For Immediate Release
Contact:
Matthew Cookson, USNH, 603-862-0904 Matt.cookson@usnh.edu
Adrienne Rupp, NH BIA, 603-224-5388, x114 arupp@nhbia.org

University System of NH Board Chair Andrew Lietz Receives NH Business and Industry Association Lifetime Achievement Award

November 1, 2007 – Concord, NH – Andrew Lietz, the current chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University System of New Hampshire and former president and CEO of Hadco, received the Business and Industry Association’s 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award on November 1st. Established in 1993, the annual BIA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a business leader who has demonstrated a commitment to leadership in his or her profession, community and New Hampshire. Lietz accepted the award during the BIA Annual Dinner.

A graduate of Wayne State University with a degree in business administration, Andrew Lietz is currently the managing director of Rye Capital Management, a private equity investment firm he founded in 2001. From 2000 to 2002, Lietz served as executive chairman of Clare Corp., a manufacturer of electronic products and services. He was also the chief operating officer and vice president of Hadco from 1991 to 1995, president and CEO from 1995 to 2000 and a director of the corporation from 1993 to 2000.

In his acceptance speech, Lietz gave an impassioned plea for more private-sector involvement in New Hampshire higher education, particularly public higher education. He told the 700 attendees at the Center of New Hampshire Radisson that the state has world-class education institutions deserving of support. He cautioned that government should not be expected to foot the full bill and he urged businesses to help in any way they could.

Lietz is currently a director of Amphenol Corp., Details Dynamic Corp. and Safeguard Scientifics. He has served on the USNH Board of Trustees since 2001 and as chairman since 2004. He is a former chair of the board of the Business and Industry Association.

Lifetime Achievement Award recipients help shape their local communities and the state through their successful business endeavors, active participation in civic and town organizations, involvement in boards, and service to local and state government.

Past award winners are Stephen Barba, the Balsams Grand Resort (and now with Plymouth State University); Sylvio Dupuis, Notre Dame College; Courtland Freese and George Freese, Jr., Globe Manufacturing Co.; John Frisbee, New Hampshire Historical Society; William S. Green, Sheehan, Phinney, Bass and Green; Saul Greenspan, Seco; Eli Isaacson, Isaacson Structural Steel; Malcolm McLane, Orr and Reno; Jack Middleton, McLane, Graf, Raulerson and Middleton; John Morrison II, Hitchiner Manufacturing; J. Bonnie Newman, Kennedy School of Government; Walter Peterson, Franklin Pierce College; Henry Powers, Sprague Energy; David Putnam, Markem Corp.; F. Fuller Ripley, Troy Mills; William Ruger, Sr., Sturm Ruger and Co.; Neil Tillotson, Tillotson Corp.; James Wagner, Nexfor Fraser Papers; and Kimon Zachos, Sheehan Phinney Bass and Green.

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