BIA has been an ACTIVE and VOCAL supporter of Common Core in NH. They’ve actively lobbied AGAINST PARENTAL RIGHTS.
The BIA is the Chamber of Commerce and the National Chamber has received LARGE $$ donations from the Gates Foundation who is the $$ behind Common Core.
Below is a list of individuals serving on the Board at the BIA.
Feel free to distribute this information.
What can you do?
Contact these companies and tell them you do NOT want the BIA supporting dumbed down standards in OUR public schools. Tell them that we will actively BOYCOTT their company/products and expose their anti-public school /parental rights agenda.
Board of Directors
Officers
Sharron McCarthy, Chair
President/Publisher, McLean Communications
Val Zanchuk, Chair-elect
President, Graphicast
Donald Welch, Past Chair
President, Globe Manufacturing Co. LLC
Karl Heafield, Treasurer
Principal and Past Managing Partner, Baker Newman Noyes
Scott Ellison, Secretary
Partner, Cook Little Rosenblatt and Manson
Jim Roche, President, Business and Industry Association of NH
Directors
Donald Baldini, AVP and Senior Legislative Counsel
Liberty Mutual Group
Todd Black, SVP External Affairs and Customer Relations
Unitil
Kevin Callahan, President and CEO
Exeter Health Resources Inc.
Joseph Carelli, President NH/VT
Citizens Bank
Cheryl Coletti, VP Business Development
Boston Asset Management
Richard Couch, Chairman of the Board
Hypertherm Inc.
Tim Dining, President
Sealite USA LLC
Linda Fanaras, President
Millennium Integrated Marketing
Suzanne Foster, Vice President and General Manager
Medtronic Advanced Energy
Katherine Garfield, President
Robert R. Keller Companies
Bryan Granger, SVP, Compliance and Administration
C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc.
Lisa Guertin, President and General Manager
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in NH
Pamela Hall, President
Normandeau Associates
Randall Labnon, General Manager
Town and Country Inn and Resort
Todd Leach, Chancellor
University System of New Hampshire
Stephen LeBlanc, Executive Vice President
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health
Paul Markwardt, VP/Deputy General Manager
BAE Systems
John Morison, Chairman
Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Joseph Murray, Vice President of Public Affairs
Fidelity Investments
John Olson, President
Whelen Engineering Inc.
Bill Quinlan, President and COO
Eversource
Teresa Rosenberger, President
Devine Strategies
Timothy Sink, President
Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce
Thomas Sullivan, VP of Newport Operations
Sturm, Ruger and Company Inc.
Ray Tice, Chief Financial Officer
Lindt and Sprüngli
Alexander Walker, SVP for Operations & Strategic Development
Catholic Medical Center
Steven Webb, Market President NH
TD Bank
David Worthen, President
Worthen Industries