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RDC elects board, Wendy Lindskoog is new President

Wendy Lindskoog has ascended to President of the Resource Development Council, filling a vacancy left by the resignation of Rick Rogers.

Rogers was recently re-elected President of RDC at the organization’s 34th Annual Meeting in Anchorage June 30th, but stepped down in July when he was named the Alaska Statewide Forest Resource Manager for the Alaska Division of Forestry in the Department of Natural Resources. Rogers worked for Chugach Alaska Corporation for 12 years as Vice President, Land and Resources. He was first elected President of RDC in 2008 and had served as Senior Vice President for several years prior.

Phil Cochrane, Vice President, External Affairs, at BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., will serve as RDC’s Senior Vice President. Stephanie Madsen, Executive Director of the At-Sea Processors Association was reelected as Secretary and Tom Maloney, Vice President, Business Development at CH2M HILL, was re-elected as Treasurer.

Lindskoog has served on the RDC Executive Committee for eight years and most recently was Senior Vice President. Outside RDC, she is Assistant Vice President, Corporate Affairs, for the Alaska Railroad Corporation. Prior to joining the Alaska Railroad, Lindskoog was communications director for the Alaska State Senate, a partner in a regional publication, and marketing and sales manager for a California ski resort.

She has served as Chair of the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce and Alaska 20/20. She and her spouse, Jim Cardwell, reside in Anchorage with their daughter Tindra.

Newly-elected to the RDC Executive Committee were Bob Berto, Cruise Line Agencies of Alaska, Ketchikan; Dale Pittman, ExxonMobil, Anchorage; Ralph Samuels, Holland America Line, Anchorage; Lorna Shaw, Fairbanks Gold Mining and Council of Alaska Producers, Fairbanks, and Tiel Smith, Bristol Bay Native Corporation, Anchorage.

Newly elected to the statewide Board were David Benton, Marine Conservation Alliance, Juneau; Dan Britton, Fairbanks Natural Gas LLC, Fairbanks; Mayor David Carey, Kenai; David Chaput, Alaska Frontier Constructors, Anchorage; Allan Dolynny, WorleyParsons, Anchorage; Dan Graham, PacRim Coal LP, Anchorage; Paul Henry, Anglo American US LLC, Anchorage; Linda Leary, Carlile Transportation, Anchorage; Carri Lockhart, Marathon Oil Company, Anchorage; Mary Nelson, Donlin Creek LLC, Anchorage; Charlie Powers, Koniag Inc., Kodiak, and Mayor Dan Sullivan, Anchorage.

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