NAMES AND FACES - January 2008

Renee Fisher recently joined Extended Family as its community outreach coordinator. Renee comes to the agency with a combination of elder care and marketing experience. After serving as the director of recreation therapy at Seacoast Health Center, she became the administrator for its new assisted-living facility, The Partridge House. Renee also has personal experience caring for an elderly family member, and with working for the nonprofit organization Easter Seals. We are excited to have her on board, and look forward to what she will bring to the organization.

Andy Horonick, a December 2005 graduate of the University of Bridgeport (Conn.) College of Chiropractic, is now an associate at Duke Family Chiropractic specializing in corrective care.

Horonick, a native of New Rochelle, N.Y., is a second-career chiropractor. His first career was centered in New York City as a paralegal for a patent and trademark firm. His introduction to chiropractic care was several years ago after a fall on ice. So impressed with the care he received, Horonick decided to return to obtain his chiropractic degree so that others may benefit from this holistic healing art. In addition to his work, Horonick enjoys hiking, the outdoors, and time with family. He is currently accepting new patients.

A Dover company is putting its best foot forward as a micro, full-service design firm. In addition to offering its Web, advertising and print creations with a focus on image and brand building for an array of businesses and organizations on the Seacoast, SharpeWorks Strategic Design has recently found a niche in the local footwear industry. The Locust Street firm has been offering an extensive range of services and expertise to several local footwear companies. In fact, the SharpeWorks team just completed its seventh year of working with Benjamin Walk, a Barrington company that features a number of shoe lines, including a new designer footwear line by "Project Runway" season three contestant Jonathan Kayne. SharpeWorks is a small, full-service, strategic design firm offering an integrated approach for identity through branding and marketing.

Bottomline Technologies, a leading provider of collaborative payment and invoice automation solutions in Portsmouth, announces that Day & Zimmermann has expanded its implementation of Bottomline's payments platform to deliver payroll and accounts payable payment efficiency to an additional 15 locations. The company now leverages Bottomline's payment capabilities at approximately 65 of its locations. Bottomline's payments automation platforms allow organizations to establish more secure, efficient and cost-effective enterprise payment processes. By choosing Bottomline, organizations such as Day & Zimmermann, a national provider of products and outsourcing services for government and commercial customers, can streamline, monitor and control the entire payment cycle from a single technology platform, while strengthening existing payment fraud detection capabilities.

Whaleback Systems announces the expansion of its CrystalBlue Voice service into the Southeast with the opening of a regional sales office in Atlanta, Ga., and named seasoned telecom sales executive Jim Fitzgerald as regional channel manager for the region. Whaleback also announces that telecommunications services company Phone Worx of Buford, Ga., and Canopy Communications of Lilburn, Ga., have joined its Partner Program, a comprehensive channel sales program for interconnect, Value-Added Resellers (VARs), network integrators and IT services companies, to accelerate the distribution of Whaleback's CrystalBlue Voice Service to small and medium-sized businesses across the Peach State. Whaleback is a managed service provider (MSP) and is the first and only company to deliver an end-to-end broadband business telephony service for small and medium business (SMB) customers that features a managed premises-based IP PBX with key system functionality along with broadband-based telephony service infrastructure. Whaleback's CrystalBlue Voice service features an all-inclusive, unlimited nationwide calling package that makes it one of the most advanced technologies immediately affordable to companies needing between five and 1,500 phone stations. The CrystalBlue Voice Service includes a separate "voice only" broadband connection inclusive in the monthly price, and the entire service is monitored and maintained around the clock. Jim Fitzgerald has more than 20 years of channel sales experience in the technology and telecommunications industries. Before joining Whaleback, Fitzgerald served as director of sales, wholesale dealer channel, for Inter-Tel technologies. Before Inter-Tel, he held senior positions at Executone/Staples Communications and at MCI. Earlier in his career, Fitzgerald held sales positions at Mitel Inc., ITT and Xerox Corp.

The award-winning Portsmouth design and development firm CrystalVision announces it has welcomed several new clients to its roster, added four new employees, expanded its multimedia services, and moved to a larger space in Newington. For CrystalVision, 2007 included the design and development of the award-winning Web site TheRemyReport.com, as well as new clients Katahdin Cedar Log Homes, United Way of the Greater Seacoast, Ardent Support Technologies, Burns and Associates, Portsmouth Cosmetic Dentistry and many others. Moving to the beautiful and spacious office in Newington was essential to the expansion of the team. The addition of web developer and multimedia producer Jason Santo allowed for an increased focus on multimedia and expanded service offerings. Applications developers Charles Lavery and Dave Masse also joined the CrystalVision team in 2007, along with administrative/marketing coordinator and Web artist Sheri Santo. Lavery and Masse both bring extensive programming knowledge and expertise to the company, and Santo contributes her vast administrative and marketing experience and artistic abilities for both print and Web. CrystalVision's expertise is in fully integrated, customized solutions that include Web design, Web application development, e-commerce and security, content management systems and maintenance, search engine optimization and marketing, as well as technically specialized Web and e-marketing services.

Fluidnet Corp., an emerging medical device company focused on the development of a revolutionary intravenous therapy administration system, has selected Portsmouth's Calypso Communications to create and implement strategic public relations and integrated marketing communications initiatives in preparation for commercial release of the product in 2009. Closely held Fluidnet, founded in 2002 and based in Portsmouth, is working with nationwide medical industry affiliates and investment partners to commercialize a groundbreaking new approach to safe, reliable and highly advanced intravenous patient therapy. The company selected Calypso because of its broad communications experience and success with health care, technology and entrepreneurial clients.

Port City Web, LLC, (www.PortCityWeb.com) an award-winning, full-service Web site design, development, hosting and online marketing company, announces that Smith & Wesson has selected Port City Web to create an interactive eMarketing flash advertisement to stimulate consumer sales at local dealers to support local economies at the holiday season. The interactive flash will be prominently placed on the Smith & Wesson homepage at http://www.smith-wesson.com. The interactive flash piece has a holiday feel with subtle animation and engages users to "unwrap presents" to learn more about Smith & Wesson's holiday specials. The project is being used to promote special offers on Smith & Wesson's Model 500 and 460 revolvers, i-Bolt rifle, 1000 series shotgun, SW1911 pistol, M&P15 rifle, M&P and Sigma pistols. The online interactive flash piece will run through January 2008, and will run on various Web sites as an advertisement. The objective is to drive consumer sales at local dealers by engaging people and having them interact with the online flash advertisement.

Lawyer Gary Holmes, a senior partner with Holmes & Ells, PLLC of Hampton, recently completed a series of programs sponsored by the University of Denver Graduate Tax Program in Orlando, Fla. The faculty presented strategies for business succession planning as well as advanced concepts in the use of irrevocable trusts for tax planning and asset protection. Holmes has practiced in the area of estate planning for more than 30 years, helping individuals, families and other attorneys throughout New Hampshire develop wealth preservation strategies. Holmes is a member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, Wealth Counsel, a fellow in the New Hampshire Bar Foundation, and serves as a neutral for the New Hampshire Superior Court. Holmes resides in Rye Beach.

The Board of Trustees at York Hospital has announced a new slate of officers for the next two-year term.

Michael McGrath was elected chairman of the board; Lorraine Boston vice chairman; Henry Warner Jr., treasurer; and Leisa Muccio, assistant treasurer. McGrath most recently served as CEO and president of i2 Technologies, a global supply chain management software company based in Dallas, Texas. Boston is the executive vice president and chief lending officer at Kennebunk Savings Bank in Kennebunk. She resides in Sanford. Warner has been serving on the hospital board almost continuously since 1973. A Cape Neddick resident, he is retired. Leisa Muccio will continue her tenure as assistant treasurer. She lives in Kittery, works in the Dining and Nutrition office at York Hospital.

Cindy B. Keohan-Picou, one of the six key leaders at Cummings, Lamont & McNamee, a company comprised of business consultants and financial advisers with offices from Exeter to Kennebunk, Maine, has been named to PKF North American Network's Human Resources Committee for 2008. Keohan-Picou currently serves as Cummings, Lamont & McNamee's director of human resource management, which includes the task of supervising the firm's continuing professional education programs. She is also the company's director of information technology and a member of the Society of Human Resource Management, the Human Resources Association of Southern Maine, and the Association for Accounting Administration.

Peter A. Frid, CEO and general manager of New Hampshire Public Television, was recently re-elected professional vice chair by the PBS board of directors. The PBS board governs and sets policy for the Public Broadcasting Service, and is comprised of 35 members. Frid serves on the PBS board's national policy, executive and station services committees. Frid also was recently elected chair of the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) board of directors. Frid has been New Hampshire Public Television's CEO and general manager for more than 10 years. Within the community, Frid serves as vice chair of television for the New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters, and is a trustee at Riverwoods of Exeter. He is on the N.H. Business and Industry Association board of directors, and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Assembly of Overseers. He holds an master's from Syracuse University and a bachelor's from Rhode Island College. He resides with his family in Madbury.