Business Excellence Awards

About these awards

Bea Logo 2025NH Business Review’s Business Excellence Awards is an annual awards program that recognizes the achievements of business owners and operators in New Hampshire.

Since 2003, NH Business Review has been honoring the imagination, industriousness, innovation and achievements of business owners and operators in New Hampshire.

The Business Excellence Awards — awarded in nine different categories — honor individuals from New Hampshire-based businesses with fewer than 100 employees and those with more than 100 employees in the following categories:

  • Business & Professional Services
  • Consumer Services
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Manufacturing
  • Nonprofit
  • Real Estate & Construction
  • Social Equity
  • Technology

2025 Reception and Ceremony

Please join us to celebrate this year’s recipients and Hall of Fame inductee. This event is open to everyone and past recipients are highly encouraged to attend.

Business Excellence Awards
Thursday, October 9, 2025 | 5-8 p.m.
Grappone Conference Center
Concord, NH
Individual tickets: $90 per person, plus fees
Table of 10: $85 per person, plus fees

2025 Honorees

  • Business and Professional Services (Large): David Vicinanzo of Nixon Peabody LLP
  • Business and Professional Services (Small): Dirk Nadon of Lakes Media 101.5 FM
  • Consumer Services (Small): Carl Fimbel of Fimbel Garage Doors
  • Financial Services (Large): Marcus Weeks of Meredith Village Savings Bank
  • Financial Services (Small): Steve Saltzman of New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
  • Health Care (Large): Tom Mee of North Country Healthcare
  • Health Care (Small): Mark S. Morris, DDS, of Merrimack Smiles
  • Manufacturing (Small): Evan Behrens of White Mountain Paper Company
  • Nonprofit (Large): Maureen Beauregard of Easterseals NH and VT
  • Nonprofit (Small): Michael Apfelberg of United Way of Greater Nashua
  • Real Estate and Construction (Large): James Hasselbeck of ReVision Energy
  • Real Estate and Construction (Small): Michael Turcotte of Turn Cycle Solutions
  • Social Equity (Large): Josephine Moran of Ledyard Financial Group
  • Social Equity (Small): Anthony Poore of NH Center for Justice & Equity
  • Technology (Large): Paige Yeater of Mainstay Technologies
  • Hall of Fame Recipient: Renee Plummer of Two International Group

The nomination period for 2025 is now closed. Congratulations to this years honorees and thank you to those who took the time to submit a nomination.

Nominations were open through Friday, July 11, 2025

Judging criteria and nomination recommendations can be found here.

Interested in resubmitting a nomination? Please reach out to Paul Milone at paulm@yankeepub.com for more information.

Please note: We encourage people to submit one well-thought out and thorough nomination versus multiple, partial nominations for the same person. If you are asking clients or employees to submit a nomination, please consider asking them to write a letter of recommendation for your nominee and using those individual letters as supporting documents for one nomination. Multiple nominations for the same person will not increase chances of being chosen as an award recipient.

Recipient Profiles

Business Excellence Awards Hall of Fame Recipients

Since its creation in 2003, NH Business Review’s Business Excellence Hall of Fame has honored individuals who have been visionary leaders, inspiring change not just within New Hampshire, but often reaching beyond our borders.

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