FINANCIAL SERVICES
Gina Jones has joined the senior leadership team at Northeast Credit Union as vice president of product. She previously held the positions of vice president, strategy and vice president, operational delivery for Partner’s Federal Credit Union in Orlando, Fla.
Bangor Savings Bank has recently welcomed Mark Ranieri to the firm as a mortgage loan officer, working out of the Bank’s Manchester branch. He brings over 17 years of experience to the role, most recently as a senior loan originator with Waterstone Mortgage Corp.
Bank of New Hampshire has hired Jannette Thompson as the Moultonborough branch’s assistant vice president, banking office manager.
Bill Stevens of Hooksett, president and owner of Harvey Construction Corp., has been named to the board of directors of St. Mary’s Bank. Currently serving on the Catholic Medical Center cabinet, Stevens is a member of the Manchester Country Club Finance Committee and NH Associated General Contractors Building and PAC Committee.
Ledyard Financial Advisors has hired Kathy LeClair as senior vice president and director of its private banking division. She has over 40 years of banking experience in the southern New Hampshire and Boston markets, including over 25 years with TD Bank. Also joining the firm is Ela Feaster, who will serve as one of Ledyard’s private banking relationship managers. With 17 years in the field, Feaster also comes from TD Bank, most recently as the Concord branch manager as well as the branch manager for Tilton.
ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
Jen Graham of Hudson has joined Cookson Communications, Manchester, as an account manager. She has nearly 30 years of experience as a marketing and communications professional, including at Market-Reach, the Palace Theatre, Comcast Spotlight and EVR Advertising. Graham is the firm’s fourth new hire in four months.
CONSTRUCTION
Work has begun on The Derryfield School’s new dining facility. Eckman Construction of Bedford is handling the work to build The Commons, provide a 12,000-square-foot addition featuring a dining area with seating for over 300, an open servery with food stations, a pizza oven, a commercial kitchen that will house a wide range of commercial cooking equipment and an auxiliary dish room. The design-build project team includes Banwell Architects, TFMoran and W.V. Engineering Associates.
BUSINESS AND CONSUMER SERVICES
Travel Weekly, a B2B travel industry news outlet, has awarded Lebanon-based Global Rescue, a provider of medical, security, evacuation and travel risk management services, four 2022 Magellan Awards for its travel services: a Magellan Gold award for its GRIDSM Medical and Security Mobile app, which provides medical, security and other essential information to travelers; another Gold award for its Travel Intelligence Center, a traveler-friendly online resource that tracks worldwide travel risk and health and safety information; Magellan Silver award for its “Better than Travel Insurance” online paid media campaign; and another Silver award for its social media initiative to increase travel-oriented followers and promote engagement across the company’s social media platforms.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Michael Skelton, president and CEO of the Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire, has been appointed to the New Hampshire Advisory Council of the New England Legal Foundation, a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to addressing policy and constitutional concerns related to free enterprise.
ENGINEERING
The engineering firm of TFMoran Inc. has announced two recent hires. Engineer Jim Robinson has joined the firm as a civil project manager in the Bedford office, and Benjamin Krisik has joined TFMoran as a survey technician, also in the Bedford office.
GOVERNMENT
Brian Wilson has been confirmed by the Executive Council as the new director of the NH Division of Parks and Recreation. He has previous recreation industry experience, including as Seacoast region supervisor for the division and as a recreation program supervisor in Dover. He succeeds Phil Bryce, who retired earlier this year after serving as director of NH State Parks for a decade.
Portsmouth-based benefits administrator FedPoint has been named the winner of a competitive bid awarded to provide enrollment and premium administration services for BENEFEDS, an online benefits marketplace through which eligible members of the federal civilian workforce and military shop for, enroll in, and pay for voluntary benefits, including dental and vision plans offered by 17 different insurers under the Federal Dental and Vision Insurance Program. FedPoint is the incumbent contractor, and the extension runs through 2026.
HEALTHCARE
Granite VNA has named Kris Green vice president of hospice, overseeing operational management of the agency’s hospice services throughout 82 New Hampshire communities and Hospice House in Concord. Previously, she spent 31 years with Concord Hospital and Concord Hospital Medical Group, most recently serving as administrator of cardiovascular services at Concord Hospital after serving as director of surgical services.
Circuit Court Judge Clifford R. Kinghorn has been named the new chair of Solution-Health’s board of trustees. In addition, Bobbie Bagley, Nashua’s director of public health and community services, and Joseph Leahy, associate vice president of emergency medicine at Southern New Hampshire Health, have been added to the board.
Parkland Medical Center has broken ground on its new freestanding emergency room in Plaistow. Located at 26 Plaistow Road, the new ER is a nearly 10,000-square-foot freestanding facility that it is expected to open in spring 2023.
TECHNOLOGY
Newforma of Manchester, a provider of project information management software for architects, engineers, contractors and owners, has been named to the Construction Executive list of Top Construction Technology Firms for 2022.
Newforma’s Project Center and ConstructEx are included on this year’s list.
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Nuttin Ordinary, of Peterborough, under its holding company, Clean Simple Foods Inc., has gained approval for their Reg. CF Equity crowdfunding campaign launch, the first New Hampshire company to raise funds via the platform Start-Engine, with stock in Nuttin Ordinary offered directly to the public. Using cashew nuts, Nuttin Ordinary crafts cheese and food using 100 percent plantbased ingredients coupled with natural fermentation. Founded three years ago, Nuttin Ordinary now has an 8,000-square-foot, FDA-approved manufacturing facility.
MEDIA
Business NH magazine has been acquired from Millyard Communications and its owner, Heidi Copeland, by Granite Media Group, a company created by Matt Mowry, longtime editor of the publication, Christin Carignan, its creative director for 16 years, and Nathan Karol, founder and president of Cardinal Consulting in Bethlehem. The acquisition also includes EventsNH. They will be the fifth set of owners in the company’s near 40-year history.
NONPROFITS
The Seacoast Village Project has hired Cari Quater as operations manager. The mission of the Seacoast Village Project is to build a network of older adults working together to help each other out as they grow older in their homes and communities. In her role, Quater will oversee the day-to-day operations of the village, including management of the office at Carey Cottage.
Prior to joining Seacoast Village Project, she served as executive director at the Old Berwick Historical Society.
Jo Porter has joined the newly created NH Center for Justice and Equity as strategic advisor. She is currently director of the Institute for Health Policy and Practice at the University of New Hampshire, where she’s been director for seven years and has been with IHPP since 2007. She also has private sector experience, including program management with Health Dialog Inc., a care management firm. She also previously served as associate director of the NH Health Information Center at UNH and was the NH Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System state coordinator for the NH Department of Health and Human Services.
Seacoast-based nonprofit Step Up Parents recently received a $1,000 corporate sponsorship from KRB Kitchen and Bath Design Center, Stratham.
The organization offers financial assistance to kinship caregivers throughout New Hampshire who have “stepped up” to raise children with parents who struggle with substance use disorder.
The Society for the Protection of NH Forest has presented its Conservationist of the Year Award to Lorin Rydstrom of Hollis in recognition of his longtime career as a founder of Seaboard International Forest Products, his personal dedication to conserving New Hampshire’s working forests and special places, and his leadership in supporting conservation work across the state. In addition, the society has presented its Trish Churchill Volunteer of the Year Award to Dave Heuss of Concord.
Lakes Region Community Developers recently received a $3,000 grant from the Northeast Delta Dental Foundation in support of its Adult Dental Program. It is a cost-share program that helps LRCD’s tenants, most of whom do not have dental insurance, pay for dental services. In 2021, the program provided 27 dental grants to low-income adults. Grants to residents have been for fillings, crowns, root canals, extractions, dentures, X-rays, cleanings and more.
Phillip Bryce of Deering has been elected as a new member of the board of trustees of the Society for the Protection of NH Forests. Bryce previously served on the board in 2010 and 2011 before stepping away to become director of New Hampshire State Parks. The Forest Society board also elected new officers: Drew Kellner of Brookline as chair and William Crangle of Plymouth as vice chair. Treasurer Andrew Smith of Twin Mountain and Secretary Karen Moran of Webster were voted to continue serving in their roles.
Zebra Crossings of Dover, a nonprofit that provides camp experiences for children with chronic medical conditions and their families, has begun a search process for a new executive director. The organization is looking for a replacement for Aric Morrison, who is leaving the job for personal reasons. The goal is to have a new executive director in place by early 2023. For more information, visit zebra-crossings.org/jobs/.
As part of its After School Access Project, UScellular donated $84,450 in wireless hot spots and service to YWCA New Hampshire to help the organization provide learning opportunities and highspeed internet access to local youths.
The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester has named new board officers and welcomed six new members to its board of directors: board chair, Elaine Michaud, Neighborhood & Family Health; vice chair, Michael Reed, Stebbins Commercial Properties; treasurer, Brent Kiley, Rise Private Wealth Management; secretary, Philip Alexakos, Manchester Health Department; and new members Stacy Champey, Manchester School District; Dr. Joohahn Kim, Dartmouth Hitchcock Community Group Practices; Kibar Moussoba, Southern New Hampshire University; Connie Roy-Czyzowski; Leo Simard, St. Mary’s Bank; and Dr. Andrew Watt, Catholic Medical Center.
REAL ESTATE
Penn Lindsay and Chris French have joined Waltham, Mass.-based regional affordable housing developer Dakota Partners as vice president of acquisitions and development for New England and vice president of acquisitions and development for Maryland and Virginia, respectively. Prior to joining Dakota, Lindsay was vice president of development for Wishrock, a developer of affordable housing based in Portland, Maine. French previously was vice president of acquisitions for national affordable housing developer WinnCompanies as well as manager of his own affordable housing firm, CRF Development.
Homeowners in Foothills Estates MHP, Campton, recently purchased their 94-unit manufactured-home park, making it New Hampshire’s 145th resident-owned community (ROC). Using training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH team, homeowners organized and formed in early May. The cooperative negotiated with the park’s owner, Mike Burnham, reached a $4 million purchase price, and finalized the deal on Aug. 31 with a mortgage from the Community Loan Fund.
Atlantic Capital Partners has arranged the sale of a 127,058-square-foot retail building in the Fox Run Mall in Newington that was formerly occupied by Sears. Justin Smith, Chris Peterson, Sam Koonce and Cole Van Gelder of Atlantic Capital represented the buyer and seller in the transaction.
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