Kookesh re-elected as Sealaska chair

Sealaska held its annual shareholders’ meeting Saturday, June 23 at Juneau’s Thunder Mountain High School with a shareholder’s fair and comments from board of directors’ candidates on both sides of a term-limits resolution.

The meeting also included a business report and election results.

Approximately 400 tribal member shareholders and guests attended the meeting in person, with another 420 households participating via webcast.

The board of directors re-elected Senator Albert M. Kookesh to serve as board chair and Dr. Rosita Worl to serve as board vice chair at a meeting following the annual meeting.

Sealaska management were also renewed by the board including: Chris E. McNeil Jr., president and CEO; Rick Harris, executive vice president; Doug Morris, vice president and chief financial officer; Anthony Mallott, chief investment officer and treasurer; Jaeleen Araujo, vice president and general counsel; and Nicole Hallingstad, vice president and corporate secretary.

A shareholder resolution to limit board members four complete three-year terms, with permanent ineligibility thereafter, failed with only 29 percent of shareholders voting for the measure.

Sealaska’s membership equals about 21,000 shareholders, with many of those living outside Alaska.