"My task is getting people to work together for a common cause," says Nick Vailas, founder of Bedford Ambulatory Surgical Center and Compass Healthcare Advisers, of his work in organizing and sustaining the annual CHaD NH East-West High School All Star Football Game.
Twenty years after running for governor of New Hampshire, Wayne King is working to secure international funding for the Phoenix Project, a $12 million pilot effort aimed at cleaning up endemic oil spills in West Africa while fostering economic development.
Kerry Pfrimmer, who last fall became New Hampshire district director of SCORE, says his organization’s impact ‘is quite significant and growing each year.’
David Stevens, founder of the Hanover-based education testing firm True Progress LLC, has spent two decades as an educator trying to answer a simple question: Are we solving the problem?
How New England reacts to changing energy picture could have a significant impact on future prices and economic growth
With tens of thousands of racing fans coming into the state from 44 states and 12 countries – and filling up the 5,000-spot camping ground – NHMS has a small but vital impact on the New Hampshire economy.
Tene is vice president of research and education at the Portsmouth-based International Association of Privacy Professionals
The trade group recently released a new marketing campaign for members highlighting the state’s sales tax-free status
Co-founder of the Green Alliance, Kellar is no stranger to innovative green ventures
Critics of vaping are demanding regulatory action that would go far beyond current efforts to ban e-cig sales to minors under 18
The propane motor vehicle fuel is gaining respect and market share even as it continues to fly under the radar as a viable alternative
As small businesses, nonprofits and governmental entities become ever more dependent on their IT infrastructure, they all become targets for viruses of all types
Like many entrepreneurs, Dan Innis has an ambitious schedule. Innis, who served as dean of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire from 2007 until he resigned late last year, oversaw the major transformation…
Ned Helms, founding director of the New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice at the University of New Hampshire, has strong opinions about the Affordable Care Act.
Laura Richardson took a unique journey to become the executive director of The Jordan Institute, the Concord-based nonprofit and energy-efficiency advocacy organization.
As two new Portsmouth eateries exemplify, it takes confidence, location and money
‘I heard Dave Cowens speak at a business conference, and it seemed that every point he made aligned with the points that were in our book drafts.’
Earlier this year, Portsmouth-based DeStefano Architects reached a landmark achievement with the completion of its 100th downtown Portsmouth project. The redesign of the new upstairs bar of the popular Italian restaurant Ristorante Massimo marked 18 years of downtown projects small…
Since its founding in 2010, the program has aimed to accelerate job growth and the development of early-stage tech companies
'There is too much ideology and too many ideological presumptions in our policymaking at all levels'
Dupont is a Concord lobbyist, former Senate president and member of several state boards and commissions
Efforts to promote and educate potential workers about career paths in manufacturing will be on full view at statewide events
After serving as volunteer state president of AARP New Hampshire from 2003 to 2007 Chevrefils has returned to the job for a second go-round
“Getting old is mandatory, but aging is optional,” said Sanders, a partner in the Portsmouth office of Pierce Atwood LLP.
Though accepting payment cards is convenient for customers, business owners should make reasonable efforts to secure their information
Bill Binnie’s latest venture is the Carlisle Media Group, which consists of a TV station and 17 radio stations
Social media is seen as a key tool in getting the word out about career opportunities
Believe it or not, Madbury lawyer and renowned Democratic Party activist William Shaheen – known to just about everybody as Billy – actually took a lengthy hiatus from politics.
It's only been since about 2006 when companies large and small got out of their comfort zones and began to take the plunge into the competitive energy market
A Q&A with the new head of DRED
‘We look at ourselves as a social enterprise, a nonprofit that is run like a business, which is not how a lot of nonprofits are viewed,’ says Terry Steingrebe, CEO of New Hampshire-based More Than Wheels.
Amid growing optimism, staffing firms see more hiring among employers
An interview with serial entrepreneur Mark Galvin
With NASCAR still recovering from the downturn, 5-year extension is good news for Loudon track
Peter Egelston, founder of Smuttynose Brewing Company, has been overseeing construction of a new $22 million, LEED-certified facility in Hampton project that will allow the company to triple its beer production.
Joseph Morone is bullish on New Hampshire -- in fact, he's bet his company's future on it. Morone, the CEO and president of Albany International Corp., relocated the international company's headquarters to Rochester last year. With the French aerospace maker…
After a two-year hiatus, Democratic Rep. Terie Norelli of Portsmouth is back in the New Hampshire House's top leadership post following the state's third major wave election since 2006. Norelli assumed the speaker's chair from Republican William O'Brien, who succeeded…
Scott O’Connell’s varied caseload includes representing N.H. hospitals in their suit over Medicaid payments and helping to work for the release of a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay
‘You would be hard-pressed to find someone with a bigger Rolodex in our state,’ says former U.S. Sen. Warren Rudman of his longtime friend
By any measure, Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center in Greenfield has been one of the great New Hampshire success stories since its founding in 1953. Its creation was a model of civic collaboration between the state's business and medical communities. Their…
Given the reality of what has been the most money-saturated election season in American history, one would think that John Rauh, founder of Concord-based Americans for Campaign Reform, would be discouraged. If anything, Rauh -- who says he "profoundly disagreed"…
James Morris knows a thing about the issue of eminent domain. Since being hired in 1975 as an assistant attorney general for the state, he has been involved in scores of eminent domain cases on both sides of the issue.…
An interview with Grace Newman, owner of the Highlands Inn lesbian resort in Bethlehem.
As the lead radio voice of the Boston Red Sox, Dave O’Brien knows a thing or two about the passion of Red Sox Nation --and not just as announcer. The Rye resident is a native of Quincy, Mass., grew up…
Each October, New Hampshire and the state's hospitals engage in an accounting sleight of hand set up in 1991. Hospitals wire the state millions of dollars to pay the "Medicaid Enhancement Tax," and the state then wires the amount back,…
The goal of the NH-ICC has been to create an innovative platform to accelerate the development of high technology, early-stage startups and leverage the growing intellectual capitalization at UNH
"There is a long track record of success for incubators which are associated with major academic institutions"
Manchester native Nick Soggu founded SilverTech in his hometown in 1996 as a web design firm. Now based in Bedford, the company works with clients on digital marketing, content strategy, database management, website development and other methods of maximizing customer engagement.
David Dunbar oversees an industrial manufacturing company that boasts an international reach from its headquarters in Salem, NH, and is primed for growth.
Russ Ouellette and Kristi Baxter of Sojourn Partners are veterans of the corporate world, where they learned leaderships skills from the people who led them and from becoming leaders themselves. Along the way, they learned the essence of great management…
Tom Raffio celebrates his 30th anniversary this year as president and CEO of Northeast Delta Dental, a taxexempt, nonprofit insurance company based in Concord that has been in business for more than 50 years.
Mica Stark has made higher education his calling — when he’s not on the golf greens.
In 2013, Brown joined Citizens Count, rising to executive director in 2020, and last year joined the Warren B. Rudman Center at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law
One Sky, founded in 1983, supports individuals diagnosed with developmental disabilities or acquired brain disorders, helping them to live as valued and participating members in their communities.
The inspiration for Media Power Youth came a generation before smartphones began changing the way teenagers interact with the world.
The owners of Sullivan Tire and Auto Service surprised the industry in 2023 when the family business turned over ownership of the company to its employees through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
