Edward W. Stack

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Edward W. Stack
Born1954or1955(age 68–69) [1]
NationalityAmerican
Education St. John Fisher College (BAS, 1977)
Years active1984–present
Title Executive Chairman and CMO of Dick's Sporting Goods
Board member of
SpouseDonna A. Stack

Edward W. Stack (born 1954/1955) is an American billionaire businessman. In 1984, Stack took over as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Dick's Sporting Goods, a sports equipment retailing company founded in 1948 by his father, Dick Stack. In February 2021, he was succeeded as CEO by Lauren Hobart.

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Early life and education

Edward W. Stack is the son of Richard "Dick" Stack, [1] who founded sports equipment retailer Dick's Sporting Goods in 1948. [2] [3] [4] He grew up in the East Side neighborhood of Binghamton, New York, attended public schools, and played baseball and football at Binghamton North High School. [1] [5] [6] Stack received a Bachelor of Arts and Science degree in accounting from St. John Fisher College in 1977. [1] [2] [4] He planned to become a lawyer, but opted to help run the family business after his father's health declined. [7]

Career

Stack and his siblings purchased Dick's from their father in the early 1980s, when the company had two locations in Upstate New York. [4] [5] [8] He became chairman and chief executive officer following his father's retirement in 1984. [2] [3] Stack established a board of directors, opened additional stores, and relocated the company's headquarters to Pittsburgh in 1994. [4] [9] He led the company during its initial public offering in 2002. [2] [3]

Stack owned approximately 25 percent of the company's common stock, and controlled nearly two-thirds of its voting shares, as of 2010. [1] After selling 5.8 percent of his holdings in 2013, he owned around 20 percent of the company, primarily via Class B shares. [10] [11] Following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018, Stack announced that Dick's and its subsidiaries would stop selling military pattern semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, and would not sell firearms to people under the age of 21. [3] In addition, Stack reported to destroy $5 million worth of assault-style-type rifles then in Dick's inventory. [12] [13] [14] He has advocated for stronger gun control and worked to enact change by hiring lobbyists and meeting with politicians. [15] [16] [17]

Stack is estimated to have a net worth of US$1.2 billion as of February 2018. [3]

In February 2021, he was succeeded as CEO by Lauren Hobart. [18]

Board service

Stack has served on the boards of the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, KeyCorp, [19] the National Retail Federation, [20] and Seton Hall University, [7] as well as the advisory board of Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania's Jay H. Baker Retailing Initiative. [21]

Recognition

In 1997, Stack ranked fourth in the "consumer-retailing/hardlines" category of magazine Institutional Investor 's survey of the best chief American executives, and was named "Sports Executive Visionary of the Year" by magazine SportStyle. [22] [23] He was named "Entrepreneur of the Year in Southwestern Pennsylvania" by Ernst & Young in 1999. [23] In 2005, Stack received a History Makers Award in the "business and industry" category from the Heinz History Center. [24] He was inducted into the National Sporting Goods Association's Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Fame in 2006. [23] [25] Stack received a Humanity and Service Award from the Bus Stops Here Foundation in 2014, and a Major John H. Russell Leadership Award from Marine Corps University's foundation in 2015. [21] He was given an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters from his alma mater, after delivering a commencement speech in 2016. [26] [27]

Personal life

Stack is married to Donna A. Stack. [28] [2] In February 2015, the couple acquired an 8,946-square-foot home in North Palm Beach, Florida, for $12 million. [28] He is happily married, and lives in Sewickley, Pennsylvania with Donna. [2]

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