Aaron Schutt.

• Position: OFF THE CUFF

One way or another, Aaron Schutt would've been flying across Alaska, from village to village. He didn't follow one childhood dream to become a bush pilot, but he still gets around (or did, before COVID-19) as President and CEO of Doyon, Limited. He considers the best part of his job to be visiting the Interior hometowns of the regional Native corporation's 20,000 shareholders and understanding their current needs and their histories.

"Wherever they live now," he says, "they're from somewhere."

Schutt, a Koyukon Athabascan enrolled in the Native Village of Tanana, grew up in Tok, graduating high school with just eighteen classmates. He earned a master's degree in civil engineering and then pivoted to Stanford Law School, becoming a lawyer like his twin brother Ethan (himself an executive vice president at Bristol Bay Native Corporation and a Permanent Fund trustee).

AB: What is your favorite way to exercise? Schutt: Gotta be late-night, beer league hockey.

AB: What's the most daring thing you've ever done? Schutt: [he laughs] I've bungee jumped, I've skydived, I've done all the... people think they're crazy, but it doesn't seem to bother me too much.

AB: What's your favorite local restaurant? Schutt: Taco King, (he laughs] I mean, there's the fancy restaurants, and we've got some really good ones... but my local lunch spot is the Taco King on Huffman. I'm happy every day I eat there.

AB: Is there anything you're superstitious about?

Schutt: All kinds of things! [he laughs] Half the time when I'm watching my team, whatever sport it is on TV, I feel like they do worse than when I'm not. So I really struggle with that one. Should I watch or should I not?

AB: Have you ever had a supernatural experience? Schutt: People see sasquatch and all this stuff out in the woods, and I've spent an awful lot of time in the woods... I've never seen anything! So I'm waiting for it to happen.

AB: Dead or alive, who would you like to see perform live in concert?

Schutt: We went to the Eagles a couple years ago (in Las

Vegas]... wouldn't mind going back.

AB: What's your greatest extravagance?

Schutt: Once in a while, I pay way too much to watch an NHL game...