NMDC hires Fort Fairfield native as accountant
CARIBOU — Officials with Northern Maine Development Commission (NMDC) have announced the hiring of Matt Tompkins as accountant.
Tompkins, of Fort Fairfield, 
graduated from the University of Maine Presque Isle with a bachelor of arts in business administration with a concentration in accounting. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Accounting award in the 2013-14 academic year. Tompkins also served as treasurer of the UMPI Business Club and was a Junior Achievement mentor at the most recent Titan Challenge business competition.
“Matt is a great example of a local person who availed himself of a quality education at one of the region’s four institutions of higher learning and found a career right here in Aroostook County,” said NMDC Executive Director Bob Clark. “We are pleased to have Matt on staff and look forward to his contributions to the organization.”
“The opportunity to work for NMDC was one I could not pass up due to their commitment to serving and bettering Aroostook County, an area I have grown up in and want to see prosper,” Tompkins said.
A member of the Fort Fairfield Lions and Fort Fairfield Fish and Game Club, he is also active as a coach, of baseball and basketball, at both the recreation department and middle school levels.
Tompkins’s first day at NMDC was Dec. 1.
