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Ashooh, Rich

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	2010-01-01

Name

Rich Ashooh

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59 Pasture Lane
Bedford, New Hampshire , United States

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Rich Ashooh is the fiscally conservative candidate for Congress in New Hampshire's First District.

For the last 15 years, Rich has served as a senior executive at BAE Systems, a global aerospace company that is New Hampshire’s largest manufacturer and one of its top private employers. During his tenure, BAE has grown to a nearly $5 billion enterprise, employing thousands of workers. His work with the company has contributed to the success of dozens of programs which have protected and saved the lives of countless U.S. and allied military service men and women.

Rich is a recognized leader in New Hampshire’s business community, having consistently worked to promote and maintain a business and economic climate in the state that enables job growth and prosperity. He serves on the boards of the New Hampshire Business and Industry Association, New England Council, and the National Defense Industrial Association, and has also served on the boards of the New Hampshire Industrial Research Center and a steering committee for the National Association of Manufacturers.

A leader in New Hampshire’s higher education community, Rich currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the University System of New Hampshire, as well as the UNH Foundation board, and also serves as a Trustee for Franklin Pierce University in Rindge. He is the Chairman of the Christa McAuliffe-Alan Shepard Discovery Center Commission, the region’s only air and space museum and a leading STEM center (science, technology, engineering and math), educating students and teachers alike.

Rich’s professional career began in the U.S. Senate, where he served for six years as a senior legislative aide to Senator Warren Rudman in his personal office and on the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.

Sharing Senator Rudman’s passion for fiscal responsibility and debt reduction, Rich became the first State Director of New Hampshire’s Concord Coalition upon his return to the state from Washington, DC taking up the fight to end the chronic deficit spending of the 1990s.

In 2004, Rich was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, where he served on the Platform Committee. He has participated with the non-partisan ONE campaign to reduce global poverty and disease, and was proud to co-chair the ONE-Vote ‘08 effort during the 2008 NH Presidential Primary.

Rich has been named to the New Hampshire Union Leader’s “Forty under 40” and in 2009 Business New Hampshire Magazine named him one of the state’s “most powerful.”

Rich was born in Manchester and has been a life-long New Hampshire resident. He attended Manchester’s Catholic schools and is proud to have graduated from the University of New Hampshire. Rich and his wife Lori live in Bedford with their five children: Sofie, Emma, Elias, Maya, and Sam, and their dog, Kenai.

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