SJBiz_20over40_0520_V2FINAL_Layout 1 5 / 21 / 20 2 : 53 PM Page 2 SHAPE SOUTH JERSEY’S BUSINESS LANDSCAPE . Disability Insurance licenses and is currently studying ShaunaLaMaina to become a certified financial planner ( CFP ) . Beyond Financial Advisor , Cornerstone Financial Advisors Inc . work , LaMaina is an avid sports and fitness enthusiast , active in both field hockey and CrossFit training . She AGE : 23 also earned her competitive racing license for the Sports Car Club of America in May 2019 . Years in the industry : 2 What are you most passionate about when it LaMaina has been a familiar face at Cornerstone Finan - comes to your career ? cial Advisors Inc . from a young age , choosing to follow “ That’s easy and maybe a bit cliché , yet I am most e in the footsteps of her father and founder , Michael J . passionate about the opportunity to help people and LaMaina — so , it’s in her blood . LaMaina thrives in her do so in one of the most important aspects of their role and her skilled acumen is matched with a commit - lives . When planning , I enjoy taking the time individ - ment to service . She is hands on and responsible for uals and businesses need , answering their questions money management , retirement planning and asset al - and seeing through their eyes . Every client is differ - location . She has her Series 7 , Series 6 , Series 63 , and ent and their uniqueness makes the work challenging Series 65 held through LPL Financial and Life , Health & and highly rewarding . ” and recognitions , including as Best Company for IT DavidSuleski Support four years in a row . Suleski , who holds an President , # TechStarters MBA from Stockton University , is an active member of the community , including the Rotary Club , AGE : 39 Moorestown Business Association and the Camden County Chamber of Commerce . His involvement ex - Years in the industry : 25 pands beyond business , as he coaches youth commu - nity basketball and baseball teams . Founded in 2010 , # TechStarters has grown to be - What lessons have you learned along the way ? come one of the most reliable single - source providers e “ A person’s character is everything , always hire char - of IT management , cloud support and Web manage - acter first . If you insist on micromanaging , know that ment services in South Jersey . Suleski’s company is a your business will never grow past the ceiling which certified partner with Microsoft , Google , Watch - requires you being present . Create processes , invest guard , Dell and other well - known technology brands , and trust those you’ve hired to develop the business . ” and its efforts have helped earn # TechStarters awards and supports numerous local nonprofits . DrewPolin What has been one of the biggest lessons CEO , OpDecision you’ve learned along the way ? “ Create and nurture relationships . Up until the COVID - AGE : 39 19 pandemic , I spent almost every single week of my ca - reer meeting someone new over a meal or a cup of Years in the industry : 17 coffee . At the age of 39 , I have over 1,000 people I could reach out to right now who would reply back Polin has a long history of entrepreneurship , having dis - because I took the time to sit down and meet them played the courage to turn his professional dreams into e face to face , or in today’s reality via video conferenc - reality ever since graduating from Penn State Univer - ing . Taking the time to make that personal connec - sity . Among the many ventures he has founded is Glob - tion , learn about someone else personally , profession - al East Communications , which eventually rebranded ally , following up with them and genuinely caring is as OpDecision , a leading provider of corporate wire - a big part of what has enriched me with lots of good less expense management services . A married father friends , colleagues and business contacts . ” of two daughters , Polin also believes in philanthropy this case . She is the mother to a 1 - year - old daughter , NeelimaVanguri who is her absolute greatest joy in life . Attorney , Sidney L . Gold & Associates What has been one of the biggest lessons you’ve learned along the way ? AGE : 36 “ One of the biggest lessons I have learned is that things don’t always work out as you plan them to , but Years in the industry : 11 if you lean in to the new reality , great things can hap - pen . I did not graduate from law school knowing that Vanguri is an attorney who has specialized in the fields I would have a career in employment law . … I em - of employment discrimination and civil rights law for e braced my new life at my new firm , and realized how the past 10 years . She has had the great pleasure of fulfilling it is to protect peoples ’ civil rights . I certainly assisting many clients who have faced discrimination never imagined that I would have the ability to ex - in the workplace in seeking justice . In 2017 , Vanguri’s pand civil rights , but once I saw a glimmer of that pos - work in representing the plaintiff in the case of Blatt v . sibility , I leaned in to that opportunity full throttle as Cabela’s led to a landmark expansion of the civil rights well . Basically , what started as a very stressful and available to transgender employees in the workplace . frightening time in my life has led to some of the best In 2018 , Vanguri was awarded The Legal Intelli - gifts I could have ever imagined . ” gencer’s Attorney of the Year award for her work on SouthJerseyBiz.net | VOLUME 10 ISSUE 5 | SOUTH JERSEY BIZ | 19