Mark Wanner isn’t your typical entrepreneur.
He grew up in the Amish community, has no formal business training, and says his education only “goes to the seventh-and-a-half-grade.”
He’s a construction industry guy, but gambled his entire career to diversify into the car wash industry five years ago. And despite starting his business journey in Reed City 75 miles south of Traverse City, Wanner absolutely belongs on any list of up-and-coming business leaders in the Cherry Capital, thanks to his ambitious plans to buy and run no fewer than 50 companies throughout northern Michigan.
Wanner is likely best-known locally as the …
