New Board Director Terri Walker

Terri Walker

HaiCo extends a warm welcome to Terri Walker as a new board director at HaiCo. The appointment to a two-year term, was made by the Council of the Haida Nation Nominators Committee.

Terri is from the Tsiits Git’Anee eagle clan from Massett Inlet and lives in HlGaagilda Skidegate. She currently is the Chief Executive Officer of Haida Gwaii Accounting & Income Tax Ltd. She has over 25 years of experience in accounting, finance and human resources. Terri had her Certified General Accountants Designation and Aboriginal Financial Officer Association Designation, but in 2008, decided to move to retirement status and as a result resigned from both designations.

Prior to opening Haida Gwaii Accounting & Income Tax, Terri worked primarily with First Nations organizations with a large focus in the area of Post Secondary Education. She was the Bursar and Registrar of the Institute of Indigenous College, where she oversaw the student records system, student enrolment, finances and accounting as well as human resources. She went on a secondment to the Nunavut Artic College head office located in Iqaluit Nunavut as the Assistant Bursar. During her year and a half in the North, she worked as part of a team that was tasked to implement two government of Nunavut initiatives. The First Initiative was to migrate the student registration/records system and the accounting software to Territorial Government platforms. The second initiative was to deploy the College Head Office to the community of Arviat.

Terri is a member of the Village of Queen Charlotte business licencing select committee, Treasurer for the Navy League of Canada – Haida Gwaii branch and is the General Manager for the GwaiiTel Society. She looks forward to working on the HaiCo Board and is excited to work with the business entities to achieve their goals for the Company and Haida Nation.