Nominations Are Open For the 2025 Annual New Jersey Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards

Nominations Are Open For the 2025 Annual New Jersey Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards

Awards Honor Immigrant Entrepreneurs Making a Difference in New Jersey

Trenton, NJ (April 14, 2025) – The NJ Business Immigration Coalition announces that nominations are open for the annual New Jersey Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards. The awards celebrate the important role of immigrants in today’s economy and honor the contributions of immigrant business leaders to their communities.

Award categories include growth, advocacy, innovation, sustainability, and leadership, as well as the 2025 Immigrant Entrepreneur of the Year. There is no fee to enter and nominations close on May 31, 2025. If you are an immigrant entrepreneur or know an entrepreneur who excels in his or her field, please fill out a short nomination form here.

Save the date for the awards ceremony on Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at The Pines Manor, Edison, NJ.

“The New Jersey Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards were created over a decade ago to highlight the social and economic contributions of New Jersey's immigrants to communities throughout the state and celebrate the important role of immigrants to today's economy,” said Katherine Kish, Executive Director of Einstein’s Alley and one of the founders of the Coalition. “The nominees and honorees represent small mom and pop businesses as well as large corporations; ranging from high-tech firms to professional service providers, from manufacturing operations to restaurants and financial institutions. Combined, they employ hundreds of people and do billions in sales.”

Last year’s winner of the 2024 Immigrant Entrepreneur of the Year Award was Jordan Hu, from Taiwan and Founder and CEO of RiskVal Financial Solutions. The 2024 Lifetime Achievement winner Dieter Weissenrieder, is founder and CEO of the Weiss-Aug Group a leader in precision metal stamping with 700 employees. The 2024 Growth Award winner was Leo Alquiros, owner, and head chef at Tropical Hut Philippine Cuisine with six restaurant and store locations in NJ.

About the NJ Business Immigration Coalition 

The NJ Business Immigration Coalition is a broad-based coalition of New Jersey chambers, associations and organizations, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce, Diversity Dynamics, Einstein’s Alley, Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce, NJBIA, New Jersey Chinese-American Chamber of Commerce, and the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. The Coalition promotes sensible immigration reform that supports economic growth, provides New Jersey companies with both the high-skilled and low-skilled talent they need, and allows the integration of immigrants into our economy as consumers, workers, entrepreneurs and citizens.

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Media contact:

Katherine Kish

609-658-2468

kkish@einsteinsalley.org