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Shareholders of Southeast's regional Alaska Native corporation re-elected four directors at their annual meeting in San Francisco.

Sidney Edenshaw, Byron Mallott, Edward Thomas and Rosita Worl were re-elected to three-year terms on Sealaska Corp.'s board of directors.

The board of directors re-elected Albert Kookesh as chairman and Worl as vice chairwoman at a meeting immediately after the annual meeting.

The company said at least 105 shareholders and guests came to the meeting, and 144 households watched it streaming on the Internet.

Sealaska has 20,000 shareholders of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian descent.

Twenty percent live in Southeast Alaska, 12 percent live in the rest of Alaska, and 46 percent live in the Lower 48, largely in Washington, Oregon and California.

Sealaska companies are involved in timber, plastic injection molding and manufacturing, and environmental remediation.

The board also re-elected management: Chris McNeil, Jr., president and CEO; Sam Landol, chief operating officer; Rick Harris, executive vice president; Richard Rinehart, vice president and chief financial officer; Anthony Mallott, corporate treasurer and chief investment officer and treasurer; Jaleen Araujo-Kookesh, vice president and general counsel; and Nicole Hallingstad, vice president corporate secretary and human resources.