ANCHORAGE, AK –  April 25, 2000 – Longtime Alaska business and native leader Perry Eaton has joined Alyeska Pipeline Service Company as Corporate Relations Manager.  Eaton will work with  Alyeska’s Fairbanks Business Unit helping the company continue developing relationships with Native corporations situated along the pipeline corridor.

“Eaton’s extensive knowledge of the people in the Ahtna and Chugach regions will be invaluable to the asset managers who are responsible for maintaining positive relationships with the communities affected by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System,” said Bill Howitt, Senior V.P. in charge of the Fairbanks Business Unit.

Eaton’s primary function will be to assist in defining clear and concise expectations of all parties and will serve as a cross cultural bridge between Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and Native non-profit corporations and Alyeska.

Eaton has most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alaska Native Heritage Center, which opened in Anchorage in 1999. Prior to accepting that position, he spent over 25 years in finance, banking and development-related positions, including seventeen years as chief executive officer of a community development corporation.

Eaton has worked on a wide range of issues affecting indigenous peoples and was appointed by President Bush to chair the Federal side of the Joint Federal-State Commission on Policy and Programs affecting Alaska Native people.

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