David S. Shapira is an American businessman. He is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Giant Eagle, Inc. He joined the company in 1971 and has been President and CEO since 1980. Until 2009, he was the chairman of

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

's Board of Trustees. In 1982, he co-founded

Phar-Mor Phar-Mor (stylized as ) was a United States chain of discount drug stores, based in Youngstown, Ohio, and founded by Michael I. Monus, Michael "Mickey" Monus and David Shapira in 1982. Some of its stores used the names Pharmhouse and Rx Place ( ...

with Michael I. Monus. In 2012, his daughter Laura Shapira Karet took over as CEO for private company Giant Eagle, Inc., which was removed from the company by its Board of Directors in late March 2023. He was also a member of the board of Directors of Equitable Resources, Inc. (NYSE: EQT), a Pennsylvania natural gas and oil company with emphasis on the Appalachian area. He received his undergraduate degree from

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...

in 1963 and an MA in Economics from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

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