ACCOUNTING
Wipfli has announced recent promotions for Dane Koepke, to principal, and serves as practice director of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central team; and Jason Gagnon to partner in the company’s technology and innovation industry, specializing in tax structuring and consulting services for businesses.
HEALTHCARE
Six dentists in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have been awarded a total of $300,000 by Northeast Delta Dental to support dental loan repayment. In 2022, with the goal of attracting more dentists to northern New England, Northeast Delta Dental began providing $6 million in awards over three years for loan repayments. The program is administered by the Recruitment Center at Bi-State Primary Care Association and is governed by a steering committee with representatives from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Receiving awards in New Hampshire were Core Pediatric Dentistry in Exeter and Montshire Pediatric Dentistry, Keene. The next application cycle opens in Sept. For more information, visit bistaterecruitmentcenter.org/dentists.
The Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation has committed to match up to $50,000 in donations to New London Hospital during its annual Hospital Days celebration to inspire the community to support Hematology-Oncology Infusion Services. Since April, the hospital has raised more than $25,000 for these efforts, and is appealing to the community to assist with the final stretch to help unlock the additional $50,000. Once fulfilled, the match will result in total giving of $100,000 to Hematology-Oncology Infusion Services.
Prime Alternative Treatment Centers of New Hampshire — a nonprofit that operates therapeutic cannabis dispensaries in Chichester and Merrimack — is changing its name to GraniteLeaf Cannabis, with a new website to be launched at Granite-Leaf.com.
Chris Nicolopoulos, who last month stepped down from his post as New Hampshire’s insurance commissioner, has joined Enhance Health as vice president of government affairs. Enhance, based in Florida, is a digital health insurance brokerage and care navigation platform. Nicolopoulos’s tenure as New Hampshire insurance commissioner began in 2020. Before that, he was president and CEO of the NH Association of Insurance Agents and government affairs director at the NH Association of Realtors.
Access Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics recently welcomed Dr. Deborah Pacik to their practice. She specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation with a focus in sports medicine and interventional spine treatments. Pacik is based at the company’s Exeter location.
BUSINESS SERVICES
D’Avanza Clock Repair of Goffstown has been awarded the contract to restore the Seth Thomas tower clock atop Westmoreland Town Hall. The restored clock mechanism will be relocated to the second floor to allow public viewing, while still operating the four clock faces and striking the bell hourly. The clock will still be hand-wound weekly.
CONSTRUCTION
Jewett Construction, Fremont, has completed construction of a 214,400-square-foot, multi-tenant speculative industrial warehouse campus for Davis, a real estate development firm, in Wilmington, Mass. The dual warehouse facility, known as Upton Crossing, is located on a 27-acre site.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Linda Mack has joined Ledyard Financial Advisors, the wealth management division of Ledyard National Bank, as senior vice president, director of client relationships. She has over 20 years’ experience, most recently as a financial support consultant at Cuna Mutual Group.
Jannette “Janna” Thompson has been promoted to assistant vice president, Laconia banking office manager for Bank of New Hampshire. She first joined the bank in 2022, bringing with her more than 15 years of experience.
Kyle Schneck has been promoted to chief lending officer of St. Mary’s Bank, where he will oversee the credit union’s commercial, mortgage, consumer lending and collection transactions.
Northeast Credit Union has hired Sharon Plante as vice president, controller. She previously worked at East Cambridge Savings Bank in Massachusetts. Prior to working in the finance industry, she held senior-level accounting positions for software companies in Massachusetts.
Meredith Village Savings Bank has promoted Traynor Cully to assistant vice president, commercial loan officer, in the bank’s Rochester office. He’s been with MVSB since 2022, with five previous years in various financial services roles. Additionally, the bank has promoted Laura Hilliard to business banking relationship specialist.
GOVERNMENT
Adele Bauman has been named director of the NH State Council on the Arts, where she will focus on grant processes and program services, state and federal compliance, legislative processes and lead council staff. She was nominated by Gov. Chris Sununu after spending 16 years at the NH Department of Health and Human Services.
LAW
Attorneys Seth Greenblott, James O’Rourke and Mary Lynn Roedel of the Greenblott & O’Rourke law firm in Concord have joined Manchester-based Devine Millimet. Greenblott works with businesses in a range of sectors, including banking, manufacturing, and sports and entertainment. O’Rourke’s practice focuses on criminal law and family law, Roedel specializes in estate planning and trust law and probate law. In addition, Devine Millimet has added Stephen Zaharias and Jeffrey Adams, attorneys with a combined 30 years of legal experience, to its team. Zaharias has joined the Litigation Department, and Adams has joined as chair of the Financial Services Litigation Practice Group.
MEDIA
NH Public Radio has hired Leah Todd Lin as its first vice president for audience strategy. As a member of NHPR’s senior leadership, Todd Lin will supervise the digital team, programming team and marketing efforts.
MILITARY
Lt. Col Diontanese Y. Monroe has been named the new commander of the U.S. Army recruiting battalion that’s based at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. A native of Columbus, Ga., she will oversee recruitment operations for both the Army and Army Reserve.
ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
Public relations and strategic communications firm Montagne Powers of Manchester has added three new account coordinators to its team: Hope Lang, Madison Shearns and Gabriella Pais. Lang, of Bedford, is a 2022 graduate of Marist College and later worked as an intern at Shadwell Global Partners. Shearns, of Marlborough, Mass., graduated from James Madison University in 2022 and later worked as an intern at G. Greene Construction in Boston. Pais, of Manchester, graduated from the University of Vermont in 2022 and prior to joining Montagne Powers worked as a public relations intern at High10 Media.
NONPROFITS
The Windham Endowment for Community Advancement has appointed Shelley Walcott of Windham, external communications specialist and senior principal at BAE Systems, to its board of directors. She will also serve on the Windham Endowment’s marketing and communications committee.
The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, recently donated $10,000 to The Capitol Center for the Arts, to help it expand access to delivering arts programming to marginalized members in the community.
The Partnership for Public Health — whose mission is to collaborate with stakeholders and the community at large to improve the public’s health and well-being — was able to purchase an emergency response cargo trailer with the help of an $8,000 contribution from Bank of New Hampshire. The new trailer will allow the Lakes Region Community Emergency Response Team and the Lakes Region Medical Reserve Corps to more efficiently respond to calls across the region.
The NH Electric Co-op Foundation awarded 11 grants in June valued at $56,250 collected through its Round Up program to American Red Cross of Northern New England, Belknap Mill Society, Easterseals New Hampshire, Franconia Soaring Foundation, Franklin Opera House, Jackson Ski Touring Foundation, Mid State Health Center, Mount Washington Valley Adult Day Center, Ossipee Concerned Citizens, Pemi Youth Center and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.
The Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley has named Gail Casey as its new chief operating officer. She previously worked in the Nashua School District, where she expanded afterschool programming and summer school programs for students in Nashua.
The YMCA Allard Center of Goffstown, a branch of The Granite YMCA, recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark completion of its $2.5 million new outdoor aquatic center. The center includes an outdoor, 25-yard, five-lane competitive pool, shallow water teaching “L” off the main pool and a zero-depth splash pad. The facility also features 20 new changing booths on the pool deck.
REAL ESTATE
Lamont, Hanley & Associates, a provider of accounts receivable services to businesses, has leased 17,250 square feet of space at 186 Granite St. in downtown Manchester. Doug Martin of Colliers in Manchester, represented the landlord, Manchester Millyard Realty LLC, and assisted the tenant in the transaction.
Pauline Bennett has been promoted to Northeast regional president by Coldwell Banker Realty. In her new role, Bennett, who previously served as president of Coldwell Banker Realty in New England, oversees 6,564 agents in 94 sales offices across New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island. Combined, these offices brought in a total sales volume of over $23 billion with 35,558 transactions in 2022.
TECHNOLOGY
Right Networks, a cloud-services company serving accounting firms and professionals, has partnered with Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, to offer cloud hosting of its tax and accounting solutions.
CHARITABLE GAMING
The Brook, the charity casino in Seabrook, announced that it donated $3.7 million to New Hampshire charities in the first half of 2023. Since 2019, the casino has now distributed nearly $12 million to local organizations. Among nonprofits supported by the casino were Make-A-Wish New Hampshire, Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Hampshire, Annie’s Angels and Rockingham Nutrition & Meals On Wheels.
Aces & Eights Casino in Hampton Beach recently unveiled its new 14,000-square-foot expansion, housing 92 historical horse racing machines and a dining area overlooking the casino. The historical horse racing games, new to the casino, were unveiled on Aug. 10.
Michael Samaan named first residency director
Dr. Michael Samaan has been named the first Associate Residency Program director of Greater Seacoast Community Health’s Family Medicine Residency Program. Samaan, who has two decades of experience in family medicine at hospitals and practices in Alaska and Texas, also served on the faculty of the Alaska Family Medicine Residency. Joining the program this summer are new resident physicians Samuel Backman, a graduate of Saba University School of Medicine in the Caribbean; Charelle Allen, from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada; Anna Byrne, a graduate of Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine; and Antara Chakraborty, from Calcutta National Medical College in India.
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