Mike Wheatley is the Managing Director of Asia Pacific. In addition to his management responsibilities in Asia and Australia, he remains an active search consultant, focusing particularly on clients in the consumer goods and agribusiness industries, at senior executive and board levels.

Mike has held chief executive officer positions with two major multinational consumer goods companies in Australia and Asia, in a career covering general management, strategic consulting and marketing. Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, he was managing director of Bunge for Australia and Asia.

Mike spent 17 years with the Mars Group, beginning in 1971 in the U.K., and moved to Australia in 1974 to Uncle Ben's of Australia. He was general manager of Mars Asia in 1985 (based in Hong Kong), and general manager of Uncle Ben's from 1985 to 1988.

Mike was a co-founder and founding board member of the Australian Food and Grocery Council, which was created in 1995. He has a Master of Arts (honours) in modern languages from Cambridge University.