RIGHT MOVES Alaska Business Tasha Anderson has been named Alaska Business's new Managing Editor. Having served the company for just under a decade in a variety Anderson of roles, Anderson was the clear choice for the job. She’s excited to lead the magazine to new heights and looks forward to keeping Alaska’s business community in the loop on the latest and greatest in the Last Frontier.
Tlingit & Haida The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is pleased to announce the hire of Dr. Tina Woods as the Senior Woods Director of Community & Behavioral Services. In this position, Woods is responsible for the strategic development of the new Community & Behavioral Services Division which will provide leadership oversight of the Reentry & Recovery and Tribal Family & Youth Services departments. Woods is a licensed clinical psychologist and holds a PhD in clinical-community psychology with a rural Indigenous emphasis from the UA system.
United Way United Way of Anchorage recently announced two new appointments. Aminata Taylor was hired as its CFO. Taylor, a certified public accountant, most recently served as CFO for Camp Fire Alaska. She has worked in finance, information technology, and human
resources in both nonprofit and for-profit enterprises, including CliftonLarsonAllen, where she specialized in tax compliance for nonprofits. A Taylor 2012 graduate of Coe College in Iowa, Taylor earned a master’s in accounting at the Kaplan University School of Business in Chicago in 2016. Kayla Green joined United Way of Anchorage as Director of People and Culture. Green now helps build an organization that both responds to an ever-changing Green Anchorage and achieves United Way’s constant mission to improve lives. She earned a master’s in human resources at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University in 2014 and a bachelor’s in psychology at Brigham Young University–Idaho in 2011.
McKinley Alaska Private Investment Penny Gage joins McKinley Alaska Private Investment as a Private Equity Associate working from the Anchorage office. She brings a diverse Gage background in Alaska economic development; entrepreneur support and training; federal and state government; the nonprofit sector; energy policy; and international affairs. Gage most recently worked at the University of Alaska Center for Economic Development. Gage received her bachelor’s from the UAF and a master’s in foreign service from Georgetown University with a certificate in international business diplomacy.
AK NSF EPSCoR Alaska NSF EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) has named Dr. Brenda Konar as the new Principal Investigator and Project Director of its Fire & Ice research project. Konar is a professor of marine biology with the UAF College Konar of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. She has served since 2018 as a co-PI of Fire & Ice, an interdisciplinary effort to study climate-driven changes to Alaska’s boreal fire regimes and its coastal ecosystems. Konar holds a bachelor’s in biology from San Jose State University, a master’s in marine biology from Moss Landing Marine Labs in California, and a PhD in biology from UC-Santa Cruz.
BDO BDO USA announced Chad Estes has been named Tax Office Managing Partner for the Anchorage office. In his new role, Estes oversees the local tax practice and continues working with clients in various industries including construction, government contracting, real estate, natural resources, Estes retail, and hospitality. Estes works with many Alaska Native corporations and their subsidiaries on federal and state corporate income tax, ANCSA, ANST, and M&A issues. Estes received his bachelor’s in accounting and Master of Accountancy from the University of Wyoming.
Ampersand Ampersand announced the hire of Keith
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