Executive Staff
BOARD – EXECUTIVE STAFF
Executive Leadership
Luke Fanning – Chief Executive Officer
Luke Fanning is the chief executive officer for APICDA and its subsidiaries. He is a lifelong Alaskan whose seafood industry experience began in the 1990s as a crewman on a halibut longliner and salmon seiner. He first became acquainted with APICDA in 2007 when he served as APICDA and AJV’s banker while working for Wells Fargo Bank. Prior to joining APICDA in 2017, Luke served as the vice president and regional manager for First National Bank Alaska, where he managed a region including five bank branches and a portfolio of commercial loans and deposits.
Luke has a bachelor of science from the University of Portland, an MBA from the University of Alaska Southeast and is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School. Luke is an active member of his community and has served on the board for the Juneau Rotary Club and the Healing Hand Foundation, which provides financial assistance for beneficiaries of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium who have unmet medical needs. Luke is very passionate about the seafood industry. In his spare time, he captains Triton, a 32-foot commercial fishing vessel, gillnetting for salmon and longlining for halibut.
Grant Mirick is the chief operating
officer and oversees APICDA’s subsidiaries. Grant has been involved in the Alaska fishing and processing industries for more than 30 years with positions and activities in corporate management, production management, quality control, domestic and international seafood sales and commercial fishing. After working his way through college with fishing industry jobs in Unalaska and Kodiak, Grant moved to Kodiak full-time in the early 1980s to work for Ocean Beauty Seafoods. In 1993 he accepted a job managing the Kodiak Salmon Packers facility in Larsen Bay and worked between Seattle and the village of Larsen Bay for the next 13 years. Community outreach and joint projects with the community of Larsen Bay were some of the most memorable and rewarding parts of his job. He went to work for Snopac Products in 2007 as the director of sales and in 2010 was promoted to chief operating officer, which included overseeing operations in Dillingham and the M/V Snopac Innovator. After the sale of Snopac Products in 2013, Grant went to work for Welmar Pacific as their vice president of operations where he led the team for Alaska salmon sales.
Liza Mack, PhD – Director of Community Programs
Dr. Liza Mack serves as APICDA’s Director of Community Programs, where she leads the department’s strategy, management, and community-based program delivery. Liza is from King Cove and is the daughter of Barney Mack of King Cove and the late Lydia (Kenezuroff) Mack of Belkofski.
Liza has over 20 years of experience with Indigenous organizations and communities, including service as Executive Director of the Aleut International Association and, most recently, as the Village Infrastructure Protection Program Manager at the Denali Commission. Her experience spans many areas, with particular strengths in community engagement in regulatory processes, natural resource management, and grants administration.
She earned an A.A. in Liberal Arts from the University of Alaska Sitka, a B.A. and M.S. in Anthropology from Idaho State University, and a Ph.D. in Indigenous Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Angel Drobnica – Director of Fisheries and Government Affairs
