Virginia Bauer

Bauer is in her current position at GTMB, a security technology company, since 2010. Previously, she was SVP of Covenant House International, Secretary of Commerce for the State of New Jersey, and director of the New Jersey Lottery Commission. Virginia S. Bauer was appointed to the Board of Commissioners in June 2007 by Governor Corzine. Ms. Bauer is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Gold-Type Business Machines, Inc. (GTBM) a security technologies firm. Previously, Ms. Bauer was the Senior Vice President of Development at the Covenant House in New York City, the nation’s largest adolescent care agency serving homeless, runaway and at-risk youth. Ms. Bauer served as CEO and Secretary of the New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth & Tourism Commission from December 2004 to July 2007. She also served from 2005-2008 as Vice Chairperson of the Fort Monmouth Economic Redevelopment Authority, leading the state’s effort to develop a revitalization plan for the 1,600-acre military facility. Ms. Bauer is the former Director of the New Jersey Lottery, where under her leadership, the agency achieved a $2.2 billion sales year in Fiscal 2004, the Lottery’s best sales year ever. Ms. Bauer is a former financial planning and account management executive with Merrill Lynch from 1979-1985. Ms. Bauer, a widow of a New Jersey victim of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, has been a key activist on behalf of the families of the 9/11 victims, after her husband David, a Cantor Fitzgerald employee, was killed in the World Trade Center.