Board of Directors

A new slate of officers and board members were approved at the association’s annual meeting conducted recently via Zoom in June 2020.   Officers approved by the membership for one year terms are: Chair, Andrew Curland, CEO & President, Vitex Extrusion; Chair-Elect, Sheryl McQuade, Northern New England Regional President, TD Bank; Past-Chair, Ginamarie Alvino, VP & Director of Legal Reform, The RiverStone Group; Treasurer, Karl Heafield, Principal, Baker Newman Noyes; Secretary, Scott Ellison, Partner, Cook Little Rosenblatt and Manson PLLC; and President, Jim Roche, President, Business & Industry Association of NH.

The membership also approved two new members to the association’s executive committee: Joe Shean, President, R.P. Abrasives and Gerri Vaughn, President & CEO, Tufts Health Freedom Plan.
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Newly elected members to the full board are: Heather Staples Lavoie, Chief Executive Officer and President, Geneia; Michael O’Reilly, Senior Vice President, Bangor Savings Bank; Kim Roy, General Manager, DoubleTree by Hilton Downtown Hotel; Cheryl Coletti-Lawson, Chief Operating Officer, The Lawson Group; and Peter Frid,  President & CEO, New Hampshire PBS.

​Please take a look at our entire board below:

Officers

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Chair, Andrew Curland              
CEO & President
​Vitex Extrusion/Momentum Manufacturing Group
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Past-Chair, Ginamarie Alvino            
VP & Director of Legal Reform
The ​RiverStone Group
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Secretary, Scott Ellison
Partner
​Cook Little Rosenblatt & Manson
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Chair-Elect, Sheryl McQuade
Northern New England Regional President
​TD Bank
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Treasurer, Karl Heafield
Principal
​Baker Newman Noyes
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President, Jim Roche
Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire

Executive Board

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Donald Baldini  
AVP & Sr. Legislative Counsel
​Liberty Mutual
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Raymond Brousseau
VP & Deputy General Manager
BAE Systems
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Daniel Cronin
President
CGI Business Solutions
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Susan Fleck
President
​Liberty Utilities NH
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John Gilbert      
President
​Synchrony Advisers
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Stephen Lawlor
Principal
​Nathan Wechsler
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Michael Mastergeorge 
VP/General Manager
​Brazonics
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Brien Murphy
Vice President
​Boyce Highlands
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Joseph A. Purington
President
​Eversource New Hampshire Operations
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Joe Shean
President
​R.P. Abrasives & Machines
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Evan Smith
President & CEO
​Hypertherm
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Gerri Vaughan
​President
​Tufts Health Freedom Plan
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Todd Black
SVP External Affairs & Customer Relations
​Unitil
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Patrick Closson 
Director
​McLane Middleton
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Linda Fanaras
President
​Millennium Agency
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Katherine Garfield          
President
Keller Companies
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John Kacavas    
CLO & General Counsel
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health
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Peter Marsh      
VP Market Development-Northeast
​Comcast Business Development
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Jeffrey McIver 
President/General Manager
​The Mountain Club on Loon
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Joseph Murray 
Vice President
Fidelity Investments
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Steven Shawver              
Executive VP & Chief Legal Officer
​Sig Sauer
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Kenneth Sheldon
State President
​Bank of America
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Tom Sullivan
SVP of Operations
​Sturm Ruger ​
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Val Zanchuk
President
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Directors

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Dick Anagnost
President
​Anagnost Investments
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William Brewster, MD
Vice President NH Market
​Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
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Kevin Callahan  
President & CEO
​Exeter Health Resources
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Joseph Carelli
President - NH/VT
​Citizens Bank
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Mark Ciborowski
Principal
Ciborowski Associates
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Michael Costa
President & CEO
​Fiduciary Trust Company of New England
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Christopher Diego          
Managing Director
​Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa
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John Friberg      
SVP, General Counsel
​Elliot Health System
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Peter Giorno     
Sr. Vice President/Region Mgr.
​People's United Bank
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Lisa Guertin
President & General Manager
Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield
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Tom Jokerst
General Manager
​Anheuser-Busch
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Leonel Klassen 
VP of Operations
​Elektrisola
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Anne Lapointe 
EVP, Chief Administrative Officer
​The Provident Bank
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Joel Maiola
Principal
​Granite Edge Consulting
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John Morison   
Chairman
​Hitchiner Manufacturing
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Marian Noronha
​President
Turbocam International
Michael O'Reilly
Senior Vice President
Bangor Savings Bank
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David Patterson
President and CEO
Cirtronics 
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Alex Phelps
​VP Construction
Pike Industries
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James Reidy
​Shareholder
Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green
Kim Roy
​General Manager
DoubleTree by Hilton Manchester Downtown
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Bobby Segal
CEO
​Sanel NAPA Auto Parts
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Curtis Simard
President & CEO
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust
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Owen Smith
VP of External Affairs
​AT&T
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Heather Staples Lavoie
President
Geneia
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Thomas Taylor
President & CEO
​Foxx Life Sciences
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Richard Verney
Chairman & CEO
​Monadnock Paper Mills
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Thomas White
President
​New England Wire Technologies
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Stephen Wood
President & CEO
​Work Opportunities Unlimited 
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Kevin Boyarsky
President
​NH Print & Mail Services
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Peter Burger     
President
​Orr & Reno
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Steven Camerino            
President & CEO
​NH Electric Cooperative
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Dean Christon  
Executive Director
​NH Housing Finance Authority
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Cheryl Coletti-Lawson
​Chief Operations Officer
​The Lawson Group
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Eric Crainich
President
Design Standards Corporation
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Gerry Fay
Executive Vice President
​NH Ball Bearings
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Peter Frid
President and CEO
NH Public Broadcasting
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David Greer       
CEO
​Wire Belt Company of America
Robert Hines
​COO
​Admix
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Michael Karsonovich
President & CEO
​ElectroCraft
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Ovide Lamontagne
Shareholder
Bernstein Shur
Brian Law
President
​Law Logistics
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Mark McCue
Partner
​Hinckley Allen
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John Murphy    
Chief Operating Officer
​GZA GeoEnvironmental
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Russ Ouellette
​President
Sojourn Partners
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Joseph Pepe, MD
​​President & CEO
Catholic Medical Center
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Steven Poggi
Dir. Of Disposal Operations
​Waste Management
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Denis Robinson
Partner
​Pierce Atwood
Charles Santich
General Manager
​Pilgrim Foods
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Mike Shultz
VP Regulatory & Public Policy
​Consolidated Communications
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Timothy Sink
​President
​Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce
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Jon Sparkman
President
​Devine Millimet
Venu Sunkara
Dir of Operations and Franklin Site Leader
​Watts Water
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Justin Vartanian
General Counsel
​Planet Fitness World Headquarters
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Brandon Wagner
Site Leader
​GE Aviation
Michael Wiles
President
​Index Packaging

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