Author: Michael McCord

Q&A: Betsey Andrews Parker

Betsey Andrews Parker, CEO of social service agency Community Action Partnership of Strafford County (CAPSC), has seen the war on poverty up close and personal since she joined the organization in 2010

Q&A: Retiring UNH President James Dean

After more than four decades in academia as a professor and topline administrator, University of New Hampshire President James “Jim” Dean is retiring June 30.

Q&A: Chef at Stages Evan Hennessey

Many of the customers who sit down for a unique fine-dining experience at Stages at One Washington in Dover might be surprised that the owner had no plans to become an award-winning chef, restaurant owner and television cooking competition star.

Q&A with FedPoint CEO Paul Forte

‘We are leaving behind an old and trusted name, but we are becoming a far more capable and innovative company than we were,’ says Paul Forte, CEO of the recently rebranded FedPoint, the Portsmouth-based company formerly known as LTC Partners.

Q&A with Smuttynose Brewery CEO Richard Lindsay

The Smuttynose craft beer brand ‘is very resilient,’ says Richard Lindsay, CEO of the brewery. He is heading up the turnaround of the company, which was acquired at auction earlier this year.

Q&A with Theatre for Life’s Genevieve Aichele

Genevieve Aichele, artistic director of the NH Theatre Project and founder of Theatre for Life, says traditional theatrical tools like improvisation, script analysis and role-playing can be used to help all sorts of individuals and organizations.

Q&A with zero-waste pioneer Alex Freid

University of New Hampshire alumnus Alex Freid, who founded the Post Landfill Action Network in 2011 while still at UNH, says the growing organization is ‘challenging the models of disposability and planned obsolescence.’

Q&A with State Sen. David Watters

State Sen. David Watters, D-Dover: ‘I have found in New Hampshire that businesses and industries and their lobbyists in Concord want to find ways to work together.’

Q&A with BEA Commissioner Taylor Caswell

‘Small government helps find solutions, and we really need to get back to that approach,’ says Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the recently created Department of Business and Economic Affairs.

Q&A with Northern Forest Center President Rob Riley

‘The New Hampshire North Country is part of a broader four-state region that is complicated and dynamic,’ says Rob Riley, president of the Concord-based Northern Forest Center, which focuses on economic development in the northern forest areas of New York, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire.