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STAN GADEK

Position: Chief executive officer and president, Sun Country Airlines

Age, birthplace: 59, Lombard, Ill.

Education: University of St. Thomas, MBA, 1984; University of Illinois, accounting degree, 1976

Family: wife, Kate; three grown children

Current residence: Lakeville

First job: Stock clerk and bagger at a grocery store for $1.10 an hour.

Worst job: Washing pots and pans in the mess hall as a Marine.

Favorite vacation spot: Hawaii

Favorite restaurant: L'Ami Louis in Paris

Magazine subscription: Flying

Fun away from work: Target shooting, a hobby left over from Marine Corps days