Baker team fills business posts
The incoming Baker administration has tapped a Dorchester community development director and a former member of the Romney administration for posts within the Office of Housing and Community Development.
The assistant secretary for business development will be Nam Pham, who is the executive director of for VietAID, which bills itself as the first Vietnamese-American community development corporation. The undersecretary for consumer affairs and business regulations will be John Chapman, a Cape Cod Republican who challenged Congressman William Keating last year.
The two will serve under Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash, who said in a statement: "Their experience in economic development and consumer protection will be crucial to helping the administration better serve the commonwealth."
Chapman was former Gov. Mitt Romney's commissioner of the Department of Industrial Accidents and undersecretary for the Office of Economic Development.
Pham was commissioner of the Office of Refugees and Immigrants in the Weld and Cellucci administrations and Baker made frequent reference to Pham's success in the Fields Corner section of Dorchester on the campaign trail.
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