Kyle Kirn was promoted to Audit Manager. Kirn brings five years of accounting experience with a variety of organizations, including Alaska Native corporations, construction, renewable energy, and fishing. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s in accounting from Brigham Young University.
Lucas Smith was also promoted to Audit Manager. Smith brings five years of accounting experience and works with both public and private companies throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has extensive experience in the railroad, mining, and consumer products industries. Smith earned both his bachelor’s and master’s from Montana State University.
Randall Rozier has been an architect and project manager with Bettisworth North Architects and Planners for fifteen years. He will be involved with business direction, project management practices, and strategy.
Leah Boltz leads marketing, branding, communications, community outreach, business development, and client service for Bettisworth North Architects and Planners. Her role as principal will emphasize deepening client relationships and enhancing the client experience.
KeyBank named Debra Pellati as Senior Client Experience Manager. In her new role, Pellati is responsible for collaborating with the Key Private Bank team to ensure an exemplary client experience by providing goal-based planning solutions to high net-worth clients in both the KeyBank Oregon and Alaska teams. Pellati holds an MBA from the International College of Cayman Islands/University of Tampa; a graduate diploma in business, finance, and financial management services from Lakehead University; and a certificate in adult education from the University of Manitoba.
Borghesan moved to Fairbanks to clerk for Justice Daniel E. Winfree of the Alaska Supreme Court after graduating from Michigan Law School in 2008. Borghesan has since worked for the Alaska Department of Law in the roles of special assistant to the attorney general, assistant attorney general handling civil appeals, and most recently the supervising attorney of the department’s civil appeals section.
Jamgochian graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2004 and came to Alaska to clerk for Superior Court Judge Gleason. For the past fourteen years, Jamgochian has served as an assistant district attorney in Bethel, Fairbanks, and Nome.
Foley & Pearson announced Chelsea Ray Riekkola has become a Shareholder. Riekkola joined Foley & Pearson in September 2014 after earning her juris doctorate from the University of Oregon. Her practice focuses on will and trust planning, probate and trust administration, and business planning. Riekkola is co-chair of the Estate Planning and Probate Section of the Alaska Bar Association, former president of the Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers, and a board member of the Anchorage Library Foundation.
Robert J. Misulich is a Business Shareholder specializing in corporate governance; corporate services; government contracts; labor, employment, and benefits; and Native American law. He regularly represents Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) as outside corporate counsel in a broad range of matters, including corporate governance, shareholder meetings, proxy solicitations, and business transactions and compliance.
Matt Singer is a Litigation Shareholder with an extensive trial and appellate practice. Singer has handled jury and bench trials in state and federal courts and has argued more than twenty-five appeals to the Alaska Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. His diverse practice emphasizes complex litigation and natural resources law in Alaska and Oregon courts.
Christopher J. Slottee is a Litigation Shareholder with extensive experience in matters related to ANCs, ANC settlement trusts, tribal governments, and government contracting. He previously served as vice president and general counsel for an ANC. Slottee regularly represents businesses in both litigation and transactional matters—advising them on risk management, business transactions, employment law, and government contracting issues.
Howard S. Trickey is a Litigation Shareholder with forty years of experience as a trial and appellate lawyer representing a diverse group of clients across many industries and practice areas. Trickey has also devoted a substantial part of his practice to employment law and traditional labor relations and represented ANCs, Fortune 500 companies, privately-owned companies, nonprofits, and school districts.
Lee Baxter is a Litigation and Dispute Resolution of Counsel who practices in commercial litigation, real property matters, Indian and Alaska Native law, government relations, and contracting.
Peter A. Scully is a Litigation and Dispute Resolution of Counsel who practices commercial litigation, corporate governance, business formation, construction contracting, real estate, and Alaska Native law.
Dr. Karen Carey has been appointed Interim Chancellor at the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS). As Interim Chancellor, Carey provides strategic leadership in fulfilling UAS’ mission, including budget development, academic planning and program assessments, student and enrollment services, administrative services, and community relations.
She earned her PhD in school psychology from the University of Cincinnati, focusing on the ecological factors influencing young children and their families. She also holds a master of science in school psychology from the University of Nevada and a bachelor of science in psychology from San Diego State University.
TJ Alinen joins Northrim as Human Resources Director with twenty years of human resources experience in Alaska and Arizona. He was recently the vice president of human resources at the Calista Corporation prior to joining Northrim. Alinen holds a bachelors and an MBA from Wayland Baptist University. He is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources and a Senior Certified Professional in Human Resources.
Amanda Clayton comes to Northrim as Commercial Loan Officer with nineteen years of experience in the financial industry. She is a graduate of Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington.
Maia Hernandez joined Northrim Bank in 2015 and has thirteen years of experience in the industry, starting as a teller and advancing to a business banker and eventually becoming the branch manager at the Seventh Avenue Branch and Retail Banking Float Pool Manager.
Katreena Little has been with Northrim for more than ten years where she has been an assistant branch manager before being promoted to Branch Manager.
Liza David has been promoted to Assistant Branch Manager. David started at Northrim in 2009 and has worked in a couple different branches in Anchorage. She studied at the University of Makati Philippines.
Donna Fountain joined Northrim in 2006 and has more than twenty-one years of banking experience. Now Assistant Branch Manager of the Fairbanks Financial Center, she has held positions throughout the bank and received Northrim’s Customer First Service Award in 2016. 
