Decision Maker

John Mackey

CEO of Whole Foods Market

John Mackey is an American businessman and writer best known as the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market. Under his leadership, Whole Foods has grown from a single store in Austin, Texas, in 1980 to an international corporation with locations across North America and the United Kingdom. He is a champion of natural and organic foods, and the firm commitment to sustainability and his company's health conscious ethos have brought about major changes in the supermarket industry. In addition to his work at Whole Foods, Mackey is co-author of a bestselling book on business ethics, "Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business".