Bristol Bay Native Corporation, pne of Alaska's largest companies, is remaking part of its top leadership

Bristol Bay Native Corporation — one of Alaska's largest companies, with roughly $2 billion in annual revenue and more than 10,000 Native shareholders — is reshaping the leadership at the top of its business, moving new people into both its chief operating and chief financial roles.

The changes put Ryan York and Logan Birch, two executives with deep finance backgrounds, into the corporation's most senior operating and money jobs. York, BBNC's former chief financial officer, will become executive vice president and chief operating officer, succeeding Scott Torrison, who is retiring in 2027 after 18 years with the corporation. The two have already begun working together and will keep doing so until Torrison departs, an unusually long runway that signals a deliberate handoff rather than an abrupt one.

Birch, meanwhile, has already stepped into the finance chief's seat. He became senior vice president and chief financial officer in early August, coming from the presidency of Alaska Growth Capital, a BBNC majority-owned company. Before that he held finance roles at Arctic Slope Regional Corporation — another of the state's major Native corporations — and spent a decade in commercial banking at Wells Fargo. He is taking over financial responsibilities from York over the coming months as York shifts to the operating side.

The corporation framed the moves as planned succession rather than a response to any problem. "These transitions reflect BBNC's ongoing emphasis on thoughtful succession planning and organizational resilience," said Jason Metrokin, BBNC's president and CEO, who credited Torrison with helping shape the corporation's success over nearly two decades.

The stakes are considerable simply because of BBNC's size. Incorporated in 1972 under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the corporation represents Yup'ik, Aleut and Dena'ina shareholders of the Bristol Bay region and has grown into a diversified holding company spanning government services, oilfield services, construction and petroleum — a business whose returns fund dividends, scholarships and programs across the region. Its announcement of the changes, made Monday, carried no outside comment.