52, Edina

Family: Married with three sons

Named CEO in June 2009; joined board of directors

Career: 2006 to 2009, president and chief operating officer; 2004 to 2006, president-retail-North America; 2002 to 2004, executive vice president, Best Buy U.S. Retail; 1985 to 2002, senior vice president, regional vice president, regional manager, district manager and store manager. He joined Best Buy in 1985 as a store associate.

Boards: Dunn serves on the board of the Best Buy Children's Foundation and is a past board member of Dick's Sporting Goods and the Greater Twin Cities United Way.

Compensation: Dunn took home $2,139,753 as CEO for the fiscal year ended Feb. 28, 2011. He was given a 10 percent increase in his $1 million base salary "in recognition of his maturity in the chief executive role."

From the fiscal years 2004 to 2010, Dunn took home total salary and bonuses of $12.6 million. Including the value of exercised stock options, he took home a combined $19 million during the period.

• According to Best Buy's most-recent proxy statement, Dunn owns 832,602 Best Buy shares, with 771,526 in the form of exercisable options.

PATRICK KENNEDY