Aaron M. Schutt

As President and CEO of Doyon, Limited, Aaron M. Schutt is responsible for working with the Board of Directors to set the overall direction of the Doyon Family of Companies and provide leadership to its senior management team. Schutt has worked at Doyon since 2006. Prior to being named President and CEO, Schutt served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from 2008 to 2011.

Schutt clerked for Alaska Supreme Court Justice Alexander Bryner after graduating from Stanford Law School. He holds a master’s of science in civil engineering from Stanford University and graduated with honors and as an S. Town Stephenson scholar from Washington State University with a bachelor’s of science in civil engineering. Before joining Doyon in 2006, Schutt was an attorney at the Anchorage offices of national law firms Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller & Munson, LLP, and Heller Ehrman, LLP, where he represented tribal and ANCSA corporation clients in transactional and business matters.

He serves on the Board of Directors for Northrim BanCorp, Inc., Akeela, Inc., and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Board of Advisors. He also coaches youth hockey. In 2004, Schutt was named as a recipient of the Alaska Journal of Commerce’s “Top 40 Under 40” award.

Schutt is Koyukon Athabascan and is an enrolled member of the Native Village of Tanana. He was born in Anchorage and raised in Tok.