Dr. Mark Whitacre is an Ivy League Ph.D. and the highest-ranked executive of any Fortune 500 company to become a whistleblower in US history, and is responsible for uncovering the ADM price-fixing scandal in the early 1990's. Since December of 2006, he has been the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Science Officer at Cypress Systems, Inc. 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. Mark is a Marketplace Ambassador for CBMC, an organization that has impacted his life greatly the past two decades. CBMC is a group of men in the marketplace living out their faith in authentic relationships. Mark and his wife, Ginger, have three grown children.