Planner featured on FoxBusiness.com

MEREDITH — Retirement planning specialist and financial expert David Kutcher of DAK Financial Group LLC is a featured contributor on the national business news site FoxBusiness.com. Kutcher’s article, “Income...Invest Wisely: Worst Time for Seniors in the Last Ten Years,” highlights the importance of investing long-term in products that don’t gamble with your money.

Consumer board adds NH professor

WASHINGTON — Jonathan Zinman, an associate professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, is one of 25 consumer experts chosen by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to serve on its newly formed Consumer Advisory Board. The experts will provide advice to CFPB leadership on consumer financial issues and emerging market trends.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act charges the CFPB with establishing a Consumer Advisory Board to advise and consult with the bureau’s director on consumer financial issues. The board had its first meeting Sept. 27 and 28 in St, Louis. By statute, it will meet at least twice per year. Members will have staggered three-year terms.

Regulatory Compliance hires consultant

LONDONDERRY — Regulatory Compliance LLC, which provides products and services for Securities Broker Dealers and Registered Investment Advisers, hired William Webb as a securities consultant. Webb oversees accounting services and maintains financial records in accordance with federal, state, local and professional requirements.

Adam Lankford joins Bedford Dental Care

BEDFORD — Bedford Dental Care announces the addition of Dr. Adam Lankford to the practice. Lankford received his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the San Antonio School of Dentistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center and is a member of the American Dental Association, the New Hampshire Dental Society and the Academy of General Dentistry. He is accepting new patients.

Hawkinson joins Concord law office

CONCORD — Rath, Young and Pignatelli added attorney Rachel Hawkinson to its employment and environmental law practice groups.

Hawkinson joined the firm after graduating from the University of New Hampshire School of Law in 2012 as a Daniel Webster Scholar. Her practice will focus on employment, education and environmental law.

Changes at the top at Solidscape Inc.

MERRIMACK — After 14 years, David R. Bothwell has retired as president and chief executive officer Solidscape Inc., which manufactures high precision 3D printers for direct manufacturing applications. Fabio M. Esposito has become president of Solidscape. Esposito joined Solidscape in 2007 from Parsytec AG in Germany.

Conway joins Manchester practice

MANCHESTER — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester has named Dr. Nazli R. Conway, to the Rheumatology Department. Conway will be located at the Notre Dame Pavilion at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester. Her clinical interests include rheumatoid arthritis, gout and lupus.