For Immediate Release
Contact: Cassandra Stalzer, 907-334-0520

Anchorage, AK – Rasmuson Foundation has elected two new members to its Board of Directors. John A. “Jay” Gibbons III and Laura Emerson were elected to three-year terms at the Board meeting July 1, 2015. Both are grandchildren of Elmer Rasmuson.

Gibbons, of Greenwich, Connecticut, is founder and managing partner of Swanson River Capital Management LLC, an investment management firm based in Greenwich. Previously, he spent 11 years at Trust Company of the West, the last three years as managing director and co-portfolio manager of the Value Added and Value Opportunities strategies. Earlier in his career, Gibbons was an equity analyst at Odin Partners LP, Merrill Lynch and Co. and Bear, Stearns and Co. He began his career at BayBanks, Inc. He received an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and an A.B.in Biochemistry from Bowdoin College.

Emerson was born and raised in Anchorage, where she lives with her husband and two young children. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature in 1996 from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Emerson has worked in a range of jobs, including janitorial, retail, banking and as a video editor. She currently teaches yoga. Emerson serves on the Anchorage Museum Board of Directors and previously served on the board of Cyrano’s Eccentric Theatre Company. She has also performed on stage.

About the Foundation
The Rasmuson Foundation was created in May 1955 by Jenny Rasmuson to honor her late husband “E.A.” Rasmuson. The Foundation is a catalyst to promote a better life for all Alaskans.