Board of Directors & Staff

Terry Smith
President
President, Unified Operations, LLC
CFO/VP Finance, Airstrike Firefighters, LLC

Scott Jepsen
President Elect
Vice President, External Affairs and Transportation
ConocoPhillips Alaska

Isaac Vanderburg
Secretary
Managing Director
Launch Alaska

Jason Evans
Treasurer
Alaska Media, LLC
Financial Alaska

Mead Treadwell
Past President and Program Co-Chair
Alaska Lt. Governor (2010-2014)

Nils Andreassen
Executive Director, Alaska Municipal League

Larry Baker
Partner
Baker Spoerhase Investments

Admiral Thomas Barrett
President, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company

Moire Bockenstedt
Vice President, Corporate Administration & Government

Bob Cox
President and CEO
Bristol Bay Industrial, LLC

Cheryl Frasca
Co-Chair, Fiscal Policy Study Group
Director, Office of Management and Budget
State of Alaska 2002-2006
Director, Office of Management and Budget
Municipality of Anchorage 2000-2002; 2009-2013

James R. Johnsen
Former President, University of Alaska (2015-2020)

Kris Knauss
Managing Partner, Confluence Strategies

Joe Mathis
Former Vice President of External Affairs
NANA Development Corporation

Craig Richards
Chair, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation Board of Trustees

Gail Schubert
President and CEO, Bering Strait Native Corporation

Preston Simmons
Senior Vice President and Chief Executive, Providence Health & Services Alaska

Bernie Smith
Commissioner, Regulatory Commission of Alaska (1999-2003)

Mark Smith
CEO, Vitus Energy

Ralph Townsend
Director, Professor of Economics
UAA, Institute of Social and Economic Research

Father Leo Walsh
Pastor and Adjutant Judicial Vicar at St. Patrick’s Parrish

Mary Ann Pease
President Emeritus and Program Co-Chair
Chair, Energy Action Coalition
Owner
MAP Consulting.

Eric Wohlforth
President Emeritus
Co-Chair Fiscal Policy Study Group
Attorney
Jermain, Dunnagan & Owens, P.C.
Trustee, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, 1995-2006
Commissioner, Department of Revenue, 1970-1972
Commonwealth North Staff
Wanetta Ayers
Executive Director
Aaron Weddle
Program Director