Ex-Eklutna CEO Becomes ANVCA Executive Director
Alaska Native Village Corporation Association
The Alaska Native Village Corporation Association (ANVCA) has a new day-to-day leader. The board of directors hired Curtis J. McQueen as Executive Director.
McQueen is the former CEO of Eklutna, Incorporated, the village corporation that is also the largest private landowner in the Municipality of Anchorage and the Matanuska Susitna Borough. During his service from 2005 to 2019, McQueen managed commercial and industrial real estate holdings and housing developments and led the permitting of large-scale natural resources extraction operations and guided multiple construction companies.
McQueen is a current board member of the Rasmuson Foundation, Alaska’s largest philanthropic foundation. He also chairs the advisory board for the Distinguished Rasmuson Chair of Economics at UAA.
The association acts as a network to share resources for success among more than 200 corporations established by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to benefit villages.
McQueen says, “As a former CEO, a longtime supporter, and a former board member of ANVCA, I’m honored to join this incredible organization and support its mission to promote the success of our village corporations and the protection of our Native lands.”
McQueen is Tlingit from the Eagle-Killer Whale Clan, a citizen of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, a shareholder of Sealaska Corporation, and an adopted member of the Native Village of Eklutna.
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