornell Law School where he was graduated in 1972.  Prior to joining Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP in 1973, he served as Law Secretary to the Honorable Joseph Halpern, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

 

John C. Parry, President & CEO
Solix, Inc.

John Parry was appointed President and CEO of Solix in June 2004, after serving as Executive Director of Program Operations for NECA for 6 years.  He has over 33 years of experience in the telecom industry, including various positions of increasing responsibility with Bell Atlantic Corporation (now part of Verizon).  Prior to joining NECA, he was President of Bell Atlantic Network Systems.

Parry’s educational background includes a BA in English from University of South Carolina and an MBA from Pace University.  He also completed the Tuck Executive Program at Dartmouth College.
 
Parry served two tours of duty in Vietnam while a Lieutenant in the US Navy - completing various assignments in the Surface Warfare, Aviation and Intelligence communities.  He retired from the US Navy Reserve as a Captain in 1990.

B.J. Agugliaro, Managing Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

New Jersey practice

B. J. is the Managing Partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers' New Jersey Practice.  He has broad-based accounting, auditing, and business advisory experience with some of the Firm's premier clients, including Corning, Honeywell, IBM, Kodak, L-3 Communications, and Xerox.  Responsibilities most recently include serving as the Global Engagement Partner on L-3 Communications, a $16 billion defense company based in New York City.   Prior to that, B. J. served as the audit partner responsible for the Xerox Europe businesses in London (three years), working closely with the PCAOB during their inspections of the Firm and establishing and leading a U.S. GAAP/GAAS Center of Excellence in the PwC UK Firm.  His strong technical skills include mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures (primarily on L-3, Honeywell, Kodak, and IBM), government contract accounting (on L-3, Honeywell, and H Power), and a multitude of broad revenue recognition, restructuring, and Sarbox 404 implementation areas.  He has over 23 years with PwC.

 B. J. has a strong network of partners both within the US firm (including throughout our technology and industrial products practice as well as in our national technical office).  Additionally, B. J.'s many multi-national client experiences have resulted in a strong network of overseas contacts in PwC's global practice.  He established a successful Executive Roundtable (now in its sixth year) designed to assemble CEOs and CFOs of U.S. registrants living and working in the UK to share topical regulatory developments and emerging issues. 

B. J. is the leader of PwC's International Assignee group, designed to enhance the professional benefits/experiences of an International PwC assignment.  He also serves on the Strategic Change Committee for the Firm's audit practice.  He is a graduate of Boston College and a CPA in NY, NJ, CT, and CA.  He lives in Basking Ridge, NJ.

 

Carla Temple, Vice President – New Jersey
State Farm

Carla began her State Farm career in April 1978 in the Life Law Department at State Farm’s Corporate Headquarters. She transferred to our Corporate Law Department in 1980 where she participated in a broad range of legislative and regulatory activities throughout the United States and Canada.

In January 1990, Carla was promoted to Claim Manager in the Westlake Village Region in California. She joined State Farm’s President’s Office as an Executive Assistant in May 1992. In October 1994, she joined the Executive Office in the Northeastern Regional Office in Wayne, New Jersey as Vice-President of Operations.  In 2002, State Farm moved their New Jersey operation to the Morris Centre complex in Parsippany, NJ.

State Farm is the third largest auto insurer and the largest homeowner insurer in the state with 969,824 policies and 486,830 households insured.

Carla is also Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board of State Farm Indemnity Company in New Jersey, a member of the Board of Trustees at Williams Paterson University, member of the Morris County Business Cabinet.  Carla is also a past member of the Board of the New Jersey Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund, the Tri-County Chamber of Commerce and a former member of the Board of Trustees at Jersey Battered Women’s Service. 

Carla received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Illinois, a Master’s Degree from Illinois State University and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Illinois. She has earned her CPCU, CLU, ChFC, FLMI, and AIM designations.

Outside of work Carla is an avid tennis and golf player. She resides with her husband Leo Jordan in West Orange, New Jersey.