Meet the CPGH, Inc. Board of Directors
The current CPGH Inc. Board of Directors includes the following members:   
 
 
Thomas R. Boedeker, President
Thomas R. Boedeker recently retired from the City of Soldotna where he served as City Manager since April 1996. He previously served 13 years as the Borough Attorney for the Kenai Peninsula Borough, where he was chief legal advisor to the Borough Administration, Assembly, School Board and School District. Prior to this he was practiced law in Anchorage where he also was an instructor for several courses at UAA and Anchorage Community College.  Mr. Boedeker holds a law degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and a bachelors degree in Political Science from Texas A & M University. He is a member of the Alaska Municipal Managers Association, The International City and County Manager Assoc., Alaska Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Alaska Municipal Attorneys Association, the Alaska Municipal League Legislative Committee (4 years as chairman), and the Soldotna Rotary Club (past treasurer) and was formerly a member of the Kenai Rotary Club (past president). He also serves on the Board of the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District (past president). He is an active member and president of Hospice of the Central Peninsula. He has given presentations on numerous legal and municipal issues at conferences and seminars in Alaska.
 
 
Loren Karp Weimer, Vice President
Loren Karp Weimer is a researcher and specialist in the Division of Gastroenterology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She has been involved in research since 1982 and continues to travel regularly to Los Angeles from the Kenai Peninsula for her work.  She has a Masters Degree from the University of California and her Bachelors is from Illinois State University. She has spent five years in internal medicine, health services research and community health program development.  She has also spent 20 years in academic gastroenterology/immunology and hospital based, basic, translational and clinical research.  She is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association, the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and the American Medical Writers Association. She has published at least 20 articles in her specialty and served as editor/writer for three books and has just begun a fourth.   She has also served as a senior Public Analyst for the UCLA School of Medicine and a Marketing Assistant for U.S. Corporate Health Management.
 
 
Alyson Stogsdill, Secretary/Treasurer
Alyson Stogsdill has been employed by the Legislative Affairs Agency since 1988.  Prior to that she worked in the travel industry in both Juneau and Anchorage from 1971-1984, working for Alaska Airlines and Totem Travel/Alaska Travel.  Alyson has been an American Cancer Society Reach to Recovery volunteer since 1991 and acts as a volunteer trainer and Board member for the Relay For Life.  Her other volunteer activities include helping organize the PTA at Redoubt Elementary, serving as a class room volunteer and education teacher for "Our Lady of Perpetual Help" at the Catholic Church, and acting as Lady's group president, Eucharistic Minister.  Alyson also has an Associates Degree from Highline Community College in Midway, Washington.  Her hobbies include gardening, snow-shoeing and arts and crafts.
 
 

Sal Mattero
Sal Mattero is a retired Human Resources Professional with over 25 years of experience. He grew up in New York City and attended New York University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Personnel and Industrial Relations. Experiences gained from a combined 34 years at both Union Oil Company of California and Agrium, U.S.A., resulted in his holding both Supervisory and Management positions at the Field, Regional, and Corporate levels. Since retirement in 2002, he has served on multiple Boards and Committees, earning him the Kenai Chamber of Commerce's "Community Service Award" in 2008.  He currently holds board positions as President of the Friends of the Kenai Community Library, and Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church. He also serves as Board Secretary to the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank, the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District and the City of Kenai Foundation.  Sal and his wife, Kathleen, have lived in Kenai since 1997. They have two grown sons living in Forest Grove, Oregon.

Judith Salo
Judith Salo has been a resident of the Kenai Peninsula since 1969.  She grew up in Minnesota and began her professional career working for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District as an Administrative Assistant.  After completing her Bachelor's degree she began a twenty-year teaching career in elementary education.  She retired as a teacher and was appointed in 1990 to fill House District 9 seat.  In 1992, she was elected to the Alaska State Senate, representing Kenai, Nikiski, Girdwood, and South Anchorage.  Her standing committee appointments were Labor and Commerce, Health, Education and Social Services.  Ms. Salo worked from 1998-99 as the Development Director for the North Pacific Volcano Learning Center and in 2000 she accepted a position as the Executive Director of the Alaska State Community Service Commission.  She has also served for six years on the Alaska Children's Trust, promoting the prevention of child abuse and neglect by granting local organizations funding for prevention projects.  Other volunteer work includes eight years on the BP Community Advisory Committee whose function was to advise BP management on charitable contributions to non-profit organizations.  
 
 
John Bramante
John Bramante, MD is a board-certified, Internal Medicine Specialist.  He joined the active medical staff in 1993 and is in private practice with Peninsula Internal Medicine located at 247 N. Fireweed Street in Soldotna.  Dr. Bramante received his Doctor of Medicine from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1989.  He completed his Internal Medicine Residency from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1992 and was Chief Resident in 1993.  Dr. Bramante competed in the Iditarod in 2000 and 2002.  He and wife Katie have made their home in Kasilof where they are raising three daughters; enjoy coaching competitive youth soccer, and raise dogs, horses, pigs and bees.

 
Trena Richardson
Trena Richardson retired from the Kenai Peninsula School District after 29 years, where she taught at Tustumena, Soldotna and K-Beach Elementary Schools and also held the position of Principal at Nikiski and K-Beach before retiring in June of 2002.  Ms. Richardson is a current member on the Soldotna Planning & Zoning Committee and is a past President of the local Administrators Association, and has served on the NEA State Board of Directors and the Alaska State Community Services Administration.  Trena earned her B.A. in Education from the College of Idaho, and her M.A. in Education from the University of Northern Colorado. When not volunteering, Ms. Richardson enjoys reading, playing golf and traveling to locations such as Australia and South Africa.
 

Richard Ross
Richard Ross is retired from law enforcement after serving as the Chief of Police in Kenai from 1975-1993.  He then served as the Kenai City Manager from 1996-2001.  After graduating from Kenai Central High School, he earned his B.A. from Seattle Pacific College, and also earned an Associates Degree from the University of Alaska.   He did post graduate work at the University of Alaska, where he took courses in Law and studied Public Management at the University of Virginia.  He attended the U.S. Army Military Police Academy in 1969, the Alaska Municipal Police Academy in 1972, Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, and the FBI National Academy in 1978. Ross has served in a number of civic and professional organizations including the following:  Past President of the Alaska Association of Chiefs of Police, International Association of Chiefs of Police, FBI National Academy Association, Kenai Rotary Club, Kenai Peninsula 911 Board, Alaska Police Standards (Governor's appointment Chairman, 1991-93) Kenai Chamber of Commerce member and CPGH Strategic Planning member.  
 
 
Russell R. Peterson
Russell R. Peterson, P.E., is a registered professional chemical engineer in the states of Alaska and California.  He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.  Russell is currently an adjunct instructor of Process Technology at Kenai Peninsula College.  Russell has 28 years of professional engineering experience in the chemical and oil & gas industries.  He has been a resident of the Kenai Peninsula since 1987 working in various engineering and management positions for both Unocal and Agrium.  Russell and his wife Irma have one child, Alex, who is currently attending college in California.  Russell is an active member of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society local MS support group. 
 
 
John Torgerson
John Torgerson is currently the Executive Director of the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District.  He retired from the State of Alaska in 2007 as Deputy Commissioner of Aviation, Department of Transportation. Prior to retirement, he also served as acting Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Transportation, and Business Manager and Acting Director of the Division of Agriculture.  He represented the Kasilof area for two terms on the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, and served the communities from Homer to Seward as a State Senator for 8 years.  During his Senate terms, he served as Co-Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and Chairman of the Senate Resources Committee, International Committee on Natural Gas Pipelines, and the Joint Committee on Natural Gas Pipelines.  He also served as Vice Chair of the Labor and Commerce Committee. In addition, he was a member of the Legislative Ethics; Legislative Budget and Audit; Legislative Council; and the Judiciary Committees. He has served as President of the Alaska Municipal League, Soldotna Chamber of Commerce, Peninsula Winter Games, and is a life-time member of the Pioneers of Alaska, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He has been a resident of the Kenai Peninsula since 1960.
 
  
John Hoyt
John Hoyt is the Senior Vice President with Wells Fargo Bank Alaska, and previously served on the operating boards of both Sitka General Hospital and South Peninsula Hospital. He also served as chair of the South Peninsula Hospital board finance committee. Mr. Hoyt currently administers all of the Wells Fargo branches on the Kenai Peninsula. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Western Washington University and a graduate degree from the Pacific Coast Banking School of Management at the University of Washington. He has 18 years of experience in the banking industry throughout Southeast and South Central Alaska. Mr. Hoyt is a lifelong Alaskan who was born in Haines and grew up in Anchorage, where he attended Bartlett High School. He and his wife, Mary, have two children in elementary school.