Wes Wheeler

Wes Wheeler is an accomplished business executive and five-time CEO with extensive global experience in the healthcare industry.

About

After spending decades fixing other businesses, Wheeler has shifted his focus to Board work and advising private equity firms. He and his wife have restarted his family’s boat business, the Wheeler Yacht Company, breathing life back into the company responsible for building Pilar, the vessel where Ernest Hemingway penned The Old Man & the Sea.

Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife Marianne, Wes enjoys yachting and spending time with his two kids. They have two adult children who both recently married. Greg and his wife, Natalie, live in Newport Beach, California. Erica and her husband, Josh Kule, live and work in London, United Kingdom.

Published Book

The Turnaround Leader

Rebuilding Great Organizations in the Face of Adversity

I see that my purpose—my love—is fixing things. Families, after my dad left. Businesses, struggling to survive. Boats, deserving of glory instead of ashes. Wes Wheeler has spent his life fixing things. From a young age, the New York native witnessed the decline of his family’s multi-generational boat business, watching…

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