E dward "Ed" Stack is an American billionaire who built his family's small sporting goods store into a national retail giant. He is the chairman and former longtime CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods. The company was founded by his father, Dick Stack, as a single bait-and-tackle shop in Binghamton, New York, in 1948. Ed and his siblings bought the business from their father.

As CEO, Ed Stack took the helm and embarked on an aggressive expansion strategy, growing the company from two small stores into the largest sporting goods retailer in the United States, with hundreds of locations. He took the company public in 2002 and has built it into a Fortune 500 company. He is known for his strong leadership and for taking public stances on controversial issues, most notably on gun control, when he decided to stop selling assault-style rifles in his stores after the Parkland school shooting.