Mimi FelicianoÂ
Founder and CEO – FEM Real Estate LLC | Connect for Freedom
Mimi is the Founder and CEO of Connect for Freedom, a non-profit opened in 2023, whose mission is to keep communities safe by providing human trafficking awareness and online safety information to education stakeholders in K-12 schools and communities for the prevention of human trafficking and online enticement.
Mimi Feliciano is the Co-Founder and CEO of FEM Real Estate, a real estate investment company based in Montville, New Jersey which develops, owns and manages commercial real estate nationwide. She most recently completed her passion project, South Beach at Long Branch, in 2020, receiving 39 awards for an ultra-contemporary oceanfront 42-unit condominium development that introduces a luxurious live, work and play lifestyle to the Jersey Shore.
Entrepreneurship has been a continuing trend in Mimi’s career. At age 19, she became a partner of a health club and banquet facility, which she managed for 14 years with great membership success. She then spent 12 years as the Owner and CEO of Lincoln Park Healthcare, the largest nursing home complex in New Jersey. Mimi took over and expanded this second-generation family business by building JDT Medical Rehab & JDT Medical Villa, two visionary state-of-the-art buildings for sub-acute, short-term care within a luxury, hotel-like environment. Subsequently, Mimi and her husband invested in residential real estate, acquiring and managing apartment units.
Mimi’s affiliations include The Global Center on Human Trafficking at Â鶹´«Ã½ÔÚÏß, Senior Advisor; The Mimi & Edwin Feliciano School of Business, Board Member; Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship, Board Member; and Federal Homeland Security Foundation, Board Member.
Awards and Honors: BINJE Top 100 Women in Business, 2026; ROI NJ Influencers Women in Business 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025; NJ Biz In the Lead Multi-Generational Leader 2024; NJ Biz Power 100 List 2024; Women of Influence Executives Power List 2021; NJ BIZ Real Estate Power List 2020; NJ BIZ Top 50 CRE Power List 2019; New Jersey Business Hall of Fame Laureate 2016; Endowed the Mimi & Edwin Feliciano Healing Garden at Chilton Memorial Hospital 2016; Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs 2014; Best 50 Women in Business, NJ BIZ 2014; Honoree For Chilton Memorial Hospital Gala 2013; Recipient of Â鶹´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Carpe Diem Award 2012