Pictured above are members of the 2013-14 RDC statewide Board of Directors and staff who attended the 38th Annual Meeting at the Dena’ina Convention Center in Anchorage June 26. Pictured sitting in the front row from right to left are President Phil Cochrane, Vice President Ralph Samuels, Senior Vice President Len Horst, Treasurer Eric Fjelstad, and Executive Committee member Scott Jepsen.

New RDC board elected at Annual Meeting

RDC announced the election of its new Board of Directors for 2013-14 at its 38th Annual Meeting Luncheon at the Dena’ina Convention Center in Anchorage June 26.

Phil Cochrane, Vice President of External Affairs at BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc., was re-elected to his second consecutive term as President. Also re-elected were Senior Vice President Len Horst, a Senior Vice President and Commercial Loan Manager at Northrim Bank, Vice President Ralph Samuels, the Vice President of Government and Community Relations at Holland America Line, Treasurer Eric Fjelstad, an attorney at Perkins Coie, and Secretary Lorna Shaw, External Affairs Manager at Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo LLC.

Newly elected to the RDC Executive Committee was Kim Fox, ExxonMobil, Anchorage. New incoming board members were Anna Atchison, Kinross-Fort Knox, Fairbanks; Admiral Tom Barrett, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Anchorage; John Boyle, North Slope Borough, Anchorage; Jason Brune, Anglo American US (Pebble), Anchorage; Mike Ferris, Alaska Enterprise Solutions, Anchorage; Pat Foley, Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska, Anchorage; Rock Hengen, NANA WorleyParsons, Anchorage; Michael Jesperson, Anchorage; Eddie Packee, Travis/Peterson Environmental Consulting, Fairbanks; Shannon Price, Flint Hills Resources, North Pole, and Doug Ward, Alaska Ship and Drydock, Ketchikan. To view the full board, visit akrdc.org.

Nearly 60 board members from across the state attended the four hour board meeting, which preceded the 1,000-seat Annual Meeting luncheon featuring David Holt, President of Consumer Energy Alliance, and Janet Weiss, President, BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. The two presenters also spoke at the board meeting and fielded questions from the board. The board also received the latest updates from Alaska’s resource industries and addressed common issues which all these industries face.

Nearly 60 RDC board members from across the state met at the RDC Annual Meeting June 26 in Anchorage to discuss opportunities and challenges facing Alaska’s resource industries and the economy.

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