Reinvent Yourself and Change Your Life for the Better with Mark Whitacre

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Whitacre is Executive Director of t-factor of Coca Cola Consolidated, Inc. Mark was most recently Chief Operating Officer (COO) of CBMC, an organization that has impacted his life greatly the past two decades. Mark was an executive at CBMC from 2013 to 2020. From 2006 to 2013, he was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Science Officer at Cypress Systems, Inc., a California biotechnology company. His undercover work with the FBI during the ADM scandal was the inspiration for the major motion picture, "The Informant," starring Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre.</span></p> <p><strong>Story about Mark (04:12)</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">I was 32 years old- half my life ago</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">I became addicted to the CEO lifestyle</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Great company- but bad leadership</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>The informant  (8:01)</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">My wife is the whistleblower, and I’m just the informant</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">She convinced me to do the right thing</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">I have 2 choices to be arrested or informant (wear a wire)</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>The Downfall (13:01)</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">I was so worried about money as no one will hire me after this </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">My personal and professional hits rock bottom- to the point of wanting to end my life</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">I was sentenced 8 years in prison instead of 6 mo