BIA Photo Gallery

Adam Schmidt, vice president of J. Grimbilas Strategic Solutions, receives the Business & Industry Association’s Above and Beyond Award at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. New BIA Chair John Kacavas, left, and outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst, right, present the award. (Courtesy photo)

The Business & Industry Association elected its new officers at its Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. From left, Treasurer Steve Lawlor, principal, Nathan Wechsler; partner, Secretary Scott Ellison, Sheehan Phinney; Chair John Kacavas, counsel, Hinckley Allen; Tom Jokerst, outgoing chair, general manager, Anheuser-Busch; Past-chair Sheryl McQuade, New England regional president, TD Bank; and President Michael Skelton, president and CEO, BIA. Incoming Chair Kathleen Garfield is not pictured. (Courtesy photo)

Caitlin McCormick, vice president of sales and account management at United Healthcare in New Hampshire, delivers sponsor remarks during BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. BIA President and CEO Michael Skelton is at right. (Courtesy photo)

Courtney Tanner, Dartmouth Health, director of government relations for Dartmouth Health, receives the Business & Industry Association’s Above and Beyond Award at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. New BIA Chair John Kacavas, left, and outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst, right, present the award. (Courtesy photo)

Dave Patterson, BIA board member and a manufacturing, operations, and supply chain industry executive, receives the Business & Industry Association’s Above and Beyond Award at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. New BIA Chair John Kacavas, left, and outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst, right, present the award. (Courtesy photo)

James Dean, president of the University of New Hampshire, receives the Business & Industry Association’s Above and Beyond Award at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. New BIA Chair John Kacavas, left, and outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst present the award. (Courtesy photo)

Jamie Burnett, president of Sight Line Public Affairs, receives the Business & Industry Association’s Above and Beyond Award at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. New BIA Chair John Kacavas, left, and outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst present the award. (Courtesy photo)

John Kacavas, counsel, Hinckley Allen, delivers remarks as the 2023-2024 chair of the Business & Industry Association’s Board of Directors during BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. (Courtesy photo)

Kristi Baxter, executive coach with Sojourn Partners, receives the Business & Industry Association’s Above and Beyond Award at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. New BIA Chair John Kacavas, left, and outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst present the award. (Courtesy photo)

Mark Manuel, cofounder of Industrial Marketing, receives the Business & Industry Association’s Above and Beyond Award at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. New BIA Chair John Kacavas, left, and outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst, right, present the award. (Courtesy photo)

Michael O'Reilly, senior vice president and director of development and commercial lending for Bangor Savings Bank in New Hampshire, receives the Business & Industry Association’s Above and Beyond Award at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. New BIA Chair John Kacavas, left, and outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst, right, present the award. (Courtesy photo)

Business &; Industry Association President and CEO Michael Skelton opens BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. (Courtesy photo)

Sam Evans-Brown, executive director of Clean Energy New Hampshire, receives the Business & Industry Association’s Above and Beyond Award at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. New BIA Chair John Kacavas, left, and outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst present the award. (Courtesy photo)

Sheryl McQuade, New England regional president of TD Bank, and past-chair of the Business & Industry Association, delivers sponsor remarks during BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. BIA President and CEO Michael Skelton is at right. (Courtesy photo)

The Business & Industry Association’s outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst, right, general manager of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Williamsburg, Virginia, and former general manager of AB’s brewery in Merrimack, receives BIA’s Above and Beyond Award from new BIA Chair John Kacavas. The award was presented at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. (Courtesy photo)

The Business & Industry Association honored two of its outgoing board members at its Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. BIA President Michael Skelton, left, thanks outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst, center, general manager of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Williamsburg, Virginia, and former general manager of AB’s brewery in Merrimack; and Thomas Sullivan, right, senior vice president of operations, Sturm, Ruger and Company. (Courtesy photo)

The Business & Industry Association honored two of its outgoing board members at its Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. BIA President Michael Skelton, left, thanks outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst, center, general manager of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Williamsburg, Virginia, and former general manager of AB’s brewery in Merrimack; and Thomas Sullivan, right, senior vice president of operations, Sturm, Ruger and Company. (Courtesy photo)

Outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst, general manager of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Williamsburg, Virginia, and former general manager of AB’s brewery in Merrimack, delivers remarks at the Business & Industry Association’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17.

Wendy Hunt, president and CEO of the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce, receives the Business & Industry Association’s Above and Beyond Award at BIA’s Annual Business Meeting at LaBelle Winery in Derry Wednesday, May 17. New BIA Chair John Kacavas, left, and outgoing Chair Tom Jokerst, right, present the award. Hunt was also reelected to BIA’s Board of Directors as a representative of the N.H. Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. (Courtesy photo)