FINANCIAL SERVICES
Ledyard National Bank has named Jeff Gendron as senior vice president, senior portfolio manager and investment strategist. Prior to joining Ledyard, Gendron researched investments and managed portfolios at The Colony Group and Harvest Capital Management and before that conducted manager due diligence research for the broker-dealer division of Lincoln Financial Group and served in various roles at the NH Retirement System. In addition, Timothy Sumner has joined Ledyard Financial Advisors as a senior financial consultant and registered representative of Infinex Investments Inc.
Robert Bonfiglio and Brent Kiley, both private wealth advisors and co-founders of Rise Private Wealth Management, Bedford, have been named to Barron’s magazine’s list of the Top 1,200 Financial Advisors, which recognizes the outstanding financial advisors who represent the highest levels of ethical standards, professionalism and success in the business.
Bank of New Hampshire has added Patrick Hostetter to its team as a mortgage loan officer serving the southern region of New Hampshire. Hostetter began his lending career in commercial agriculture lending and then transitioned to rural home and small farm lending. He will work out of the bank’s Bedford office.
Laura Johnson of Norwood, Mass., has joined Bangor Savings Bank as senior vice president, director of mortgage and consumer lending. With over 30 years of financial services leadership, she was previously employed at HarborOne Bank and Centreville Bank, where she managed strategy and direction for the residential and consumer lending programs. Additionally, Tricia Duchesneau, of Windham, Maine, has been promoted to senior vice president and director of consumer banking. She has been with the bank for 16 years, most recently as a regional market manager.
Tina Brown of Milford has been promoted to vice president, business development officer at Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. She joined the bank in 2018 as assistant vice president, branch relationship manager, and eventually became assistant vice president, business development officer.
Bank of New Hampshire has added Christine Heath to the Hillsborough office team as assistant vice president, mortgage loan officer. The bank has also added Matthew Gallant to the retail lending team in the Dover office as vice president, retail lending sales manager.
CONSTRUCTION
US LBM, an Illinoisbased distributor of specialty building materials, has named Jannette Valdez of Nashua, inside sales representative at US LBM’s Wallboard Supply Company in Londonderry, its 2022 Humanitarian Award recipient for her community involvement and charitable work. She also is the recipient of a $10,000 grant from the US LBM Foundation, which she has elected to be awarded to the Nashua Police Athletic League.
Pittsfield, Mainebased construction firm Cianbro has announced the acquisition of R.C. Stevens Construction Company, a Winter Garden, Fla.-based firm. Tim Keating, president of R.C. Stevens, will remain active and continue to lead the R.C. Stevens organization as president.
AGRICULTURE
The NH Tree Farm Program has named Ann and Marc Davis New Hampshire’s 2022 Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year. Straddling Springfield and Wilmot, the Davises’ 500-acre tree farm, Woods Without Gile, is a working forest with the goal of expanding habitat diversity for wildlife.
GOVERNMENT
Angela Strozewski, executive vice president and senior operations officer at NH Mutual Bancorp, has been appointed to the Governor’s Commission on cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets. The commission is charged with reviewing the current status of the cryptocurrency and the digital asset industry and related industries, reviewing the status of federal and state laws regulating digital assets and their effectiveness and making recommendations.
Michael Garrity has been appointed as the new director of communications for the NH Department of Justice. Garrity, who has 20 years of journalism and media relations experience, spent two years as a broadcast journalist with WMUR-TV. He succeeds Kate Giaquinto, who left the job last fall to serve as director of communications for Republican Congressman David B. McKinley of West Virginia.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Millyard Bank, the area’s newest community bank, has signed on as presenting sponsor of the Hollis-Brookline Rotary Club’s 2022 Fast 5K road race, which is scheduled for Thursday, June 9, at 6:30 p.m. The event attracts over 1,000 runners from throughout the region to chase a personal best time.
Resilient Buildings Group, Concord, recently purchased tax credits to support the Belknap Economic Development Council’s economic development initiatives in the county.
HEALTHCARE
Joan Welch has been named chief financial officer at Parkland Medical Center, Derry. Welch previously worked at the hospital’s HCA Healthcare sister facility Portsmouth Regional Hospital, where she was the associate chief financial officer.
Concord-based Granite VNA will honor Helen Rautenberg of Wolfeboro, family support specialist at the agency, with the Kay Sidway Award at the agency’s annual Passion for Caring event, which will be held May 4, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at Belknap Mill in Laconia. The award recognizes an individual who has devoted themselves to the education, nurturing, and wellbeing of families in central New Hampshire. For more information about the event, visit granitevna.org/passionforcaring.
Elliot Hospital has received the highest designation as a Gold Safe Sleep Hospital from the National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program, an organization created by Cribs for Kids. The designation recognizes the hospital’s commitment to best practices and education on infant safe sleep.
MEDIA WMUR has announced plans to expand its news offerings to viewers by adding a 4 p.m. newscast in June, a replacement for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” which is in its final season and concludes original episodes in May. WMUR has also hired two new anchors as a part of this expansion. Steve Bottari from Hearst Television sister station WMTW in Portland/Auburn, Maine, will join the WMUR team as an anchor/reporter. Marissa Tansino will also be on the team, joining WMUR from WFMY in Greensboro, N.C.
REAL ESTATE
The former Chuck Roast Equipment manufacturing plant in Conway has been sold, previous owner Chuck Henderson has announced. Known as the Chuck Roast Venture Center, the facility was purchased April 1 by Pratap Bhandari of North Conway and Cape Cod, Mass., according to The Conway Daily Sun. Bhandari plans to continue to run it as the Odell Hill Office Park. Listing broker was Jim Doucette of Jim Doucette Real Estate of Conway and representing the buyer was Charlie Monroe of Pinkham Realty of North Conway.
LAW
Attorneys Lyndsay Robinson and Morgan Eastman have joined the Family Law Group at Shaheen & Gordon. Robinson will be based in the firm’s Nashua location and Eastman will be based in Concord. Robinson previously was an associate at a firm in Nashua, where she represented families in complex divorce and parenting matters. Eastman gained experience at the Manchester Office of the City Solicitor, where she worked on cases in the domestic violence, criminal and civil units.
The law firm of McLane Middleton has announced that Eric A. Chojnicki has joined the firm as head of trust services, responsible for overseeing the operational, financial and client service functions of the firm’s Trust Services Group. Prior to joining the firm, Chojnicki served as president of the Trust and Wealth Management Department at Midland States Bank in Illinois and was president of Midland Trust Company.
EDUCATION
Nashua Community College’s Precision Manufacturing Program has received full program accreditation from the National Institute for Metalworking Skills, the only nationally recognized distinction for excellence in manufacturing based on industry-approved standards.
NONPROFITS
The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice, Concord, has announced that Gabrielle Gallant, a senior at Windham High School, has received the top award for the second annual Activist Artist Scholarship competition. Ms. Gallant’s winning essay recounts the story of her ballet teacher, who choreographed an original ballet piece titled, “A Child’s View of the Holocaust,” which has been performed by the Londonderry Dance Academy for more than three decades. Ms. Gallant will receive a $5,000 scholarship to be paid to Marist College, which she will attend starting this fall at its Florence, Italy, campus. The Foundation also awarded two runnerup prizes of $2,500 each to Kayla Schroyer of St. Paul’s School and Madelyn Allen of Bow High School.
International testing, inspection and certification (TIC) company TÜV SÜD of Munich, Germany, and ioMosaic, a Salem, NH-based provider of process safety solutions, formed a strategic alliance in risk management and process safety services that they say will deliver a wider range of services as well as additional digital applications, substantially increased laboratory capacity, broader training offers and added training expertise.
In support of the International Committee of the Red Cross for Ukraine, the Granite State Indoor Range and Gun Shop, Hudson, held two raffles that raised over $20,000 through the support of members and patrons. Additionally, GSR has committed all proceeds from select in-store merchandise to be donated to the ICRC, which has helped deliver over 500 tons of medical supplies, food and relief items to citizens in Ukraine.
Sheehan Phinney shareholder Kenneth A. Viscarello was recently honored with affordable housing nonprofit CATCH Neighborhood Housing’s Helen M. Greene Visionary Award. The award recognizes an individual or organization whose investment in the community has impacted the issue of housing in a significant way. Viscarello is chair of Sheehan Phinney’s Affordable Housing Group and has a real estate practice concentrating on development, and represents a number of both for-profit and nonprofit developers throughout New England.
Waypoint is honoring three state representatives with its 2022 Jack Lightfoot Voice for Children award: Patrick Long of Manchester, Kimberly Rice of Hudson and Mary Beth Walz of Bow. The award is given yearly to an individual who has shown commitment to and made an extraordinary impact on the lives of children in New Hampshire. Honorees are selected by the NH Children’s Lobby advocacy committee, which is comprised of child advocates from various organizations across New Hampshire. All three of this year’s honorees have served as chair of the Children and Family Law Committee. Honorees will receive their awards at the Waypoint conference, Face of Change: The New Age of Child Advocacy, scheduled for June 3 at the Grappone Center in Concord.
Manchester-based Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success was awarded a threeyear, $90,000 grant from Point32Health Foundation for its efforts to increase access to healthy food in New Hampshire. ORIS’s mobile market, the Fresh Start Food Cart, is Manchester’s only Double Up Food Bucks Market. It accepts EBT/SNAP benefits and offers incentive programs improving access to fresh, local and healthy food for those experiencing economic uncertainty. Point32Health Foundation is the result of the combination of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and Tufts Health Plan Foundation.
TECHNOLOGY
Portland, Maine-based Systems Engineering has earned Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, or CMMC, registered provider organization status. The designation is required to provide guidance to defense contractors and subcontractors. Expansia, a Nashuabased consulting firm, has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract for developing the prototype for the AGORA Digital Marketplace for Advanced Manufacturing, a program led by the U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office. Expansia has been charged with developing, integrating, testing and evaluating the AGORA prototype consolidating and optimizing formerly disparate supply chain management systems and legacy databases with products life cycle management tools and workflows.
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