Join us for our 2024 Libertas Award Dinner with Gov. Doug Ducey and N.H. entrepreneur Peter T. Paul!
Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey headlines the Josiah Bartlett Center’s 2024 Libertas Award Dinner on Sat., Oct. 5, honoring N.H. entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter T. Paul.
Join us and many of the state’s top business and political leaders in Concord as we celebrate the amazing accomplishments of Gov. Ducey and Peter Paul, two champions of free enterprise.
We’ll start with a reception featuring fine hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar from 6-7, followed by a filet mignon dinner as we gather to toast the New Hampshire Advantage and one of its foremost business leaders. We’ll have a few fun, surprise auction items as well, which you won’t want to miss!
About Gov. Doug Ducey:
As Arizona governor, Doug Ducey successfully championed numerous historic policy initiatives, prompting the Associated Press to write that he “reshaped the state.” He cut spending to erase an inherited budget deficit of more than $1 billion. He enacted the country’s lowest flat tax, lifted unnecessary licensing requirements that made it harder for Arizonans to work, eliminated or improved more than 3,365 regulations (the equivalent of a $183 million tax cut), pioneered universal school choice for Arizona families, required students to pass a civics test for high school graduation, and managed to increase public school teacher pay. Because of his insistence on pursuing free-market, pro-growth policies, Arizona’s economy thrived. When he left office, the state government had 5,000 fewer employees and the state had 500,000 more people employed in the private sector. Columnist George Will called Ducey the “most successful 21st century governor.” Gov. Ducey currently serves as CEO of Citizens for Free Enterprise, a national political and issue advocacy organizations dedicated to promoting and protecting free enterprise.
About Peter T. Paul:
Born and raised in Troy, N.H., Peter T. Paul graduated from UNH in 1967 with a B.S. in business administration, then got his MBA from BU. He is founder and president of Headlands Asset Management LLC, owner and chairman of Peter Paul Wines in San Rafael, Calif., and president of West Biofuels. He also founded and serves as chairman of The Headlands Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses on making life better for children and their families. Mr. Paul founded Headlands Mortgage Company in 1986, growing it into one of the nation’s premier wholesale lending institutions. His generous giving includes exceptional support for UNH, which in 2013 rechristened its business school the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. Mr. Paul is a recipient of the Ernst and Young 1999 Financial Services Entrepreneur of the Year award. He received an alumni award for distinguished service from The Graduate School of Management at Boston University in May 2003 and the first annual Achievement in Business Award from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at University of New Hampshire, in April of 2008.
About the Libertas Award Dinner:
Date: Sat., Oct. 5, 2024
Time: 6-8 p.m.
Location: Grappone Conference Center, Concord, N.H.
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