Board of Directors & Staff
Scott Jepsen
President
past Vice President, External Affairs and Transportation
ConocoPhillips Alaska
Isaac Vanderburg
Secretary
Managing Director
Launch Alaska
Terry Smith
Past President
President, Unified Operations, LLC
CFO/VP Finance, Airstrike Firefighters, LLC
Nils Andreassen
Executive Director, Alaska Municipal League
Larry Baker
Partner
Baker Spoerhase Investments
Admiral Thomas Barrett
Former president, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
Ryan Binkley
Publisher, Anchorage Daily News
Moire Bockenstedt
Vice President, Corporate Administration & Government
Bob Cox
President and CEO
Bristol Bay Industrial, LLC
Jason Evans
Treasurer
Alaska Media, LLC
Financial Alaska
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
Cathy Giessel
AK State Senator (2011–2021)
Kris Knauss
Managing Partner, Confluence Strategies
Joe Mathis
Former Vice President of External Affairs
NANA Development Corporation
Becky Windt Pearson
Senior Vice President, GCI
Craig Richards
Chair, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation Board of Trustees
Marilyn Romano
Regional Vice President
Alaska Airlines
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