Alaska's state-owned gas pipeline company made a set of leadership changes at a meeting Friday morning, appointing a temporary replacement for former president Dan Fauske and naming a permanent board chair.
At the meeting, the board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. made its acting chair, Dave Cruz, the permanent chair, with Hugh Short named vice chair.
The board also unanimously approved the appointment of Fritz Krusen -- who was previously a vice president at the corporation -- as interim president while it searches for a permanent replacement for Dan Fauske, who resigned last month.
Fauske's resignation came at the same time Gov. Bill Walker fired the corporation's board chair, John Burns, and replaced him with Luke Hopkins, the former Fairbanks borough mayor. Walker said at the time that he'd asked his appointees on the corporation's board to make a leadership change.
A second vice president, Joe Dubler, will also leave the corporation in January. Short, one of the board members, said in an interview late Friday that Dubler offered his resignation.
The board also announced Friday that a search firm, B+R Partners, had been hired to find Fauske's permanent replacement. Short said the firm's fee would be 30 percent of the new executive's first-year compensation, capped at $150,000.