Justin P-V Shapiro

Beloved grandson, son("the finest son any father could aspire to have")and father of Penelope Annella, during his marriage to Ashley Shapiro, nee Rothman, Justin Philip-Vincent Shapiro passed away peacefully on May 30, 2024, at age 43, one day shy of his 44th birthday. He was born on May 31, 1980, to Jerrold and Annella Shapiro at the Prentice Maternity Center in Chicago and resided his entire life on the Near North side of downtown Chicago. Possessed of an always curious and sharp intellect, and a wry,ironic sense of humor, he graduated from the Latin School of Chicago in 1998 where he founded the Investment Club and starred on the baseball team. In 2002 he graduated from Pitzer College, a member of the Claremont consortium of colleges located in Claremont, California, with a major in economics. And he then entered the world of finance as a treasury bond trader at Trans Market Group, LLC. During that time he also attained his MBA degree from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business in 2011 with a concentration in finance. As an aside and testimony to his always inquisitive,tenacious intellect, he taught himself computer code while always watching his beloved Chicago Bulls in his leisure time. In the last few years, he was employed as a finance executive for an up and coming corporate startup assembling,constructing, and packaging portfolios of single family homes for rental. When he wasn't diligently and conscientiously working on this project, he was a dedicated family man and devoted father to his baby daughter, and a loyal,committed and always a "great,good friend" to his broad network of lifetime friends, entitled the Stalwarts, who returned that affection in kind, and were the distinguished everpresent support group who reciprocated that loyalty and kindness exponentially during his illness. Mr. Shapiro was interred with his paternal grandparents at Westlawn Cemetery & Mausoleum on June 3rd with assistance provided by Chicago Jewish Funerals. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to BrainUp.ngo in honor of his memory and legacy.