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John Mackey
Whole Foods Market

John Mackey

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, has led the natural and organic grocer to a $15 billion Fortune 500 company with more than 465 stores and 87,000 team members in three countries. The company has been included on Fortune magazine’s“100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 19 consecutive years and ranked first in the food and drug store industry as part of the magazine’s “Most Admired Companies” list in 2016. While devoting his career to helping shoppers satisfy their lifestyle needs with quality natural and organic foods, Mackey has also focused on building a more conscious way of doing business. He was the visionary for Whole Planet Foundation to help end poverty in developing nations, the Local Producer Loan Program to help local food producers expand their businesses, the Global Animal Partnership’s rating scale for humane farm animal treatment, and the Health Starts Here initiative to promote health and wellness. Mackey has been recognized as one of Fortune's "World's 50 Greatest Leaders," Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year Overall Winner for the United States,” Institutional Investor’s “Best CEO in America,” Barron’s “World’s Best CEO,” MarketWatch’s “CEO of the Year,” Fortune’s “Businessperson of the Year,” and Esquire’s “Most Inspiring CEO.”

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