Grafton County NH Economic Development Council :: Board of Directors and Staff

The GCEDC is led by a dedicated group of volunteers who believe in a better future for Grafton County. They are diverse; coming from many different industries, backgrounds, and geographic locations within Grafton County.

Bill is a graduate of Colgate University. He and his wife Bonnie live in Holderness, NH and have two grown children.

Daniel Moore, Vice President
Vice Provost, Plymouth State University
Daniel P. Moore has been employed by Plymouth State University (PSU) since 1990. During that time Moore has taught in both PSU's MBA and undergraduate business programs, served as Chair of the Business Department, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, and is currently a faculty fellow of assessment for the University.

Moore holds a BA in American Studies from Kent State University, MBA from Youngstown State University, and Ph. D. in Organizational Sciences from Drexel University.

Moore has academic and practical interests in strategic management, organizational dynamics, and organizational change. He has served on of numerous town committees and non-profit organizations boards, and worked as a consultant to various for-profit and non-profit organizations.

Julia Griffin, Secretary
Town Manager, Town of Hanover
Julia is the Town Manager of Hanover, N.H., a position she has held since August 1996. Prior to her move to Hanover, she was the City Manager of Concord, NH from April of 1992 through July of 1996, and served as Assistant City Manager from August of 1990 through April of 1992. Julia began her work in the city management profession in 1984, when she worked for the Office of Downtown and Harbor Development for the City of New Haven in 1983 and the Office of Management and Budget for the City of New York in 1984-1985, followed by five years in the City of Santa Monica, working as a Senior Management Analyst in the Office of the City Manager from 1985-1990.

Julia received her B.A. in Political Science from Wesleyan University in 1979, her M.A. in International Relations from Yale University in 1982, and her MPPM from the Yale School of Management in 1984. Prior to completion of her graduate degrees in 1984, Julia worked for the American Field Service, the American Friends Service Committee, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Agency for International Development, and Save the Children Federation in a variety of international internships.

Julia resides with her husband and two children in Hanover, NH.

Ronda Kilanowski, Treasurer
Malone, Dirubbo and Company, P.C.
Ronda began working for Malone, Dirubbo & Company, P.C. in September 1989 and has been working in the public accounting profession since 1984. Since she was certified by the New Hampshire Board of Accountancy in February 1989. She has concentrated her professional growth and technical proficiency in areas that are beneficial to small and medium size businesses.

Ronda has had a strong impact on her community; lending expertise and enthusiasm to a variety of civic and charitable causes such as serving on the Boards of New England Peer Review, DAcres of New Hampshire, Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, Granite State Economic Development Council, Plymouth Lioness Club, Friends of the Arts and is an active member of the NH Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Ray Gosney, Immediate Past President
Vice President, Strategy & Government Relations, NH Electrical Co-op
Ray came to Grafton County in 1992 from the Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative and the Virginia Electric & Power Company. Since that time he has held a number of senior leadership positions including Chief Operating Officer. He is currently Executive Vice-President of the Cooperative's Strategy and Governmental Relations Division responsible for strategic planning, government policy and relations, legislative and regulatory issues, and business relations.

Ray has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Virginia Military Institute and has done post-graduate work in business administration at Plymouth State University. Ray is a graduate of the Northeast Public Power Association’s Utility Management Program and the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association’s Management Internship Program, has a certificate in Quality Leadership from Rivier College, and is a 2001 Associate of Leadership New Hampshire. He serves as Chair of the Information and Digital Communications Committee of NRECA’s Cooperative Research Network and Chair of the Board of Directors for MultiSpeak™.

Ray is an active member of his community, serving as Chair of the Town of Plymouth’s Planning Board and Chair for the Board of Directors of Grafton County Economic Development Council, and is a founding Board Member of the NHEC Foundation. He resides in Plymouth.

Jonathan Gould
Senior Vice President- Senior Market Manager, Northway Bank
Jonathan Gould is a native of Plymouth and a lifelong resident of Grafton County. He is currently Regional Vice President-Commercial Lending for Northway Bank and is located in Plymouth. He has worked in the banking industry for 25 years, the last 17 in commercial lending. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Plymouth State University.

Jonathan has a passion for economic development and has been a member of the Concord Regional Development Council and the Franklin Business & Industrial Development Corporation. He currently serves on the White Mountain Gateway Economic Development Corporation and is a trustee of the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center. He has been with GCEDC for five years, having served as President for two terms.

Paul Boucher
Executive Director, Greater Lebanon Chamber of Commerce
Paul Boucher, a New Hampshire native attended St. Anselm College after graduating from high school. After serving two years in the Army with one year of active duty in Vietnam he returned to earn his under graduate degree from Southern New Hampshire University with a major in Business Administration.

He was immediately employed by the Indian Head Banks holding company (now Bank of America) in its officer training program. Upon completion he was assigned to their affiliate Indian Head of Claremont and has been in the Upper Valley since (32 years). In l976 he joined the National Bank of Lebanon (now Citizens Bank) where he served as the Branch Administration Officer.

In l980 he joined the Insurance Firm of Degnan, Hough as a property and casualty agent/broker and worked on the Staff of the former Senate President Ralph Hough. Later he worked for the Townsend Insurance Agency in the same capacity.

In l999 Paul was hired as the President and CEO of the Greater Lebanon Chamber of Commerce.

Paul has served as a director of Grafton County Economic Development council since it’s inception in 1998. He was recipient of Lebanon’s Citizen of the year in 1984, Rotarian of the year and Paul Harris Fellow from the Lebanon Rotary Club.

He served on the board of Lebanon College, five years as chair, and now serves on the advisory boards of Claremont Community Vocation College, Lake Sunapee Bank, and the Traffic Management Association, Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital and Dartmouth Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.

Paul returned to college in 1999 and earned his master’s degree from Notre Dame College.

Christine Walker
Executive Director, Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission
Christine Walker was recently hired as the Executive Director of the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission, a small organization serving 27 communities. She has more than seven year experience in the planning industry. She worked as the Economic Development Planning Coordinator funded through the US Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration and was responsible for assisting the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Committee in maintaining a regional Economic Strategy while at North Country Council. Projects included installation of water and sewer facilities to instigate development, and the construction of a 36,000 sq.ft. building to house a business incubation center in conjunction with Dartmouth College with a cost estimate of $8M.

Christine received a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resource Planning from the School of Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, has taken a number of post-graduate courses and completed the New Hampshire Professional Certification Program in Economic Development, New Hampshire Economic Development Association in June of 2003.

Christine is a member of the New Hampshire Planners Association and the American Planning Association. She is a Board member of the Passumpsic Valley Land Trust and serves on a number of state-wide committees in New Hampshire. She currently resides in St. Johnsbury, VT.

John Manchester
Upper Valley SCORE
Long a fixture in Grafton County’s “Upper Valley” region, John has owned and operated an Avis car and truck leasing/rental business for over 25 years. Starting small, John grew the business to where it currently has a 100 vehicle fleet and employs twenty five people. The business is operated from five retails locations throughout the Upper Valley.

John’s business portfolio also includes commercial property ownership and management. Properties include the Hanover Coop, Irving gas, and three Denny’s restaurants in the Upper Valley.

John graduated from Norwich University and served for three years as a US Army pilot in Vietnam. He is a past Select Board member in Hanover and has retained membership with the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and the Hanover Rotary since 1970.

In his “spare time” John is a volunteer for the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) where he counsels local small businesses seeking advice and assistance.

Steve Schneider
Town Manager, Town of Enfield, NH
Steve has served as Town Manager in Enfield since November 2005. Prior to that he was the Assistant. City Manager in Batavia NY from December 2001 to Oct. 2005. Steve also was the Asst. Township Manager in Tobyhanna Township, PA from Oct. 1999 to Nov. 2001 and the Administrative Assistant for the Town of Richmond, VT from Aug. 1996 to Sept. 1999.

Steve received his B.A. in History from SUNY Plattsburgh in 1992 and an M.P.A from the University of Vermont in 1997. He lives in Enfield with his wife and two children

Mike Alberts
Consultant, New England Wire Technologies, Inc., Lisbon, NH
A life long NH resident Mike has held various management positions within technology companies including Digital Equipment, Salem NH and Apollo Computer, Statham/Exeter NH. Mike has also worked for technology start up companies and a consulting firm in Bedford NH / Portland Me. Mike owned and operated a professional management consulting and placement firm prior to his current independent consulting positions.

Trent Boggess
Dean, Plymouth State University College of Business Administration
Dr. Trent Boggess is the founding dean of the College of Business Administration at Plymouth State University – University System of New Hampshire. He joined the faculty in 1983 after a number of years in both education and business. He is a member of PSU’s Economics faculty and the MBA Graduate faculty.

Since joining the leadership team in business in 2001 Dean Boggess has encouraged the development of online courses in the Plymouth MBA program, and watched the program grow from 100 to nearly 400 graduate students. Currently the online MBA program has students in Shanghai, China; Cluj, Romania; India and the Caribbean. He has encouraged the development of three new Bachelor of Science degrees in business: Finance, Business Administration, and Sports Management (in partnership with PSU’s Health and Human Performance Department). He has also encouraged the development of three new options in Marketing: Integrated Marketing Communications, Public Relations, and Sales Leadership, and a new Management option in Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Boggess has had an interest in antique cars, particularly Fords, for over forty years. He is a member of the Model T Ford Club of America, The Model T Ford Club International, and the Society of Automotive Historians. He owns ~~eight~~ nine antique cars, all Fords. These include a 1926 Model T coupe, a 1925 Model T Roadster, a 1924 Model TT grain truck, a 1922 Model T fire truck, a 1916 Model T touring car, a 1914 Model T touring car (freshly retrieved from a barn in Sandwich, NH after an 83 year nap), a 1911 Torpedo Runabout a 1908 Model S Roadster, and a 1907 Model N Runabout.

In 2005 Professor Boggess took his second sabbatical leave from Plymouth State University to work at the Benson Ford Research Center at The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI. During his first sabbatical he devoted his efforts towards developing and initiating a program for reorganizing the Henry Ford Office papers. The second sabbatical was spent organizing and cataloging the Henry Austin Clark II Photographic Collection, one of the largest automotive photographic collections at The Henry Ford. He has served as a consultant to the Staff of the Benson Ford Research Center and to the Corporate History Department of the Ford Motor Company on matters pertaining to the early years and products of Ford.

Dr. Boggess has been a frequent contributor to the Vintage Ford and the Model T Times. He is the author of the “Ts in Books” column which appears in the Vintage Ford. He has authored several major articles including “Henry Ford, Ed Huff and the Flywheel Magneto” and “The Customer Can Have Any Color He Wants So Long As Its Black: A Study of the Materials and Methods Used to Paint the Model T”, “The Piquette Avenue Plant: Birthplace of the Model T”, “The Lost Papers of Fay Leone Faurote” and “Model T #1”. He is currently researching the Hungarian born engineers who assisted Henry Ford with the design of the Model T. When he is not administering the College of Business administration or researching Ford’s early years and products, he teaches HIDI 2310 American Economic Development for PSU’s History and Philosophy Department.

Christine Latulip
Vice President, Littleton Branch Manager, Union Bank
Chris brings to the GCEDC thirty-five years of banking and management experience in the Littleton region. She began her career in 1971 with Peoples Bank of Littleton and held most all of the positions in the bank, ultimately becoming President and CEO from 1996 to 2000. After Peoples Bank was acquired by Connecticut River Bank, she remained as Regional President for the Littleton Area before becoming Deputy Director of Affordable Housing Education & Development (AHEAD) in Littleton in 2001, and then becoming President of Calain, Inc, a company specializing in tax-deferred real estate and personal property exchanges.

In addition, she served for more than fifteen years as an experienced senior lender in underwriting commercial loans to assist clients in acquiring and growing their businesses. She has written extensively on the topic of alternative strategies in the sale of investment property and taught continuing education classes to real estate professionals, attorneys and accountants in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

Chris has earned the distinction of Certified Exchange Specialist (CES®) from the Federation of Exchange Accommodators. She is a graduate of the National Commercial Lending School and holds a master’s degree in Community Economic Development. She serves as President of the area’s only land trust, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust and Treasurer of Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, a federally qualified community health center. She is a founding member and past president of the area’s only affordable housing organization, Affordable Housing Education & Development. Chris is an avid hiker and a member of the Appalachian Mountain's 4000 footer club, climbing all 48 4000’ peaks in New Hampshire. She resides in Littleton.

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Mark Scarano
Executive Director
No longer a newcomer to New Hampshire, Mark was hired as Executive Director of the Grafton

Mark grew up in northern Maine and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Maine and a master’s degree from the Iowa State University of Science and Technology. Upon returning to Maine, he managed Senator Olympia Snowe’s Bangor office and represented her on constituency issues in Maine’s easternmost counties. Mark cut his economic development teeth as Community Development Director in Millinocket before being hired by the Piscataquis County (Maine) Economic Development Council as their Business Development Director and, subsequently, Executive Director. In that position, he led successful efforts to attract two manufacturers to Piscataquis County; both of which have created over 150 jobs. He also organized an effort to have the State of Maine fund $1.2 million for a center for higher education and enacted innovative tourism development initiatives that will help diversify that county’s natural resource-based economy.

He is currently focused on expanding the business assistance services of the GCEDC, developing business incubator space in the town of Plymouth, expanding the successful Dartmouth Regional Technology Center incubator in Lebanon, and growing the GCEDC’s $2 million revolving loan fund.

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