Dave Peacock has served as Advantage Solutions’ chief operating officer since January 2023. His 30-plus-year career in the consumer packaged goods and retail industry includes four years as president and chief operating officer of Schnuck Markets, Inc., and two decades at Anheuser-Busch, where he served over three years as the company’s president.
Prior to joining Advantage, Peacock was chief operating officer and on the Board of Directors of Continental Grain Company, a global investor, owner and operator of companies across the food and agribusiness spectrum based in New York. Previously, he was a member of the Board of Advisors for, and was the founder and chairman of, Vitaligent, LLC, a multi-unit restaurant franchise operating in California, Oregon and Washington. Peacock led the St. Louis Task Force to keep the Rams in St. Louis, working closely with the NFL and NFL owners’ committees from 2014 to 2016. He was chairman of the St. Louis Sports Commission from 2011 to 2017, an organization devoted to attracting amateur sporting events to the St. Louis region.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Stifel Financial Corp. and of Wayne-Sanderson Farms, a company formed by the combination of Wayne Farms and Sanderson Farms in 2022. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis and the Board of Directors of NextUp, an organization supporting the advancement of women in business. Peacock attended the University of Kansas where he earned a B.S. in Journalism and Washington University where he earned his MBA.