Patrick Anderson, Anchorage, AK

"I feel like I represent the needs and desires of a lot of our younger shareholders for cultural knowledge and information. What I hope to achieve on the Sealaska board is to lend my professional perspective to the debate over what Sealaska is going to be in the future."

Patrick Anderson has been a member of the board since 1989. He serves on the Finance Committee and the Compensation Committee. Patrick also serves as a director of Kánaak Corporation, Nypro Kánaak Guadalajara, Nypro Kánaak Alabama and Sealaska Environmental Services, LLC.

Patrick is the father of three children and a member of Tlingit Nation, Eagle Tribe, Thunderbird Clan and Thunderbird House of Yakutat/Dry Bay. He is a descendant of the Alutiiq—his late father Clifford was raised in Cordova, AK.

Patrick is employed as the executive director of Chugachmiut, a nonprofit tribal organization based in Anchorage, AK serving the Chugach Native people. He has a bachelor's degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School. He has also served in the past as an attorney in private practice, a professor of public administration and law science at the University of Alaska Southeast, a lobbyist for the Municipality of Anchorage, and director of the Alaska Economic Development Center.

Patrick applies his professional and business experience to the Sealaska Board of Directors to help "stabilize and grow Sealaska into a corporation that has meaning for the lives of its shareholders." He acknowledges that that means different things to different shareholders, but his own philosophy is simple: preserve the assets for future generations, but use and manage them wisely to provide benefit for the current generation.

He feels one of his major contributions to Sealaska is helping to "set the strategic direction for the Corporation. Putting together a good strategic plan takes a substantial commitment of time and energy, and following through requires an ability to remain focused on the plan."

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