RIGHT MOVES The Eyak Corporation Eyak, the Alaska Native village corporation for Cordova, is replacing their outgoing longtime CEO with one plucked from a Mack Native regional corporation. Thomas Mack is the new CEO of The Eyak Corporation, upon Rod Worl’s retirement after seventeen years as CEO. Mack previously worked with The Aleut Corporation, first as president and the last four years as CEO. Mack was raised in King Cove and earned a master of business administration degree from Alaska Pacific University.
Colville, Inc. Oil and gas logistics firm Colville, Inc. has a new Chief Operating Officer. Kelly Droop takes over day-to-day management Droop of the company’s statewide facilities and tanker truck fleet. Colville operates year-round hauling and storing fuel, provides industrial supply and retail automotive parts through its Brooks Range Supply and NAPA stores, and owns and operates Brooks Camp in Deadhorse, all primarily for oil and gas industry customers. Droop comes to the company from Worley, where she was vice president of Alaska field services. She is also the current president of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance.
Bristol Wave Seafoods Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC) and Bristol Bay Alaska Seafoods (BBAS)
appointed Joel Peterson to serve as President of Bristol Wave Seafoods, a subsidiary of BBAS. Bristol Wave manages the sales and operations Peterson of BBAS’s nine-vessel fleet, which was formed in 2019 when Clipper Seafoods and Blue North Fisheries merged their operations and BBNC acquired a majority interest in the combined company. Peterson started his new role on January 11, 2022, working alongside David Little, who serves as CEO. Little, founder of Clipper Seafoods, has served as president of the operating companies since the 2019 merger. Peterson graduated with an MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business. He fished on Clipper Seafoods vessels for more than ten years and has been working in sales since 2015.
Tlingit & Haida The Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska brings in two new managers, one of them in a newly formed department. Lindoff Tlingit & Haida’s Tribal Operations division welcomed Anthony Lindoff as the new Food Security Manager. One of the department’s efforts is to get Southeast Alaska Native foods into a tribe-wide distribution program. Lindoff’s Tlingit name is Khaakhootee and he is Kaagwaantaan (Eagle Wolf) from the Gooch Hit (Wolf House of Klukwan). Lindoff earned a degree in international business from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado in 2008, and he owns and operates Kaawu Shellfish Co., an oyster
farm near Hoonah. Since 2013, Lindoff has been a member of the Huna Totem Corporation board of directors. Jamie “JC” Cowan Cowan comes aboard as Business & Economic Development Manager with the Tribal Development division. Cowan's responsibilities include collaborating to bring in grant funding, coordinating on the initiation of capital projects, and developing entrepreneurship programs in tribal communities. Cowan was born in Oakland, California and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She holds a bachelor of science degree in applied management from Grand Canyon University. Cowan recently worked for Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium as a seniorlevel executive assistant and provider recruitment coordinator.
Fidelity Title Agency Fidelity Title Agency of Alaska brought in Barbara Clements as Senior Title Officer. Clements was previously at Alyeska Title Clements Guaranty Agency as chief title officer. With more than thirty-five years in the title industry, Clements is experienced in all aspects of examining property titles throughout the state for both residential and commercial customers.
Mt. McKinley Bank Mt. McKinley Bank in Fairbanks promoted Jenny Mahlen to Senior Vice President, Commercial Lending. Mahlen
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