As it prepares to relocate offices to Miracle Mile in Lebanon from its longtime base in Lyme, information technology services provider and government contractor Lyme Computer Systems has announced a management change at the top.
Josh Longacre, who had been vice president of operations and sales, has been named chief executive officer and president.
Longacre, who joined Lyme Computer in 2009, will now be responsible for the strategic goals and overall leadership of the company.
He succeeds Judy Vinson, who had been with Lyme Computer since 1998.
In addition, Hank Flickinger has been promoted to the newly-created position of chief financial officer. He had previously been controller.
Longacre said the changes are part of the planned management transition of Lyme Computer, which began in 2008 when it became an employee-owned company.
Next month, Lyme Computer, founded in 1983, will move into new office space in the same building in which Pathways Consulting is located and adjacent to what is now Gardener’s Supply nursery and greenhouse in Lebanon.
After six years at the helm of the upscale Woodstock Inn & Resort, President and General Manager Gary Thulander is departing to become managing director of the luxurious — but bigger — Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Thulander, in an interview, said the decision to leave Woodstock was “strictly family” — his daughter and her young family reside a few minutes away in Brewster; his son is moving back from Park City, Utah, to teach on the cape and Thulander and his wife, Mary, had bought a house in Brewster and always planned to retire there.
“That was the plan anyway,” he joked. “Now, it’s going to become a full-time scenario.”
Taking over for Thulander, whose last day at the Woodstock Inn will be July 10, will be John Hallowell, a longtime hospitality industry executive who has worked both at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Disney World and has been a director of the Woodstock Resort Corp. since 2009.
During Thulander’s tenure, the Woodstock Inn invested $16 million to upgrade the resort, including the entrance, front desk reception area, public areas and a complete refurbishing of all 142 rooms. Thulander said the improvements have helped to achieve “five record years of revenues and profits.”
“Gary has not only re-established the Woodstock Inn and Resort as a dominant hospitality force in New England, but he has strengthened the bonds between the resort and the town of Woodstock in many important ways,” said Douglas Horne, chairman of Woodstock Resort Corp., in a news release.
The Woodstock Resort Corp., besides the Inn, includes the Suicide Six ski area, the Woodstock County Club, the Woodstock Athletic Club and a 1,500-acre tract with 35 residential homes.
The for-profit resort is owned and operated by the nonprofit Woodstock Foundation, which also operates the Billings Farm & Museum center in Woodstock.
Chatham Bars Inn, which recently completed a $100 million renovation, has 217 rooms.
Scott Olmstead has joined the Claremont and Newport insurance agency The Insurance Center as senior vice president, where he will work with company president Bob Sammon in managing the Claremont office and taking a key role in the firm’s strategic planning, operations and growth.
Olmstead, a 35-year veteran in the property and casualty insurance industry, most recently was with the Keene office of Brattleboro-based insurance and financial service firm The Richards Group.
— John Lippman
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