KAVILCO - Key Persons


Carol Ducharme - Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Secretary
  • Member of the Board
Ms. Ducharme has been with the corporation since 2012.

Eleanor L. Hadden - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Board
  • Treasurer
Ms. Hadden was selected by Kavilco's Board of Directors to fill the vacancy left by Louis A. Thompson's passing.

Felix Young

Felix Young, Agnes' father, was one of six children born on August 7, 1885 to Carrie (Kuhlwáats´) Baronovich and Paul Young in Karta Bay. Carrie came from a family of nine to 14 children born to Charles Vincent Baronovich and Mary Skáwaal. Mary was the adopted daughter of Chief Skáwaal who had no children of his own. Her Haida name was Úljuuhl. Louie did not know his great-grandfather's Haida name, only that he was born in Old Kasaan and took the name "Young" from S. Hall Young who came to Alaska as a Presbyterian missionary and explorer, and organized the first Protestant church in Alaska. Felix married Lydia Wallace on September 21, 1913 in Craig, Alaska. Agnes Rose was born July 9, 1914, the oldest of four daughters (Ruth, Dorothy and Edith). Sadly, Lydia died in childbirth with Edith.

Frederick O. Olsen, Jr - VP

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Board
  • Vice - President
  • Frederick O. Olsen
Mr. Olsen has been on Kavilco's Board of Directors since 2012.

Janelle S. Hyatt

Job Titles:
  • Director

Jeane Breinic

Job Titles:
  • Secretary

Jeane Breinig

Job Titles:
  • President of the Board
Jeane has been a Kavilco Board member since 1993 and has been active in the Kasaan Haida Heritage Foundation since its inception.

Kenneth Gordon

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Board
Mr. Gordon has been on Kavilco's Board of Directors since 1994.

Laird A. Jones - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • Secretary of the Board
Mr. Jones has been on Kavilco's Board of Directors since 1994 and began serving as Secretary in 2012.

Louis A. Thompson - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • President
Felix Young, Agnes' father, was one of six children born on August 7, 1885 to Carrie (Kuhlwáats´) Baronovich and Paul Young in Karta Bay. Carrie came from a family of nine to 14 children born to Charles Vincent Baronovich and Mary Skáwaal. Mary was the adopted daughter of Chief Skáwaal who had no children of his own. Her Haida name was Úljuuhl. Louie did not know his great-grandfather's Haida name, only that he was born in Old Kasaan and took the name "Young" from S. Hall Young who came to Alaska as a Presbyterian missionary and explorer, and organized the first Protestant church in Alaska. Felix married Lydia Wallace on September 21, 1913 in Craig, Alaska. Agnes Rose was born July 9, 1914, the oldest of four daughters (Ruth, Dorothy and Edith). Sadly, Lydia died in childbirth with Edith.

Marie Miller

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of the Board
Ms. Miller has been on Kavilco's Board of Directors since 2004 and began serving as Vice President in 2014. She is the first woman elected as a Vice President of Kavilco.

Melanie Young

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Board
Ms. Young has been on Kavilco's Board of Directors since 1997.

Ramona Hamar

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Board
Ms. Hamar has been on Kavilco's Board of Directors since 1973.

Robert Sanders

Job Titles:
  • General Manager

Scott Burns - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Board
Mr. Burns has been an employee of the corporation since 1982.