Judi Window
Managing Director
Granite State Ambassadors, Inc.
jwindow@nhgsa.com
Judi
Window is a founder and is managing director of the award winning
Granite State Ambassadors, Inc. (GSA). GSA, Inc. is New Hampshire’s
premier hospitality training program; training and managing volunteers
and employees who serve on the front lines at visitor centers
throughout the State of New Hampshire. Since 1996 GSAs have given over
120,000 hours of volunteer service providing personal assistance to
over 1 million guests visiting New Hampshire. GSA, Inc. was named 2004
Tourism/Hospitality Business of the Year by Business NH Magazine.
Window worked
in NH’s banking industry for 12 years and served for over 30 years promoting
arts and culture in New Hampshire.
Prior to developing GSA, Inc., Window served as executive director of
Southern NH Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. She is a life long, fifth
generation, resident of New
Hampshire. Among her singular achievements were the
renovation and grand re-opening of the Adam’s Memorial Opera House in Derry,
NH, and she spent a holiday season touring with the Boston Ballet in “The
Nutcracker”.
Window is
currently involved in many boards and committees supporting the tourism
industry such as the NH Tourism Advisory Board, Vice Chair of New England
Visitor Center Association’s State Advisory, Greater Manchester Chamber of
Commerce Board of Directors as well as the Chamber’s Tourism Advisory board.
Judi also serves as Chair for the Selective Service Systems’ State Board of
Appeals for New Hampshire.
Judi was the recipient of the 1997 Mildred A. Beach
“Tourism Person of the Year” award and
was named one of New Hampshire’s “Movers and Shakers” by Derry News in
1995. She lives in Manchester,
New Hampshire with her husband,
daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren.