ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
The UNH Digital Marketing Conference will be held form 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, May 14, featuring industry leaders and regional experts discussing the latest tools and trends in digital marketing. Presented by UNH Professional Development & Training, the conference will include speakers from Puma and the Boston Celtics. Early bird registration is $99 through April 16 and $199 afterward. For more information, visit training.unh.edu/UNHDMC2021.
HEALTHCARE
Rochester-based Cornerstone VNA has announced expansion of its service area to Stratham, Hampton, North Hampton, Hampton Falls and Seabrook.
With the addition, Cornerstone now offers home care, hospice, palliative, private duty and community services to over 40 towns in New Hampshire and Maine.
The Phoenix, a Boston-based nonprofit organization that fosters a supportive, sober community for individuals recovering from substance use, has expanded into New Hampshire. The organization offers free in-person programs leveraging donated gym space, outdoor sites and volunteers to provide critical support and connection to individuals in recovery from substance use. Programs will initially be available in the Seacoast, Manchester, Concord and Nashua areas with further expansion planned throughout the state.
For more information, visit thephoenix.org/find-a-class.
Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire has partnered with VNA Health System of Northern New England to offer registered nurse graduates a oneyear nurse residency program aimed at promoting competency and role transition from student to professional nurse.
Jeanna Rodriguez of Nashua has been named director of sales and marketing of Bowman Place, a new nonprofit senior living community in Bedford. Rodriguez has been working in senior living sales and marketing for the past five years.
National complex rehab mobility provider Numotion has opened its first location in New Hampshire at 100 Cahill Ave., Suite D, Manchester. The site is staffed by three assistive technology professionals and additional dedicated service and support teams.
EDUCATION
The University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law has been named as having the fourth-best intellectual property program in the nation in the 2022 US News & World Report rankings. It was the highest ranking the school has earned in over a decade. The school also remains in the top 100 law schools, ranking 88th overall. UNH Franklin Pierce has ranked in the top 10 for intellectual property since the US News & World Report specialty rankings began 30 years ago.
ENGINEERING
Cheryl Smith has joined TFMoran as office manager for the Seacoast Division in Portsmouth. She has over 30 years of experience in business and operations management, having held various managerial positions for Seacoast area businesses.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Kate Amrol of Concord has joined the New Hampshire Auto Dealers Association as workforce development coordinator for the NHADA Education Foundation. She previously worked as program coordinator at the Concord Regional Technical Center, working to build awareness of the resources and opportunities available through career and technical education.
Jennifer Landon has been promoted to vice president of education and workforce development at the Associated Builders and Contractors New Hampshire/Vermont Chapter. Landon, who has been with the ABC since 2017, was previously director of education and workforce development. In her new role, Landon will also serve as advisor for the Construction Sector Partnership Initiative, which helps businesses address their workforce needs and helps workers prepare for and advance in careers in construction.
LAW
Eli Leino, an attorney who specializes in land use and real estate issues, has joined Primmer Piper Eggleston and Cramer’s Manchester office. Prior to joining Primmer, Leino worked for a commercial and residential real estate developer in New England.
REAL ESTATE
Homeowners in Paradise Ridge Mobile Home Park, Raymond, have purchased a 40-unit manufacturedhome park, making it New Hampshire’s 135th resident-owned community, or ROC. Using training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH program, homeowners organized and formed Paradise Ridge Cooperative last September and acquired the park for $2 million, with financing from Cambridge Trust and the Community Loan Fund. Paradise Ridge Cooperative is Rockingham County’s 23rd ROC. Those communities contain 1,458 affordable homes.
Nine industrial buildings in Massachusetts and New Hampshire totaling 700,000 square feet have been sold Boston-based real estate investment firm BentallGreenOak. The nine-building portfolio includes two buildings in Londonderry at 34A and 34B Londonderry Road, as well as four buildings in Wilmington, Mass., and three in Billerica, Mass. A CBRE team led by Chris Skeffington and Scott Dragos represented the seller, Novaya Real Estate Ventures, and also procured the buyer. At the time of sale, the portfolio was 94% leased to a diverse roster of tenants including Symbotic, Conformis, Locus Robotics and Lindenmeyr Munroe, among others.
Deanna Caron of Stebbins Commercial Properties has announced the sale of the former Howes Pharmacy building at 39 Main Street, Goffstown, for $275,000.
The 2,016-square-foot building was sold to Richard Thomas. Thomas, a CPA whose office is currently located at 20 Main Street, plans to move to the new location this summer.
The 172-acre, nine-hole Lakeview Golf Club in Belmont has been sold by Sperandio Trust to Stone Bluff Property Holdings LLC of Northfield. Joseph Sullo, John Goodhue and Alan Silverberg of Roche Realty Group, Meredith, represented the owner in the transaction. Steve Mardis of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Verani Realty represented the buyer. The course features 3,110 yards of public fairways and greens — the large remainder of roughly 100 undeveloped acres remain available for future expansion or development, according to the firm.
Maggie Braxton of Roche Realty Group’s Meredith office recently represented Lynn Rainen and Mark Koester, owners of the Nutmeg Inn in Meredith, in the sale of the inn to Kevin and Karen Lasella of Goffstown. The Lasellas were represented by Regina Galasso of Keller Williams Lakes & Mountains. The inn, which sits on seven acres, is included in the New Hampshire Registry of Historic Places.
BUSINESS SERVICES
LUX Life Magazine, a U.K.-based premium lifestyle publication, named Lebanon-based Global Rescue winner as the “Best Travel Risk Management Solutions Organization-USA” in the magazine’s fifth annual Travel & Tourism Awards. Global Rescue offers integrated medical, security, travel risk and crisis management services around the world, delivered by our teams of critical care paramedics, physicians, nurses and military special operations veterans.
CONSTRUCTION
Jake Bordeau has been hired as a project manager at Bonnette Page & Stone in Laconia, and Jamie Stewart has been hired as a project superintendent. Bordeau will oversee project scheduling, submittals, owner interactions and subcontractor coordination. Stewart’s job is to oversee site safety, coordinate subcontractors into the site schedule, take lead on quality control and communicate daily with building administrators.
North Branch Construction has announced the promotion of three field employees: Gregg Vallee, who has been with the firm since 2014, has been promoted from master carpenter to assistant superintendent; Kevin Miller, who joined the company in 2020, has been promoted from lead carpenter to assistant superintendent; and Jeremy Jefferson, a lead carpenter since 2013, has been promoted to foreman.
NONPROFITS
Bellwether Community Credit Union employees recently donated $1,200 to Families in Transition-New Horizons to help families and individuals struggling with homelessness and food insecurity. Spaulding Academy & Family, Northfield, has expanded its medical team with the promotion of nurse practitioner Carolyn Brown to primary care provider and the hiring of registered nurse Chandra Miller as medical director and registered nurse Nicholas Lefebvre as health services director.
Some 44 nonprofits in New Hampshire and Maine have been given Bangor Savings Bank Foundation’s 2021 Community Matters More grants. The organizations were selected for grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 based on votes by Bangor Savings customers.
In New Hampshire, grants were presented to: Tri-County Community Action Program; Coos County Family Health Services; Boys and Girls Clubs of the North Country; Great North Woods Center for the Arts; Make-A-Wish New Hampshire; YWCA New Hampshire; Hillsborough District Food Pantry; Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter; Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Hampshire; Child Advocacy Center; Great Bay Services; Zebra Crossings; Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital; and Webster House.
The New Hampshire Women’s Foundation has announced three personnel changes: Communications specialist Crystal Paradis, founder of Feminist Oasis, has been hired as director of strategic communications and community engagement; Karen Tebbenhoff, the foundation’s director of communications and events, is transitioning to an expanded role as director of events and operations; and Dow Drukker has been hired as a research fellow.
The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts has begun accepting applications for seven fiscal year 2022 grant programs: arts for community engagement; artist entrepreneurial; arts in health, folklife and traditional arts projects; traditional arts apprenticeships; public value partnerships; and youth arts projects. For more information, visit nh.gov/nharts.
The Rochester Rotary has awarded a $1,500 grant to the Granite YMCA to help provide programs that help children address and mange adverse childhood experiences to improve education and social success for youth.
Step Up Parents has received $5,000 from the Meredith Village Savings Bank Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to support the individualized needs of kinship families in the Lakes Region that are raising the children of parents with substance use disorder.
NHTrust has purchased $20,000 in tax credits and provided a $5,000 direct contribution in support of The Colonial Performing Arts Center in Keene’s renovations of The Colonial Performing Art Center’s historic theatre.
NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire has been named a recipient of the 15th annual Housing For Everyone grant program from the TD Charitable Foundation. The grant will help the nonprofit organization ensure the financial stability of tenants of the organization’s affordable rental properties during the pandemic.
Laconia resident Corey Hoyt, marketing manager at Mainstay Technologies, and Newmarket resident Richard Parsons, senior government relations coordinator for RYP Granite Strategies, have joined the board of directors of Stay Work Play, a nonprofit whose mission is to attract and retain more young people in New Hampshire. Anthony Naro, an attorney with Bernazzani Law firm in Nashua and formerly with the New Hampshire Public Defender’s office, has joined the board of directors of New Hampshire Drug Courts, a statewide charitable organization that provides financial and educational support to participants of drug courts, an alternative sentencing program operating in 10 New Hampshire Superior Courts.
Community Access Television, which serves the Vermont towns of Hartford, Hartland and Norwich as well as Hanover in New Hampshire, has hired Samantha Davidson Green as its new executive director. Davidson Green’s background includes independent filmmaking, public television program development, teaching in the classroom at the middle school, high school and college level and as a director and producer in the performing arts in the Upper Valley.
TRANSPORTATION
Merchants Fleet, Hooksett, has been named to the 2021 CIO 100 by IDG’s CIO magazine. The CIO 100 recognize 100 organizations that are using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers.
Executives from the winning companies will be recognized at the virtual CIO 100 Symposium & Awards CIO 100 Symposium & Awards in August.
PUBLIC POLICY
Matthew Bartlett and Scott Merrick have launched Darby Field Advisors, a bipartisan public affairs firm based in Nashua with operations in Washington, D.C. Matthew co-founded Darby Field Advisors after his time serving at the U.S. Department of State. Bartlett most recently worked at the State Department in the Trump Administration, and before that served for years on staff for former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH. Merrick most recently was a senior advisor to the New Hampshire Biden for President and before that was New Hampshire state director for Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s primary presidential campaign. He also served for more than seven years in U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s office as deputy state director.
SPORTS
Montcalm Golf Club in Enfield has been named the new home golf course of the Dartmouth College men’s and women’s golf teams in a twoyear partnership that provides the Big Green program access to practice and play at the course. The change was made following the closing last July of the Hanover Country Club.
TECHNOLOGY
Lebanon-based Integrity Industrial Inkjet Integration Inc. has announced a partnership with Suss Micro-Tec, a German supplier of equipment for the semiconductor industry. Under the partnership, Integrity Industrial will distribute of Suss MicroTec’s PiXDRO LP50, a desktop R&D inkjet printer for a variety of printing applications. The PiXDRO LP50 is designed for a range of applications, including semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards, graphics, textiles, printed electronics, photovoltaics and in displays, the company said.
Yahyn, a Manchesterbased e-commerce wine startup, has brought on two new strategic advisors: Rob Weiss, a television and film producer, screenwriter, actor and director, and Schuyler Hoversten, president at Dynamic Ticketing Partners and chief revenue officer at LiveXLive. Pierre Rodgers, CEO and founder of Yahyn, said two advisors will help support his vision of “growing Yahyn not only into a leading online platform for wine enthusiasts but as a luxury lifestyle brand.”
Laconia-based Orion Entrance Control Inc., a provider of building access solutions, with Xandar Kardian as its North American partner, has released Constellation, a discreet unit that the company says utilizes state-ofthe-art, close-range radar-based sensors that provide accurate, anonymous occupancy and wellness data in real time. Orion makes Xandar Kardian’s digital radar signal processing technology accessible to organizations of all sizes.
Derry-based CoderZ has won a 2021 EdTech Cool Tool Award in the “coding, computer science, engineering solution” category. CoderZ captured top honors in a field of 15 finalists. CoderZ, which was named a Cool Tool Award finalist in the 2019 EdTech Awards, features a gamified learning platform for students interested in STEM through robotics, coding and computer science while fostering college and career skills.
BAE Systems has been awarded contracts to design mechanisms for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that protect emerging wideband receivers from interference, enabling their use in contested and congested environments. DARPA awarded two contracts to BAE totaling $5 million to develop wideband adaptive filtering and signal cancellation architectures to safeguard emerging wideband receivers against both external and self-interference.
Portsmouth-based XMReality has unveiled several features for its remote guidance solution. The new Web Guide Station feature enables users seeking remote support to log in through a web browser without downloading and installing any software, the company says. It includes support for a key guiding feature, augmented reality Hands Overlay, the first such webbased solution on the market, according to XMReality.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
NEFCU, the New England Federal Credit Union, is using the Zogo app to provide free financial education for New Hampshire residents 13 and older.
The app, created by Duke University student Bolun Li in January 2019, was designed to engage young adults in their financial futures. Zogo has over 300 short, bite-sized educational modules that allow participants to learn at their own pace. The modules are aligned with the Jump-Start Coalition’s national standards in K-12 personal finance education. Users earn points that can be redeemed for gift certificates from some popular brands like Amazon, Target, Apple, Starbucks and Adidas.
Michael R. Posternak has joined Union Bank as assistant vice president and branch administrator, managing the bank’s 18 branch operations in Vermont and New Hampshire. Prior to joining Union Bank, he worked at Citizens Bank as assistant vice president and branch manager.
Robert Bonfiglio, a private wealth advisor with Ameriprise Financial in Bedford, has been named to the Barron’s list of Top 1,200 Financial Advisors. Savings Bank of Walpole has promoted Samantha Monson to mortgage loan officer. She joined the bank in 2017 as office manager of investment services for SBW Wealth Management, now NHTrust.
Kevin Lasante of Bedford has been named regional underwriting manager at Merchants Insurance Group’s New England Office, succeeding June Mittelmark, who retired March 31.
Meredith Village Savings Bank was recently recognized by the Registry Review as having the top mortgage sales in Carroll Country in 2020.
Savings Bank of Walpole has been recognized as “Top Pandemic Performer” in New Hampshire by Banking Northeast magazine. The ranking is based on the results of a Rivel Banking Benchmarks survey.
The Society of Certified Insurance Counselors (CIC) recently honored Peter R. Milnes, CEO of Optisure Risk Partners, Manchester, for 40 years of committed professional leadership and service. The Society of CIC is a member of the National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research.
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