Ed Stack is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DICK’s Sporting Goods since 1984. He leads the largest, full-service sporting goods retailer in the country. Ed Stack has led this Fortune 500 Corporation through a remarkable period of growth from just two stores in upstate New York to 713 DICK’s Sporting Good’s stores, 98 Golf Galaxy stores and 35 Field & Stream stores.

Mr. Stack’s recognitions and awards include: 1997, Sports Executive Visionary of the Year, Sports Style Magazine; Entrepreneur of the Year in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Ernst & Young; 2005, History Makers Award for Business & Industry, Heinz History Center; 2006, National Sporting Goods Association Hall of Fame induction; 2014, Humanity and Service Award, The Bus Stops Here Foundation; 2015, The Major John H. Russell Leadership Award, Marine Corp University Foundation.

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