Robert B. Shapiro

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Robert Bernard Shapiro (August 4, 1938 – May 2, 2025) was an American businessman and attorney who worked extensively with the biochemical corporations G. D. Searle & Company and Monsanto. Robert Bernard Shapiro was born in Manhattan, New York, on August 4, 1938, the son of businessman Moses Shapiro. He was educated at the Horace Mann School and earned a BA from Harvard University in 1959 and a JD from Columbia Law School in 1962. Shapiro worked in private practice in New York, and also was a lawyer for the United States Department of Transportation in the 1960s. He then served as Vice-President and legal counsel at General Instrument from 1972 to 1979. His father, Moses, was Chairman of this company from 1969 to 1975. In 1979, he became an attorney for the Illinois-based G. D. Searle. In 1982, he became CEO and Chairman of the NutraSweet subsidiary. The FDA approved aspartame's use in soft drinks in November 1983, and Pepsi was among the first brands to deploy the product on a large scale in the United States. When G. D. Searle was acquired by Monsanto in 1985, Shapiro moved up the management chain in the ladder, becoming Vice President in 1990, President in 1993 and CEO in 1995.