| Stewart Krentzman | |
| Birth Date: | 1951 |
| Employer: | Unilever Oki Electric |
Stewart Krentzman (born 1951) is an American academic and business executive who serves as an adjunct professor at the New York University Stern School of Business.[1] Previously, he served as the president and chief executive officer of Oki Data Americas, Inc. and a member of the board of directors of Oki Data Corporation from 2003 to 2010.[2] [3]
Krentzman was born in 1951. He earned a BA in psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1973 and an MA in human resources from The New School in 1977.[1]
Krentzman began his career at Unilever, where he served as director of marketing for Lipton tea brands, for Wish-Bone condiments and Sunkist, Nintendo, Disney, and Warner Bros fruit snacks.[1] [4] He also developed the national sales strategy for Equal, a sugar substitute.[1]
In 1997, Krentzman joined Oki Data Americas, Inc., in Mount Laurel, New Jersey as a vice president of inkjet printers division.[5] In 2001, he became the senior vice president of sales and marketing and a year later he was appointed as the chief operating officer of the company.[6] [7] From 2003 until 2010, Krentzman was the president and chief executive officer of the company. He was named to the "Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology" in 2009 by CRN Magazine.[8] [9] He served as a board director of Oki Data Corporation in Tokyo, Japan.[10]
Later in his career, Krentzman developed an expansion strategy for the healthcare segment at the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center.[1] [11] Additionally, he worked on a project exploring implementing a concierge medicine model in the United Arab Emirates.[1]
Since 2009, Krentzman is the president of The BBQ Cleaner, LLC in Hackensack, New Jersey, with 298 locations across the United States and Canada.[5]
In 2017, Krentzman co-founded the New Jersey Friends of Memorial Sloan Kettering and established Survival+ for Schools, Inc. in October 2023, a non-profit organization focused on addressing school violence.[5] [12]
Krentzman has been a member of the Board of Trustees at Fairleigh Dickinson University since 2008.[5] [13] He is also a member of Advisory Council of Studio Samuel, an organization that creates pathways for girls in Ethiopia[14]