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Chrissy Buteas serves as President & CEO of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (HINJ).  Founded in 1997, HINJ serves as the trade association for the leading research-based biopharmaceutical and medical technology companies in New Jersey.

Buteas, a seasoned leader, has held significant positions in her career. Before joining HINJ, she served as the Vice President of Government Affairs at Altice (Optimum), a prominent broadband communications and video service provider operating across twenty-one states. She served as the Chief Government Affairs Officer of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA), a role that allowed her to influence policies that affect one million employees of member companies. She also led the NEW JOBS PAC, the State’s largest and most influential ideological business political action committee. 

Before joining NJBIA, Buteas was President and CEO of the Home Care & Hospice Association of New Jersey, which represented New Jersey home health agencies, hospices, and healthcare service firms servicing the state’s Medicare, Medicaid, and private-pay patients. 

She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Middlesex College, Thanexus, Inc. (funeral service cooperative), Northern Board of Junior Achievement, and as Board Chair of the Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey, whose mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. 

She also serves on the boards of Focus NJ, an independent research nonprofit conducting timely, innovative, nonpartisan economic and workforce research, and the South Jersey Technology Park at Rowan University.  

Previously, Buteas served on the Murphy-Oliver Transition 2018 Healthcare team as Vice President of the Capital Impact Group, a public affairs and business development firm that advocates for nonprofit organizations and Fortune 500 companies. She was also a policy specialist at the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.  Buteas is also the former President and current board member of the Women’s Political Caucus of New Jersey, a statewide nonprofit dedicated to advancing women in government. 

Buteas served as a member of the New Jersey Medical Assistance Advisory Council, New Jersey Small Employer Health Benefits Program, as well as the Boards of Associated Member Trust and the New Jersey Mandated Health Benefits Advisory Commission, which responds to requests from the State Legislature to provide independent analysis of the medical, financial and social impacts of proposed health insurance benefit mandates.

In 2022, Buteas received the President’s Award from the Women’s Political Caucus of NJ. In 2021, Buteas was named a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore, NJBIZ’s 2021 Next Generation of Leaders, a Barrier Breaker as part of Jersey’s Best magazine’s Spring issue honoring trailblazing women in the state and recognized on ROI-NJ’s Influencers: Power List for Government Affairs.  In 2018, Buteas was named to NJBIZ’s Best 50 Women in Business list. She was named to NJBIZ’s “40 Under 40” and “Power 50 Health Care” lists in 2017, as well as the 2017 “Insider 100 Policymakers” list by Insider NJ.

Buteas holds an MPA from the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark and a BA from Rowan University. She is also a graduate of Leadership NJ, a leadership development program, and served as a Raimondo Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is also a member of the Eagleton Institute of Politics Alumni Association.