Dave Peacock (businessman)


Dave Peacock is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Schnuck Markets Inc., based in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, Missouri. He is the former President of the Anheuser-Busch InBev subsidiary, Anheuser-Busch.

Career

He earned his undergraduate degree in Journalism from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas in 1990 and an MBA from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.
He succeeded August Busch IV as president of Anheuser-Busch in 2008 after the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch was completed by InBev on November 18, 2008. He stepped down as Anheuser-Busch president in 2012.
He currently is owner and chairman of Vitaligent, LLC, the largest Jamba Juice franchisee with stores in California and Missouri. He is on the Board of Directors for Stifel Corp and Schnucks Markets. He has also been Chairman of the St. Louis Sports Commission since 2012.
In the fall of 2014, he was tasked by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to lead an effort to keep the St. Louis Rams, a team in the National Football League, that was based in St. Louis at the time in anticipation of owner Stan Kroenke's plans to build a football stadium in Inglewood, California. On January 9, 2015, he produced a plan to build an open-air stadium on the north side of downtown St. Louis he also led the stadium effort until the Rams moved back to Los Angeles in 2016. Peacock also helped organize a group to secure an MLS expansion franchise in 2016–2017.
In May 2017, Peacock was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of Schnuck Markets, a grocery chain operating in five states headquartered in St Louis. The same year, he also joined the board of directors for Stifel Corp, a leading brokerage and investment bank.
Peacock has become involved in the St. Louis startup scene. He is an investor in RoverTown and serves on its Board of Directors. He is also an investor in St. Louis startup LockerDome and sits on their Advisory Board.