RBJ presents the 2025 Power 100

Rochester Business Journal Staff//February 21, 2025//

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We are excited to continue our Power List project with our fourth annual Power 100 list.

Many people who appeared on this list last year are still significant power players in our region and appear here again. But there are several new faces, and we expect to see those additions continue to make a big impact on our community.

As with last year, the mix of industries represented is no surprise.

The health care industry and the nonprofit sector, which are heavily intertwined in Rochester, have faced significant challenges over the past four years and many leaders from these areas appear on this list.

Banking and finance, education, law, manufacturing, technology, and real estate and construction also have a significant presence here and in our local economy.

Over the rest of the year, as we did last year, we will delve deeper into several of these industries — banking and finance, accounting and insurance, health care, law, real estate and construction — with smaller Power Lists that will allow us to highlight more people who are working to make an impact in Rochester.

As with previous Power Lists, rather than tell you about all of these power players’ accomplishments and accolades, we decided to give them a chance to tell you more about themselves through their answers to a few different questions. For anyone who was unable to complete our questionnaire, we put together a small profile.

The Power 100 is presented in alphabetical order; selecting 100 power players was hard enough without trying to rank them. We are optimistic that the people and organizations listed here will play a large role in helping Rochester continue to move forward and grow into the best community it can be. We also look forward to seeing who steps up even more over the next year to earn a spot on the 2025 Power 100.

We know that any endeavor such as this is sure to generate lots of opinions, and not everyone will agree with our choices. I welcome any feedback you have at . You can also make suggestions for people to appear on next year’s Power 100 or any of our future Power Lists at rbj.net/power-list-recommendation-form/.

Ben Jacobs
Associate Publisher and Editor