Barry Needleman is managing director of the Manchester-based of McLane Middleton. The law firm celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, which is a sign of it being ‘a strong, effective organization that is very good at what it does,’ he says.

As the New Hampshire’s flagship university, ‘we need to make sure that we're aligned with the needs of the state. I think people will be pleasantly surprised that we mostly are.’

For more than 40 years, New Hampshire Sen. Martha Fuller Clark and her husband Dr. Geoffrey Clark, an entrepreneur and gastroenterologist, have worked to strengthen New Hampshire communities as volunteers, advocates and philanthropists.

‘Being a nonprofit leader is a privilege and a joy,’ says Joan Garry, who will be the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits’ Nonprofit Leadership Summit on Sept. 19.

‘Our economy relies on our transportation system,’ says Victoria Sheehan, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation.

‘In the last 10 years, more and more people have taken an active role in protecting our water supply,’ says Jim Rousmaniere, author of ‘Water Connections.’

‘Our students are dealing with things we never had to,’ says Treadwell, a 1990 graduate of the school.

‘There are tremendous economic benefits to the rehabilitating of historic properties,’ says Elizabeth Muzzey, who is set to step down as director of the state Division of Historical Preservation at the end of July after 12 years in the job.

A fifth-generation bootmaker, Limmer creates world-famous, $800 boots from his shop in Intervale

‘The feedback I was getting from people when I was campaigning is that corporations and special interests are having an outsized influence in Washington and that has its impact on policy,’ says 1st District Congressman Chris Pappas.

‘The arts make you smarter, make you think more open-mindedly,’ says Bob Shea, who has for the past 33 years been director of the Barnstormers theater in Tamworth.

"My basic interest in real estate is to buy and rebuild apartments. That’s business. Owning a minor league baseball team is really for the fun of it," says Fisher Cats owner Art Solomon.

Dorthea M. “Dot” Seybold started working as marketing director for the North Conway retail center, Settlers Green, in 1989, and in 1991, she was named general manager, the post she holds today. Well known throughout the Mt. Washington Valley for…

‘Legal aid helps level the playing field so that everyone can get a fair shake,’ says Sarah Mattson Dustin, executive director of New Hampshire Legal Assistance, the civil legal aid organization.

Corbin Petro is president and CEO of Benevera Health, a joint venture of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and four New Hampshire hospitals that, she says, answers the question: ‘How can we collaborate to improve how care is delivered?’