BIA Elects New Directors, Officers

At its annual business meeting held on May 8, at the Center of New Hampshire in Manchester, the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire elected the following new members to its board of directors:

• Joseph Carelli, President, NH/VT, Citizens Bank
• Pamela Hall, President, Normandeau Associates
• Larry Magor, Managing Director, Omni Mount Washington Resort
• David Worthen, President, Worthen Industries, Inc.

BIA re-elected the following board members to three-year terms:

• Nancy Clark, President and CEO, Glen Group, Inc.
• Mark Gallagher, Vice President Government Relations, Fidelity Investments
• Lisa Guertin, President & General Manager, Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield
• Karl Heafield, Principal, Baker Newman Noyes
• Randall Labnon, General Manager, Town & Country Inn and Resort
• Richard Samuels, Director, McLane Graf Raulerson & Middleton (two-year term)
• Tim Sink, President, Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce (NHACCE Representative – one-year term)

BIA also elected the following board members as officers:

• Chair: John Morison, Chairman, Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.
• Chair-elect: Ray Tice, CFO, Lindt & Sprungli
• Past Chair: Gary Long, President & COO, Public Service of New Hampshire
• Treasurer: Richard Maloney, President, Maloney & Kennedy, PLLC
• Secretary: Bradford Cook, Sr. Partner & Past President, Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green
• President/CEO: Jim Roche, President/CEO, Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire

The annual meeting also included presentation of the BIA’s Above and Beyond Awards to those individuals who demonstrated outstanding service and commitment to BIA’s mission during the past year. Accepting Above and Beyond awards last night were:

• , President, Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy
• , Managing Partner, Denney and Bouley
• Patrick Closson, Director & Chair of Healthcare Group, McLane Graf Raulerson & Middleton
• Dan Cronin, CEO, CGI Employee Benefits Group
• John Cunningham, Of Counsel, Corporate Department, McLane Graf Raulerson & Middleton
• Mike Dacey, Senior Hydrogeologist, GeoInsight, Inc.
• Doug Dean, CEO, Elliot Health System
• Jack Donachie, CEO, International Cars Limited
• Doug Folsom, General Manager, GE Aviation
• Bob Hasevlat, Business Development, Normandeau Associates
• Cleve Kapala, Director of Government Affairs, TransCanada
• Sharron McCarthy, President & Publisher, McLean Communications
• Larry Magor, Managing Director, Omni Mount Washington Resort
• Charlie Niebling, General Manager, New England Wood Pellet
• Ellen Scarponi, Communications Director of Government Relations & Economic Development, FairPoint Communications
• Charla Stevens, Director, Litigation Department, McLane Graf Raulerson & Middleton
• Jim St. Pierre, Operations Manager, New Hampshire Ball Bearings – Astro Division
• Jeff Watson, COO, CGI Employee Benefits Group

The annual business meeting and member reception was sponsored by Pierce Atwood.

About the BIA: The Business and Industry Association is New Hampshire’s statewide chamber of commerce and leading business advocate. The BIA represents more than 400 members in a variety of industries, including advanced manufacturing, high technology, professional services, financial services, health care, hospitality and tourism, public utilities, higher education and insurance. Member firms employ 86,000 people throughout the state and contribute $4.5 billion annually to the state’s economy. Through advocacy with state legislators and regulators, the BIA works to promote a healthy business climate and robust economic future for New Hampshire.

The BIA’s 2012 public policy priorities include: preserving the New Hampshire Advantage through  support of fiscally conservative state budgets with a business-friendly regulatory and tax structure; supporting business tax policies that foster economic growth; supporting infrastructure development; supporting efforts to increase the availability and affordability of housing for working people; supporting pro-business labor rules and regulations that consider the rights and responsibilities of workers and management; supporting efforts that enhance outcomes and reduce/slow the growth of total healthcare costs for employers and the state; supporting efforts to develop New Hampshire’s future workforce; working towards mitigating the long- and short-term costs of energy; supporting efforts to reform the state’s telecommunications regulations to ensure fairness and equal competition among all service providers; and supporting environmental policies, legislation and administrative rules that balance economic development with the long-term viability of the state’s natural resources. For more information about the BIA, visit http://www.nhbia.org/.