Lora Dikun

Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer & Chief People Officer Giant Eagle

Lora Dikun leads and oversees the Human Resources, Legal, Safety and Loss Prevention Departments at Giant Eagle, Inc., one of the nation’s largest multi-format food, fuel, convenience and pharmacy retailers with 32,000 Team Members and approximately $9.5 billion in annual sales.

Giant Eagle is on Forbes magazine’s largest private corporations list. Founded in 1931, Giant Eagle has grown to be the number one supermarket retailer in the region with more than 425 corporate and independently-owned and operated supermarkets and fuel and convenience stores throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, north central West Virginia, western Maryland and Indiana as well as four distribution centers.

Lora has more than 29 years of leadership experience in human resources, finance and management. In addition to Giant Eagle, Lora has served in leadership roles at DQE/Duquesne Light and Deloitte. Lora also has strong expertise in the areas of talent acquisition and development; employee benefits; labor relations; executive compensation; risk management; pension and trust investments; accounting; taxes, and financial planning.

Lora joined Giant Eagle in 2003 as Director, Benefits, and has received several promotions since then: Sr. Director, Human Resources Strategy & Operations; VP, Human Resources Operations; VP, Talent Development & Labor Relations, and Sr. VP, Human Resources, Legal and Safety & Chief People Officer.

Some of Lora’s recent accomplishments, include: The founding of the Giant Eagle Team Member Care Fund, a non-profit corporation that provides financial assistance to fellow Team Members that are facing severe hardship, for which she also serves on the Board of Directors. Lora is a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh, Class XXVIII, and was named one of the Top Women in Grocery 2012 by Progressive Grocer. Lora also earned the 2014 Women of Influence in the Food Industry by The Griffin Report, and the 2014 Pennsylvania’s Leadership Excellence Award by the Pennsylvania Diversity Council. Lora was recognized as one of the 2015 Most Influential Women in Business by the Pittsburgh Business Times and earned the 2016 Leadership Excellence Award from the Ohio Diversity Council. Most recently, Lora was recognized as the 2018 Circle of Hope honoree through PA Women Work, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering women in career transition through job readiness, emotional growth, education, training and employment.

Ms. Dikun is very active in the Greater Pittsburgh community and works with various organizations, including Girls Hope of Pittsburgh, as the founding President for their Young Leadership Board, the FISA Foundation, Blind and Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh, as well as F.A.M.E.—the Fund for Advancement of Minorities through Education. Her focus has been on organizations that support woman, minorities and people with disabilities. Ms. Dikun currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Veteran’s Leadership Program of Western PA.

A native of New Jersey, Lora graduated from Penn State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, and a Master’s degree in Taxation from Robert Morris University. Lora resides in the Pittsburgh area with her husband and two children.