New Hampshire Business Review - May-16 2014

May 1, 2014

NH Business Review Staff

Kathy Kittle of CATCH Neighborhood Housing

Kathleen Callahan,

2014 Financial Executive of the Year winner

John Gargasz of 10X Venture Partners

Kathleen Callahan,

2014 Financial Executive of the Year winner

Anna Johnson of Jabra-GN Netcom

Kathleen Callahan,

2014 Financial Executive of the Year winner

Edwin Garside of Optima Bank & Trust Company

Kathleen Callahan,

2014 Financial Executive of the Year winner

Elin Treanor of Easter Seals New Hampshire

Kathleen Callahan,

2014 Financial Executive of the Year winner

Marjorie Thorpe of Adaptive Communications

Kathleen Callahan,

2014 Financial Executive of the Year winner

Where did Peter T. Paul get his money?

Bob Sanders,

The man whose name adorns the UNH business school is a financier who helped create securitized low-doc loans

Newly launched program gives women a pathway to building trades

Beth LaMontagne-Hall,

Lisa Wiggin was looking for a career change. A 40-something nurse’s assistant, she wanted a job that was “more hands-on” and gave her the satisfaction of working on a project and seeing something finished.

Newforma execs named Entrepreneurs of Year

NH Business Review Staff,

Bob Batcheler, Dave Plunkett and Ian Howell, the three men at the helm of Manchester-based Newforma, have won the 26th annual New Hampshire High Tech Council’s Entrepreneur of the Year award. The leaders at the other two finalist companies, Scribe…

Report: N.H. 13th best state for retirement

NH Business Review Staff,

State cited for health care quality, low taxes, crime rate

More news from NHBR:

The Mayhew Program

Mayhew challenges and helps at-risk New Hampshire boys to believe in themselves, work well with others and find their best. It is the only all-boys program in the state that combines school-year mentoring and a residential summer program for at-risk boys, tuition-free, through high school graduation.

Linda’s Closet

Linda’s Closet assists women in achieving life and career goals by providing donated clothing at no cost. The Closet offers a wide variety of clothing for all aspects of a woman’s life, from professional attire to casual wear, school clothes to formal gowns. Clothing also can be provided to fill emergency needs.

Summit Packaging Systems founder Gordon Gilroy dies at 101

Gordon Crossman Gilroy, 101, passed away peacefully at his home in Bedford, New Hampshire, on January 27, 2026. Gilroy founded Summit Packaging Systems, a Manchester-based company that makes aerosol valves.

Land For Good

Land For Good’s mission is to expand secure farmland access, tenure and transfer. We connect, assist and engage farmers, landowners, service providers, communities and policymakers to grow equitable farming opportunity and sustainably keep land in agriculture.

Mall at Fox Run owner, town eye tax district for new Seacoast Landing

Torrington Properties and Newington officials are discussing the creation of a tax increment financing district at the site of the soon-to-be-razed Mall at Fox Run, where the company is preparing to construct the new Seacoast Landing shopping district.

Take 5: College graduation rate, job prediction report, and health care insurance

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NHPR launches “Your Neighbors, Your News,” introducing the faces behind local NH news

NH Public Radio’s new video series, “Your Neighbors, Your News,” introduces you to many of the nearly two dozen talented NHPR reporters, editors, hosts and producers who not only bring you the news that matters most in New Hampshire each day, but are your neighbors in the Granite State, committed to digging for answers you need to better understand our changing state.

State lawmakers deny Nashua funding to buy Daniel Webster College site

The state Senate Finance Committee voted along party lines January 13 against a bill that would give Nashua $20 million to purchase the former site of Daniel Webster College. Four Republicans voted in favor and two Democrats against.