Author: Mike Cote

Rob Whitten and Jane Lo want to speed up that line of cars that snakes around a coffee shop. With P!ng, they’re updating the traditional drive-thru model by replacing human servers with robotic automation and moving orders from speaker boxes to smartphone apps.

Since Michael Flaherty joined Taylor Community as president and CEO more than a decade ago, the Lakes Region continuing care retirement community (CCRC) has grown to three sites, expanding form its Laconia flagship to locations in Wolfeboro and one in Meredith that it acquired from other providers.

Reardon and Angelica Ladd, communications manager for the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits, recently visited NH Business Review to talk about the campaign as well as the upcoming NH Gives online fundraising program on the “Down to Business” podcast with editors Amanda Andrews and Mike Cote. This story is adapted from the interview.

Meghan Shue knew she wanted to work in finance as early as high school, setting a goal in college to land a job on Wall Street. But she faced a few curveballs, including a global financial crisis that hit just as she graduated with degrees in operations research and financial engineering.

Advanced Solutions Life Sciences earned top honors at the NH Tech Alliance’s Product of the Year competition last year for the AI-powered software it uses to create human tissue and bone through a 3D printing platform known as the BioAssembly Bot 500, which features a multi-axis robotic arm.

Jordana Pomeroy’s path to New Hampshire included stops in much bigger locales, but when the board of the Currier Museum of Art contacted her to consider leaving South Florida to come to Manchester, it was the right move at the right time.

‘What I learned is if we wanted to have a product or a program in New Hampshire that was successful, it had to mirror the illegal product, because if it was too greedy, if it was…

In her new book, “The Emotionally Intelligent Team,” published by Harvard Business Review Press, Druskat explores the overlooked factor she says separates high-performing teams from the rest: emotional intelligence.

Nearly two years ago, Jason Plant and Kadin Burns founded Green Lightning Energy in Sanbornton with the goal to make clean energy affordable for everyday homeowners.

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.