RIGHT MOVES Matson With the retirement of Bal Dreyfus from Matson, effective July 1, the shipping company named Vic Angoco to succeed him Angoco as Senior Vice President, Alaska. Currently responsible for Matson’s Hawaii, Guam, Micronesia, and South Pacific operations as senior vice president, Pacific, Angoco joined Matson in 1996 as operations manager on Guam and quickly rose through the ranks in sales, customer service, and operations management positions. He was promoted to his current position in 2010. Matson also promoted the director of Alaska terminal operations, Jennifer Tungul, to Vice President, Operations for Alaska. In her new Tungul position, Tungul has primary management responsibility for Matson’s terminal operations in Anchorage, Kodiak, and Dutch Harbor. Tungul joined Matson’s Alaska operations in 2002 and has served in a series of finance and operations leadership roles, including terminal manager in Dutch Harbor. She was promoted to general manager for Dutch Harbor in 2019 and to her current position later that same year.
Kodiak Area Native Association Mike Pfeffer can take the “interim” away from the CEO title he’s held at Kodiak Area Native Association (KANA) for the last year. The nonprofit healthcare affiliate of Koniag regional corporation chose Pfeffer for the
position after a nationwide search. Prior to becoming interim CEO last year, Pfeffer served as chief operating officer and chief financial Pfeffer officer during his sixteen years with KANA. Pfeffer earned a master’s degree in business administration from UAS and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Colorado Technical University.
Alaska Communications A former Alaska Communications manager returns to the Anchoragebased telecom as Chief Operating Officer. Sandy Knechtel Knechtel most recently served as area manager for Alaska and Hawaii for Gartner, a global research and advisory company. Prior to Gartner, Knechtel served in various management roles for Alaska Communications, spanning sales operations, workforce development, and marketing and analytics. Knechtel has an MBA in marketing and strategy from Indiana University Bloomington. He also has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Western University.
McKinley Management Two subsidiaries of McKinley Management promoted new directors. McKinley Research Group named Katie Berry as its Berry Director of Economics and Research. Berry has been with the firm for five years. Berry holds a master's degree in economics and finance from
the University of Wyoming. She was raised in Anchorage and returned to the state after working with Union Pacific Railroad. She is especially interested in issues that affect Alaska, such as transportation, infrastructure, public health, tourism, and natural resources. McKinley Capital Management made Martino Boffa its Director of Sustainability, Portfolio Manager. Boffa joined Boffa McKinley Capital in 2009 as director of alternative investments, portfolio manager. He has almost thirty years of investment industry experience. Prior to McKinley, Boffa worked as the senior director of arbitrage strategies with Credit Suisse and managed a market neutral investment portfolio. Prior to that, he worked at Société Générale where he was managing director of hedge fund sales, specializing in European equities.
United Way of Anchorage A twenty-year veteran of Alaska nonprofits is joining United Way of Anchorage’s senior executive leadership team. As Senior Vice President, Morse Rachel Morse works to align United Way’s different sections— fundraising, community advancement, and marketing and communications—into a more unified, complementary, and effective force. She also works closely with donors, volunteers, and partner organizations. Morse holds master’s degrees in business administration from UAA and in forestry and natural resources from Purdue University. For the last four
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