PORT GRAHAM CORPORATION - Key Persons
Mrs. Selanoff currently holds the position of Vice President of the Port Graham Corporation. She also acts as Chair of Port Graham Government Solutions and Vice Chair of Paluwik Heritage Foundation. Mrs. Selanoff has served on the board of Directors for the past 11 years. Mrs. Selanoff was born and raised in the Native Village of Port Graham, and for the past 22 years she has resided in Valdez where she works for TCC, LLC an Oil Spill Response and Maintenance Organization. She continues to practice traditional subsistence gathering and processing and remains active in the Chugach region as a subsistence teacher for the youth and within her church.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operations Officer
- COO
Elmer Moonin is the Chief Operations Officer for the Port Graham Corporation. Elmer has nine years of Management experience with seven of those years in a Project Management role. He has managed a staff of over twenty employees, annual budgets of over $1.2 million, and more than $6 million in assets. He received a Master's of Business Administration from the University of Alaska-Anchorage in May 2011 and holds a Bachelors of Business Administration from the same university.
Elmer began working with the Port Graham Corporation and their respective subsidiaries in October 2013. Elmer is a Port Graham Corporation shareholder descendant, a proud Sugpiaq, father of 2 daughters, Lilani 11 years old and Julianna 7 years old.
Ms. Helen Loescher was born in Port Graham and currently is a Director on the Port Graham Corporation Board, as well as on Board of Paluwik Heritage Foundation. She has been on the Board for over 10 years. She attended Fort Lewis College and the University of Alaska Anchorage. Her parents are Thomas Young SR and Marie Malchoff, she has eight sisters and four brothers. Ms. Loescher is the proud mother of two children and grandmother of three growing boys. While she is now retired, she has volunteered throughout Alaska for many nonprofits.
James LaBelle JR currently serves as the Treasurer for the Port Graham Corporation. He has served on the Board of Directors since 1998. In addition to PGC, he has served on various boards in his community. Mr. LaBelle has worked in child welfare, social services, and with nonprofits in Alaska. He is married to Rhonda LaBelle, children are Cody, Anthony, and Suzanne. He raised his family mainly in Anchorage. His vision is to not only be financially successful but to provide education, jobs, and other programs to allow improvement of our shareholder's lives.
Job Titles:
- Director of Business Development
Jim became Director of Business Development in August of 2017. Prior to this, he served in the US Army for 27 years, retiring as a Colonel. His Army career gave him extensive experience in the areas of Homeland Defense and Homeland Security. He possesses extensive knowledge of working in joint and interagency operations, particularly with local, state and federal law enforcement. After 9/11, Jim played a key leadership role in planning, initiating and sustaining a high-visibility homeland defense mission, responsible for protecting our nation's capital and POTUS. He also led a joint task force along the US southwest border and was instrumental in developing the model for the first-ever federal Joint Task Force to secure the nation's southwest border - Operation Jump Start. Upon his retirement from the Army, he served as a program manager supporting Customs and Border Protection and the US Air Force Research Lab at Kirtland AFB, NM. Jim has a Bachelor's degree in marketing from Eastern New Mexico University, an MBA from the College of Santa Fe as well as a Master's in Strategic Studies from the Air War College.
As CEO of Port Graham Corporation, Mr. Shepherd provides Executive Management and oversight for all Corporation activities.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Shepherd was President of New Horizons Telecom, Inc., a 36-year IEEE-award-winning, ISO-Certified, General & Electrical Contracting & Engineering firm based in Alaska that specializes in design and implementation of infrastructure, systems and networks for telecommunications providers and government agencies. Mr. Shepherd has been directly involved with the acquisition and successful implementation of more than $500M in government and commercial contracts.
His background includes the significant effort to develop numerous telecom facilities from cable landing stations for major submarine fiber cable systems, to large-scale satellite networks, large-scale wireless and Land-Mobile Radio (LMR) systems, microwave systems, data facilities, and other telecom support infrastructure.
In addition to developing telecom systems, Mr. Shepherd has also developed surveillance systems, including Radio Frequency (RF) and software operations. Turn-key systems include all infrastructure, support components and significant experience with power and SCADA systems. Design/Build projects also include data centers, office buildings, schools, and a wide range of delivered modular structures.
Mrs. Laura McMullen currently holds the position of secretary of Port Graham Corporation, as well as on the Paluwik Heritage Foundation board. She has served our shareholders for four years. Mrs. McMullen was born in Homer, and raised in Port Graham. She has raised five children in Port Graham and Sterling Alaska. She takes great pride and pleasure in raising a successful family that is rooted in a subsistence lifestyle while enabling western education.
Mr. Bargeron brings over 30 years of executive leadership experience to Port Graham. After serving twenty-years as a U. S. Army Officer, Mr. Bargeron retired to pursue a career with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). During his tenure with DEA Mr. Bargeron served in a number of executive-level positions.
Mr. Bargeron holds a BS in Business and a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) and has attended several executive-level courses within the military and Federal Government.
Walter currently holds the office of Chairman of the Board for Port Graham Corporation. He has been the chair for over 15 years and on the board for 20 years. In addition to the PGC Board he has served on the Port Graham Village Council for many years. Walter has worked closely with the staff to develop and grow the Port Graham Corporation family of companies.