RIGHT MOVES.

LifeMed Alaska

*A veteran of the US Marine Corps is the new CEO of LifeMed Alaska. The air and ground ambulance service selected Grace K. Greene to lead the company. Greene was the president of TOTE Maritime Alaska until last year, when she moved to Oak Brook, Illinois to take a job as senior vice president of Hub Group. Greene attended the US Naval Academy and was commissioned into the Marine Corps, working in logistics and aviation safety.

Natives of Kodiak

*The Alaska Native urban corporation for Kodiak selected a successor to longtime President and CEO Jim Erickson, who is retiring. Natives of Kodiak hired Monica James, most recently the chief operating officer at Aleut Corporation. James is a shareholder of Calista Corporation and Bethel Native Corporation. James was previously executive vice president and COO at Calista and also served as president of Yulista Holding, the Alabama-based aerospace branch of Calista. James also served as vice president of business operations and administration for Alaska Aerospace, the state-backed owner and operator of the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island.

Alaska Communications

*Alaska Communications promoted Mark Ayers to Chief Technology Officer. In that role, Ayers leads information technology. planning and construction strategy, engineering design and execution, and helps set network vision. Ayers joined the Anchorage-based telecom at the start of 2022 after working for twenty years at cross-town rival GCI. Ayers is a UAA graduate and a licensed professional engineer.

Northrim Bank

Northrim Bank recently promoted four officers and managers, rehired another, and added one more financial industry veteran to the team.

*Newest to Northrim is Samantha Schemm, who joined the bank in September as AVP, Deposit Applications Manager. Schemm brings more than fifteen years of experience in retail banking, back-office operations, and IT.

*Jason Gentry returns to Northrim as VP, Commercial Loan Officer. Gentry grew up in Utqiagvik and attended UAF. He has more than ten years of experience in the financial industry in Alaska and Washington.

*Ben Schulman s promoted to VP, Commercial Loan Officer. Schulman started at Northrim Bank in 2010 and has twenty-two years of banking experience. He holds a bachelor's degree in Business Management from Corban University in Oregon.

*Johnico Bashford-Blumer received a promotion to AVP, Branch Manager at the Lake Otis Community Branch. Bashford-Blumer has been with...