GRANITE STATE - Key Persons

Allison Potter - Chairman

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Chairman
Chairman of the Board

Colin Van Ostern

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Member of the Board
Independent Board Director for the New Hampshire Biofabrication Cluster
New Hampshire Business Leader

Colin Van Ostern is a New Hampshire business leader with experience leading purpose-driven teams in higher education, tech, consumer goods, and politics & government. Most recently, he served as President & Chief Operating Officer of Alumni Ventures from 2019-2023, and previously was Chief Marketing Officer at SNHU's online College for America, which he helped launch and grow to more than 10,000 students and graduates nationwide. Colin was publicly elected twice to New Hampshire's five-member Executive Council (which serves as a board of directors for the state government) from 2012-2016 and was a candidate for Governor in 2016. Colin currently serves as an independent Board Director for the New Hampshire Biofabrication Cluster. He holds a BA in International Studies from The George Washington University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Colin lives with his wife Kristyn and two sons in Concord, NH.

Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro

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Director of Strategic Communications and Community Engagement for the New Hampshire Women 's Foundation

Daniel Weeks

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Vice Chair
Vice Chair of the Board

Devan Quinn

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Director of Policy
Director of Policy at the New Hampshire Women 's Foundation

Erin Zagadailov

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Member of the Board

Hope Damon

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Secretary
Secretary of the Board

Ila Bertenstein

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Staff Member

Jennifer Gilkie

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Member of the Board
Chief Communications & Marketing Officer for Dartmouth - Hitchcock Health

Jennifer Gilkie is the Chief Communications & Marketing Officer for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. Jen has over 20 years of broad-based management experience in both the private and not-for-profit sectors. Previously Jen served as vice president, external affairs for New York-Presbyterian. During her time with NYP, Jen led all regional communications, marketing, public relations, local government, and community affairs efforts for the network's four regional hospitals and the affiliated healthcare organizations and medical groups.

Joanna "Jo" Kelley

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Member of the Board

Joe Keefe

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Member of the Board

Karen Tebbenhoff

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Director of Operations and Events

Lauren Wool

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Director of Grantmaking

Linda S. Johnson

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Member of the Board
Director With McLane Middleton

Linda Johnson is a director with McLane Middleton, Professional Association which has offices in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. She has over 30 years of experience litigating cases in state and federal agencies and courts, and in representing the interests of management in all aspects of labor and employment law. In addition to serving as the firm's lead labor and employment lawyer, Linda served as the chair of the firm's Employment Law and Education Law Groups for over 15 years. Linda continues to help lead the firm's employment law services and to assist companies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts for all their employment law needs. Linda is currently Co-Chair of McLane's Education Law Group and focuses her practice on understanding and serving the needs of independent and boarding schools.

Lyndsay N. Robinson

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Member of the Board

Lynne Schiffman Delise

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Member of the Board

Maggie Goodlander

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Member of the Board
Counsel to Attorney General Merrick Garland

Maggie Goodlander is currently Counsel to Attorney General Merrick Garland. Prior to joining the U.S. Department of Justice, Maggie taught constitutional law and administrative law at the UNH School of Law. Maggie has spent much of the past decade working in legal and policy positions in each branch of the United States government and in both houses of Congress. She served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, as a senior advisor to United States Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman, and as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment and Senate trial of President Donald Trump. Born and raised in Nashua, Maggie is a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve and serves on the board of directors of New Hampshire Legal Assistance and the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire. She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.